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Author: Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

by Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

Andrea Ó Súilleabháin is a Research Fellow at the International Peace Institute.
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  • How Can Peace Agreements Protect Children? Q&A with Eva Smets

    February 17, 2017by Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

    Eva Smets, Executive Director of Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, discusses ways of ensuring peace agreements focus on the protection of children.

    Interviewsamericas, peace-processes
  • Investing in Inclusion: Women, Peace, and Development in Africa

    November 7, 2016by Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

    Where communities are affected by fragility, gender equality becomes critical to violence prevention.

    Analysisafrica, women-peace-and-security
  • With New Resolutions, Sustaining Peace Sits at Heart of UN Architecture

    April 29, 2016by Youssef Mahmoud and Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

    During the General Assembly debate following the adoption of the resolution, most member states hailed the conceptual shift from peacebuilding to sustaining peace as transformative and forward-looking.

    Analysispeacebuilding, united-nations
  • Where Do Women Fit in Sri Lanka’s Transition? Q&A with Visaka Dharmadasa

    November 10, 2015by Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

    Visaka Dharmadasa, Founder and Chair of the Association of War Affected Women, speaks about Sri Lanka’s political transition and the role of women in building peace in the country.

    Interviewsasia, peace-processes
  • Toward a “50-50 Planet” of Gender Equality: Q&A with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

    July 9, 2015by Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

    Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka discusses progress on women’s empowerment.

    Interviewsunited-nations, women-peace-and-security
  • Women’s Rights Find Success and Pushback: Q&A with Anne Marie Goetz

    May 18, 2015by Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

    Anne Marie Goetz, Clinical Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, discusses progress on women’s rights during the past two decades.

    Interviewsunited-nations, women-peace-and-security
  • ISIS “Not a Passing Fad”: Q&A with Mahmoud Mohamedou

    April 20, 2015by Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

    Mahmoud Mohamedou, Deputy Director of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, discusses the difficulty in developing a proactive counterterrorism strategy against groups such as the Islamic State.

    Interviewsterrorism, transnational-organized-crime
  • Benefits Spread When Women Keep the Peace: Q&A with Saisuree Chutikul

    April 7, 2015by Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

    Dr. Saisuree Chutikul said research has shown there are many benefits to increasing the involvement of women in peacekeeping, particularly when it comes to dealing with other women.

    Interviewspeacekeeping, women-peace-and-security
  • Overlooked Among 50 Million Displaced Worldwide, Women and Girls Lose Out

    October 22, 2014by Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

    Women affected by forced displacement still struggle to access the most basic services, but some initiatives offer useful lessons for the UN and NGO communities.

    Interviewshumanitarian, women-peace-and-security
  • Transforming Peacebuilding: Can the Internationals Put the Locals First?

    September 12, 2014by Andrea Ó Súilleabháin

    International NGOs still struggle to achieve ‘local ownership’ in peacebuilding, but a new approach is working on putting local people in the lead.

    Interviewsdevelopment, peacebuilding
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  • One Crisis, Multiple Norms: Strengthening Human Protection in Mali and the Sahel

    June 17, 2022by Adrian Gallagher, Charles T. Hunt and Blake Lawrinson

    The UN Security Council does not have the luxury of choosing between normative imperatives associated with preventing atrocities, protecting civilians, and countering terrorism in Mali, the Sahel, and elsewhere.

    Analysispeacekeeping, sahel
  • Peacebuilding Financing in Guinea-Bissau and Lessons for Overlooked Countries

    June 3, 2022by Gustavo de Carvalho

    Despite the instability it faces, Guinea-Bissau—alongside countries like Madagascar, Chad, or the Central African Republic—has long been overlooked by donors. There is an urgent need to re-orientate the international community toward supporting and financing conflict prevention and early action.

    Analysisafrica, peacebuilding, united-nations

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  • The Role of Peacekeepers in Protecting Civilians from Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

    May 25, 2022by Jenna Russo

    There are a number of reasons why it is difficult for peacekeepers to protect civilians from sexual and gender-based violence, particularly those forms that fall outside of conflict-related sexual violence.

    Analysispeacekeeping, protection-of-civilians, women-peace-and-security
  • Protecting Peace? How the Protection of Civilians Contributes to Peace Processes

    May 23, 2022by Jenna Russo

    Without a corresponding political process, UN protection activities are an ineffective bandaid in situations of widespread violence.

    Analysispeacekeeping, protection-of-civilians
  • Russia, NATO, and International Organizations

    May 23, 2022by Kseniya Oksamytna

    As Finland and Sweden begin the process of applying for NATO membership, misleading narratives about the role of NATO’s so-called eastward expansion in “provoking” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continue to hold sway.

    Analysisconflict, eastern-europe
  • Sanctions and the Costs of Russia’s War in Ukraine

    May 12, 2022by Erica Moret

    The sanctions imposed against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine mark a new page in global sanctions practice yet lessons from earlier cases could help increase efficacy and minimize costs.

    Analysisconflict, europe, ukraine
  • A4P+ and Uniformed Women’s Participation in Peacekeeping

    April 26, 2022by Gretchen Baldwin and Jake Sherman

    The UN, in its implementation of A4P+, must address the heavily masculine, exclusionary, and militarized structures which often preclude women (and anyone outside of a very particular gendered profile) from deploying.

    Analysisa4p, peacekeeping, women-peace-and-security
  • Despite Constraints, MINUSMA Remains the Legitimate International Partner to Mali

    April 21, 2022by Rida Lyammouri

    Facing its most difficult period since its inception in April 2013, MINUSMA, and the Security Council, now need to acknowledge that their biggest problems in Mali are political.

    Analysisafrica, mali, peacekeeping
  • While Afghans Wait, States and Banks Decrypt the Humanitarian Exception in the Taliban Sanctions Regime

    April 14, 2022by Agathe Sarfati

    Amid mounting pressure to alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan, the United Nations Security Council took the rare step of creating a humanitarian exception for the 1988 Taliban sanctions regime.

    Analysisafghanistan, humanitarian
  • What Are the International Military Options for the Sahel?

    April 12, 2022by Nina Wilén and Paul D. Williams

    The complex, and not always coordinated, ecosystem of military operations across the Sahel has been aptly labeled a security traffic jam. Why are external forces in the Sahel? Can they help resolve any of the region’s crises? And, if so, what configuration of external forces makes the most sense?

    Analysismali, peacekeeping, sahel
  • The Benefits, Challenges, and Limitations of Criminalizing Ecocide

    March 30, 2022by Rachel Killean

    The campaign to introduce a new international crime of “ecocide” at the International Criminal Court is long-standing but has received increased support over the last couple of years.

    Analysisenvironment
  • Africa, Ukraine, and the New Geopolitics

    March 10, 2022by Rita Abrahamsen

    When the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the African vote split right down the middle. The vote must have sent shivers down the African Union’s spine.

    Analysisconflict, europe, united-nations
  • Putin’s “Peacekeepers”

    February 23, 2022by Paul D. Williams

    Putin has ordered Russian soldiers to conduct what he called “peacekeeping operations” in Donetsk and Luhansk, a clear violation of international law and a perversion of the important international concept of peacekeeping.

    Analysisconflict, europe
  • ECOWAS Sanctions Against Mali Necessary, but May Be Counter-Productive

    February 2, 2022by Festus Kofi Aubyn

    The new sanctions were triggered by months of growing tensions between ECOWAS and the military-dominated transitional government over the timetable for Mali’s return to civilian rule after two successful coups d’état.

    Analysisafrica, sanctions
  • Ugandan and Congolese Troops Are Conducting Joint Operations: What Could that Mean for MONUSCO?

    December 20, 2021by Daniel Levine-Spound

    The joint operations against the Allied Democratic Forces in the Beni territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo raise critical legal, operational, and reputational challenges for MONUSCO.

    Analysisafrica, peacekeeping
  • New Climate Data Visualizations, 2021

    December 15, 2021by Noemi Florea

    Noemi Florea has compiled some key data visualizations from 2021 for the Global Observatory that highlight progress on climate change, from expanded research on the global environment to emerging developments for climate adaptation.

    Further Readingclimate-change, climate2021
  • Is the Global Climate Governance System Working?

    November 23, 2021by Jimena Leiva Roesch, Julia Almeida Nobre, and Eimer Curtin

    In the wake of COP26, there is a need to examine the current structures and dynamics of global climate governance.

    Analysisclimate-change, climate2021
  • How Permafrost Thaw Puts the Russian Arctic at Risk

    November 22, 2021by Katarina Kertysova and Akash Ramnath

    Permafrost thaw presents a major challenge to Arctic communities and ecosystems and has enormous potential to accelerate climate change and its global impacts.

    Analysisclimate-change, climate2021
  • When Militarism Meets Gender Reform: Fixing the Contradictory Legacy of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in Afghanistan

    October 27, 2021by Zinab Attai and Sabrina Karim

    The prevention pillar of the WPS agenda focuses on preventing the root causes of war and violence. Efforts being made under the protection and participation pillars can fundamentally contradict the prevention pillar. Nowhere is this more visible than in Afghanistan.

    Analysiswomen-peace-and-security, wpsat21
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Counterterrorism and Peacekeeping in the Sahel

    July 20, 2021by Naureen Chowdhury Fink and Arthur Boutellis

    The end of Operation Barkhane will leave MINUSMA with a heavier burden in countering terrorism and violent extremism in the Sahel.

    Analysispeacekeeping, terrorism
  • Future of UN Peace Operations: UN Support Offices to Regional Counterterrorism Operations?

    July 7, 2021by John Karlsrud

    Experience from MINUSMA has shown that UN peace operations and counterterrorism are an uneasy match.

    Analysisctat20, peacekeeping
  • Preventing Violence or Harming Peace and Rights? What the UN Can Learn from Counterterrorism in the Philippines

    June 10, 2021by Aries Arugay, Marc Batac, and Jordan Street

    The roll-out of counterterrorism and P/CVE policies, plans, and projects in the Philippines is having a significant negative impact on peace, security, and the fulfillment of human rights in the country.

    Analysisctat20, terrorism

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