Efforts to translate climate and environmental-related mandates into policies and practices are a work in progress, and can benefit from ongoing learning, monitoring, and adaptation.
Author: Cedric de Coning
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A shift to people-centered peace operations implies moving away from a narrow focus on state-building, institutional capacity, and the extension of state authority.
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Some new practices are specific to the pandemic and will change over time, while others are likely to be more lasting.
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Significant reductions and changes in the way peace operations function may be needed over the coming months.
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Despite the positive conclusions of statistical studies, not enough is known about how peace operations contribute to reducing violence and sustaining peace in specific cases.
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To understand peacebuilding, it is important to draw out lessons and identify how the A4P initiative can apply them to aspects of peacekeeping.
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Now is an ideal time to take stock of how the concept of sustaining peace has developed since it was adopted and assess the challenges to its implementation.
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As a young South African diplomat during the apartheid-to-democracy transition, Cedric de Coning witnessed the humility and power of a flawed statesman.
