Complex threats in places like the Sahel, Lake Chad Basin, Somalia, eastern DRC, and Northern Mozambique have led to ad-hoc security arrangements becoming a growing norm.
Author: Andrew E. Yaw Tchie
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Contrary to perceptions, there is compelling scientific evidence in the IPCC’s AR6 report that climate change constitutes a risk to peace and security.
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Pakistan could become a vanguard of climate resilience, but it faces tremendous hurdles.
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The conflict has been propped up by blame games, ineffective diplomacy, recurring geopolitical tensions and proxy warfare in the Great Lakes region, and the Congolese state’s weak commitment to addressing grievances that drive armed group proliferation.
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China will likely continue to shape peacekeeping along its preferences for a more technical and less overt political foreign policy tool.
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UN mission transitions still result in gaps in the protection of civilians experiencing violent conflict.
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Brad Cardinale, an ecologist who focuses on the conservation and restoration of biodiversity in natural systems discusses the scale and irreversibility of the biodiversity crisis.
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The political role of the UN may not have diminished overall, but shifted.
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One of the most enduring lessons learned over the past 75 years of peacekeeping is that peace cannot be imposed.
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This spring marks 75 years since the UN first deployed a peacekeeping mission. Here are some of the challenges peacekeeping is facing, and opportunities for the future.