For peacekeeping, there is no escaping the digital revolution and transformation that is heading its way.
Analysis
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The global submarine cable network needs to be governed and protected, but it also has risks and vulnerabilities, and the potential to spur new forms of tensions and conflicts.
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Rather than start with the supply side (what the UN can offer) the initial question should start with the demand side (what does Afghanistan need).
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With the end of the withdrawal and evacuation from Afghanistan, two major issues confront US policy. First is how to meet mounting humanitarian needs and save the social development programs that have benefited Afghan women—one of the few positive outcomes of the intervention. The second is how to guard against Afghanistan becoming a haven for […]
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Neither local nor international politics are currently right for a UN peacekeeping deployment in Afghanistan.
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On the 9th of August, the United Nations Security Council held a high-level open debate on maritime security amid increasing urgency at the Council toward issues such as piracy, maritime terrorism, and other incidents at sea.
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Member states still agree on the need to counter terrorism in all its forms and manifestations with the sort of reinvigorated, networked multilateralism the Secretary-General called for during the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly.
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The end of Operation Barkhane will leave MINUSMA with a heavier burden in countering terrorism and violent extremism in the Sahel.
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Neither the Tigray conflict nor other similar ethnic-related armed conflicts will be resolved quickly.
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Experience from MINUSMA has shown that UN peace operations and counterterrorism are an uneasy match.
