This year marks the 25th anniversary of Resolution 1325 and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, presenting an opportunity to reenergize and recommit to the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda. In this article, the authors look at last year’s advancements in WPS, and what’s ahead in 2025.
Author: Evyn Papworth, Olivia Parsons, Phoebe Donnelly
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As climate threats escalate, the urgency of fostering genuine civil-military partnerships becomes clear. The challenge is to move beyond superficial collaboration to create genuine, sustained partnerships that transform both disaster response and the very concept of security.
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The fourth UN peacebuilding architecture review (PBAR) takes place this year, providing UN member states, UN entities, civil society, and other stakeholders with an opportunity to strengthen UN peacebuilding institutions. This article looks at what the review entails, and points to the five key issues likely to be debated.
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As we enter 2025 at a tumultuous time, it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture, and of what is required from all of us to create a world that works for all. The UN Declaration on Future Generations encourages present-day decision-makers at the national and international levels to be good ancestors to those that follow. If properly nurtured, good ancestorship could become an overarching framework towards operationalizing some of the principles and commitments of the Declaration.
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In December 2022, the UN Security Council adopted the landmark Resolution 2664, creating a cross-cutting humanitarian carve-out for asset freezes under all UN sanctions regimes. Earlier this month, the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2761, extending the application of the carve-out to the 1267 ISIL/al-Qaida counterterrorism regime indefinitely—a resolution that is just as significant.
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There is a strong argument to be made that enduring failures to effectively integrate disarmament into the WPS agenda at the UN Security Council mean that it is now timely to redirect feminist efforts away from the council and toward the General Assembly. In particular, this institutional shift is essential for advancing feminist disarmament objectives through the WPS agenda.
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Based on interviews with UN delegates and independent experts, as well as the analysis of voting patterns and UN meeting records, the authors’ new study examines the G77’s internal decision-making processes and how these shape the group’s contributions to global dialogue or “effective multilateralism.”
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ATMIS will end on December 31, 2024, and be replaced by a new African Union Stabilization and Support Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM). United Nations Security Council approval will have to be given this month to meet the changeover deadline. Yet the new force is unlikely to significantly degrade the long-term threat al-Shabaab poses. al-Shabaab is stronger than generally perceived and may be in a position to achieve significant large-scale success.
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In June, Kenyan police began deploying to Haiti as part of a Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission aimed at helping restore security in the country. The mission faces a daunting task. In this interview, Gloria Blaise, Director of Research Development at Haïti Policy House, discusses how the MSS mission has been received so far in Haiti and how the mission could build trust with Haitian communities.
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In this interview with Albert Trithart, Pascal Kambale, a Congolese researcher and human rights lawyer based in Goma, helps unpack the complex array of security actors present in the eastern DRC and how they are perceived by local Congolese.
