As much as the report offers, and it certainly ticks all the boxes from the sustaining peace resolutions, there is too much in it that is left unsatisfyingly “to be determined.”
Analysis
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The winner of the presidential election’s second round on March 27 will have much to do to move the country ahead.
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The vast majority of published research on peace focuses on negative peace, or the elimination of overt forms of violence. What is also needed is the promotion, measurement, and tracking of those factors that foster peacefulness in societies.
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IDPs are among the most vulnerable people in the world, and the number of those fleeing violence and conflict in 2016 was estimated at 40.3 million. This is nearly double the number of refugees worldwide.
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Female domestic workers are perhaps the least protected workers in the Gulf, facing legal, institutional, and societal barriers to basic securities.
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The ambitious “Women, Peace, and Security Index” (WPS Index) makes up for the omission of gender inequality measures in conflict monitoring frameworks, state fragility analyses, political instability estimates, and various indicators from leading think tanks.
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The mass abduction in Dapchi on February 19 provides important insights on the trajectory of Boko Haram’s near decade-long insurgency against the Nigerian state.
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Climate change risks are directly related to the present scale of mitigation action. So what can we expect in the years ahead?
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“Hell on earth” is how UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres characterized the situation in eastern Ghouta this week.
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The Santos Cruz report has deepened the conversation around peacekeeper fatalities, while also reopening questions of whether UN peacekeepers are ready to act decisively in the face of direct attacks.
