According to Saba Ismail, co-founder and Executive Director of Aware Girls—a youth-led organization working for women’s empowerment and gender equality in Pakistan—young women are in turn the group most excluded from peacebuilding.
Tag: peacebuilding
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The UN’s new resolution on youth, peace, and security is not without its flaws in terms of guiding future policy. A potential major issue is that it sets the age range of youth as 18-24 years of age.
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Head of the UN High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO), José Ramos-Horta, discusses the challenges of peace operations reform.
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Local government can play a vital role in supporting the development of social cohesion, the capacity for collective action that enables societies to mediate conflict before it turns violent.
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Developing solid institutions of governance and capacities to promote development requires timelines expressed not in years, but in decades.
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International NGOs still struggle to achieve ‘local ownership’ in peacebuilding, but a new approach is working on putting local people in the lead.
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In her new book Peaceland, Séverine Autesserre argues that the failings of peacebuilding are caused by the habits and everyday practices of foreign interveners.
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While often overlooked, Kabbah played a central role in keeping his countrymen committed to peace and avoiding the pitfalls of other African countries emerging from conflict.
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The withdrawal of the UN mission is an important indicator that peacebuilding is now more in the hands of Sierra Leone nationals, and there is a lot of work still to be done.
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To bring more women into peacebuilding, they need to be encouraged to stand up and take on leadership positions in every sphere of their lives, said Akinyi Walender of Cordaid.