The Russian government-affiliated Wagner Group has gained widespread attention for its brutal tactics in the Central African Republic and Mali.
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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.
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A stable peace deal requires the support of the Ukrainian people for both legal and political reasons.
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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.
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Survey data does not reveal a major, widespread drop in the UN’s legitimacy over the past few years.
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Voters in Africa’s largest democracy will go to the polls to pick a new president on Feb. 25, 2023.
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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.
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2023 could be a good year for advancing climate-related issues in the United Nations Security Council.
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The UN General Assembly’s COE Working Group has a fork-in-the-road opportunity to advance UN Peacekeeping’s environmental goals.
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The UN should consider both the successes of the whole-of-mission approach and the pitfalls of its ever-burgeoning understanding of PoC.