Left unaddressed, painful legacies of past political violence will continue to infiltrate the institutions, processes, and assumptions that inform definitions of peace and approaches to sustaining peace.
Author: Youssef Mahmoud
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On September 8th, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/76/305 on financing for peacebuilding. At a first glance, this four-page document appears to be a reiteration of previously agreed text on peacebuilding financing which can be easily found in the 2016 twin resolutions on peacebuilding and sustaining peace; in the subsequent ones in […]
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The African continent has a rich and varied repertoire of formal and informal capacities, knowledge, and experiences to decolonize the study and practice of peace and develop an integrated African agenda for sustaining peace.
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Collective system leadership has enabled some countries to successfully manage the onslaught and debilitating consequences of COVID-19, an approach that could also be usefully applied to situations where attempts to build and sustain peace have failed.
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A world that seems unmoored and in disarray has undeniable implications for the UN’s work, particularly in the area of peace and security.
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Much has been written about leaders, about peace, and most recently about peace leadership, but little about leadership for sustaining peace.
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A number of developments have emerged over the past few years indicating that the WPS agenda is under stress, if not in peril.
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En juillet 2017, la Conférence des chefs d’État et de gouvernement de l’Union africaine (UA) a établi le Réseau des médiatrices africaines, couramment appelé FemWise-Africa, afin de renforcer le rôle des femmes dans la prévention et la médiation des conflits. La place donnée au réseau FemWise-Africa dans l’Architecture africaine de paix et de sécurité (APSA), […]
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FemWise-Africa has an ambitious agenda which, in order to implement, will require challenging some of the foundational assumptions of mediation.
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A key question at this stage is how the gaps in the peacebuilding paradigm can best be addressed to foster greater ownership and effective implementation of the emerging concept of “sustaining peace.”
