The adoption of the principles of “sustaining peace” within the UN system should clearly position food security as a sine qua non condition of achieving peace.
Tag: peace and security
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Despite its relatively small cost, the scheme requires international support, particularly given plans to roll it out across Mogadishu’s 17 districts.
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Too many states and peoples have responded to problems by unilaterally using force or by turning inward, building barriers instead of bridges, and stifling dissent, under the guise of fighting external threats.
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Good governance in Haiti’s security and justice system could inoculate against a return to authoritarianism.
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Three major peace and security reviews conducted in 2015 have taken stock of the changing global environment; analyzed UN responses; and come up with several key policy messages, as well as a number of complementary recommendations which, if implemented, could help the UN peace and security architecture be better fit for purpose.
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While 2015 saw Sub-Saharan Africa overcoming a number of important challenges, it also saw the continuation and often the creation of social, political, and economic obstacles that will define the continent’s security outlook in 2016.
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IPI Senior Adviser Francesco Mancini offers four broad lessons from 2015 than can guide the conduct of global diplomacy in years to come.
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Lebanon’s security providers are connected through a web of overlapping arrangements, in which the boundaries between public and private identities of agents blur.
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While an enhanced security presence is undoubtedly needed to bolster international forces and keep the militias in check, rearming CAR’s armed forces is laden with risk.
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How can you have development without peace, when in many countries, “people are worried about the safety of their life and limb, of their property,” asks Nikhil Seth, former head of the Secretariat for the intergovernmental negotiations that created the United Nations’ goals for achieving sustainable development around the world.