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Author: Maureen Quinn

by Maureen Quinn

Maureen Quinn is Senior Director of Programs at the International Peace Institute.
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  • Interview with Visaka Dharmadasa on War-Affected Women in Sri Lanka

    March 21, 2013by Maureen Quinn

    Violence against women is one of the biggest challenges the police faces in Sri Lanka.

    Interviewsasia, women-peace-and-security
  • Lebanon’s Rita Sabat: Women’s Rights Should Be a Foreign Policy Priority

    March 18, 2013by Maureen Quinn

    Dr. Sabat discusses what is limiting women’s participation in political transitions in the Middle East.

    Interviewsmiddle-east, women-peace-and-security
  • Interview with Parisa Kakaee, Iranian Women and Children’s Rights Activist

    March 15, 2013by Maureen Quinn

    Sanctions against Iran leads to increases in violence against women, though activists are trying to change that.

    Interviewsiran, middle-east, women-peace-and-security
  • Interview with Richard Caplan on Exit Strategies and State Building

    December 10, 2012by Maureen Quinn

    The Oxford professor and editor of a new book on exit strategies discusses the history of exits and the role of regional dynamics.

    Interviewsstatebuilding
  • Interview with Two Principals from the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Justice Fisher and Registrar Mansaray

    October 17, 2012by Maureen Quinn

    Two principals from the all-woman Special Court discuss finding postconflict justice for victims of gender-based crimes in Sierra Leone.

    Interviewsafrica, justice
  • Mutual Accountability: The Challenge in Afghanistan

    July 16, 2012by Maureen Quinn

    The Tokyo Framework launched July 8 in Afghanistan is the latest example of an attempt at mutual accountability.

    Analysiscentral-asia, statebuilding
  • Afghanistan: Political Dialogue in the Shadow of Violence and Insecurity

    May 10, 2012by Maureen Quinn

    Dialogue among Afghans, including the Taliban, has not yet started, and facts on the ground are working against it. But small steps are occurring.

    Analysiscentral-asia, conflict, fragile-states
  • Interview with Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Executive Committee Member, PLO

    March 30, 2012by Maureen Quinn

    Dr. Ashrawi discusses steps to reach peace with Israel and the impact of the Arab uprisings on the process.

    Interviewsconflict, middle-east
  • Interview with Paul Holtom, Director of the Arms Transfers Program at SIPRI

    March 29, 2012by Maureen Quinn

    Mr. Holtom discusses potential destabilizing trends in the arms trade and the variety of factors driving sales in the five major import countries, all in Asia.

    Interviewsconflict, resources
  • Interview with Kai Eide, Former SRSG for Afghanistan

    January 27, 2012by Maureen Quinn

    “Peace in Afghanistan cannot be made by the international community,” Amb. Eide said. “It has to be made by the Afghans themselves.”

    Interviewscentral-asia, conflict, fragile-states, united-nations
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  • Wagner Group Poses Fundamental Challenges for the Protection of Civilians by UN Peacekeeping Operations

    March 20, 2023by Dirk Druet

    The Russian government-affiliated Wagner Group has gained widespread attention for its brutal tactics in the Central African Republic and Mali.

    Analysisafrica, peacekeeping, protection-of-civilians
  • Addressing Gender Bias to Achieve Ethical AI

    March 17, 2023by Ardra Manasi, Subadra Panchanadeswaran, and Emily Sours

    For AI to be ethical and be a vehicle for the common good, it needs to eliminate any explicit and implicit biases, including on the gender front.

    Analysistechnology

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  • Future Peace Deal Not Just About Putin, Zelensky: Ukrainian People Get a Voice and a Vote

    March 8, 2023by William Partlett

    A stable peace deal requires the support of the Ukrainian people for both legal and political reasons.

    Analysisconflict, eastern-europe, peace-processes
  • Thinking Globally about the War in Ukraine: Three Takeaways from Munich

    March 3, 2023by Adam Lupel and Jenna Russo

    The war in Ukraine has demonstrated the solidarity of the international community, yet there is real work to be done to strengthen solidarity across regions.

    Analysiseurope, multilateralism, peace-and-security
  • Do People Trust the UN? A Look at the Data

    February 22, 2023by Albert Trithart and Olivia Case

    Survey data does not reveal a major, widespread drop in the UN’s legitimacy over the past few years.

    Analysismultilateralism, united-nations
  • Economy and Security on the Ballot in Nigeria’s Presidential Election: 5 Things to Watch

    February 17, 2023by Carl LeVan

    Voters in Africa’s largest democracy will go to the polls to pick a new president on Feb. 25, 2023.

    Analysisafrica, peace-and-security
  • After Agreement in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region, What Stands in the Way of Lasting Peace? 

    February 7, 2023by Hilary Matfess and Anne Lauder

    A peace deal between Tigrayan forces and the Ethiopian government signed in November 2022 raised hopes that the war in northern Ethiopia—one of the world’s deadliest conflicts in recent years—was finally drawing to a close.

    Analysisafrica, conflict, peace-processes
  • Climate Change in the Security Council: What New Council Members Can Achieve in 2023

    January 30, 2023by Adam Day, Janani Vivekananda, and Grazia Pacillo

    2023 could be a good year for advancing climate-related issues in the United Nations Security Council.

    Analysisclimate-change, peace-and-security, security-council
  • How Negotiations on Contingent-Owned Equipment Can Help “Green” UN Peacekeeping

    January 20, 2023by Emmanuelle Cousin and Daniel Forti 

    The UN General Assembly’s COE Working Group has a fork-in-the-road opportunity to advance UN Peacekeeping’s environmental goals.

    Analysisclimate-change, peacekeeping
  • How Useful Are the UN’s Broad Protection of Civilian Mandates?

    January 18, 2023by Alexander Gilder

    The UN should consider both the successes of the whole-of-mission approach and the pitfalls of its ever-burgeoning understanding of PoC.

    Analysispeacekeeping, protection-of-civilians
  • Investing in People and Enhancing Resilience for Sustaining Peace with Adaptive Peacebuilding

    January 17, 2023by Cedric de Coning, Rui Saraiva and Ako Muto

    Context-specific approaches to peacebuilding that empower local agency are key to the self-sustainability of peace processes.

    Analysispeacebuilding, sustaining-peace
  • Does the UN Need a More Coherent Approach Toward “De Facto” Authorities?

    January 6, 2023by Damian Lilly

    As a result of shifting dynamics in certain conflicts, as well as recent coups, the UN is having to engage with de facto authorities in a growing number of country contexts.

    Analysisunited-nations
  • Milestone in the Security Council: What the New Humanitarian “Carve-out” Means for UN Sanctions Regimes

    December 16, 2022by Naureen Chowdhury Fink and Agathe Sarfati 

    Last week,  the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 2664, a cross-cutting humanitarian carve-out for all UN sanctions regimes–including the 1267 ISIL/al-Qaida regime–to safeguard the timely and effective conduct of humanitarian activities.

    Analysishumanitarian, security-council, terrorism
  • The East African Community Steps into the Crisis in the DRC. Will It Help?

    December 12, 2022by Jenna Russo

    While the current crisis is unlikely to be resolved without military force, any hope for success requires that operations remain closely tied to a political process, and that neighboring countries remain accountable to support the security and sovereignty of the DRC.

    Analysisafrica, conflict
  • The Case for Integrating Sustaining Peace into an Expanded Climate, Peace and Security Concept

    November 23, 2022by Cedric de Coning and Hafsa M. Maalim

    Actions to address the effects of climate challenges can contribute to sustaining peace, while peacebuilding initiatives can, at times, also strengthen the capacity of communities to adapt to climate change.

    Analysisclimate2022, climate-change, sustaining-peace
  • The Securitization of Gender: A Primer

    October 11, 2022by Gretchen Baldwin and Taylor Hynes

    WPS advocates must not allow gender to be instrumentalized within hypermasculine, hypermilitarized, and over-securitized approaches to security.

    Analysiswomen-peace-and-security, wpsat22
  • Countering Right-wing Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Is There a Role For the UN?

    August 23, 2022by Naureen Chowdhury Fink & Michaela Millender

    The UN counterterrorism architecture was written broadly though its application has been largely focused on two groups: al-Qaeda and Daesh. With transnational dimensions growing in right-wing terrorism, is there a role for international organizations like the UN?

    Analysisterrorism, united-nations
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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