Last week the UN Security Council held its first debate on security sector reform (SSR) since 2007, and member states noted that the bulk of the international community’s assistance on SSR is directed to countries in Africa. Out of 11 UN missions mandated with SSR, 10 are in Africa.
Tag: statebuilding
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Using available data from the World Bank, UNDP, WHO, FAO, and Transparency International, this map highlights the most extreme cases of youth bulge, poverty, inequality, lack of education, poor public health, corruption, and food and water scarcity
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Over 40 polls have been conducted over the past five years in the Middle East, and an analysis of them provides an overview of public opinion across the region that might help explain the recent outbreaks of revolution and protest. The polls were conducted by a number of organizations including Charney Research in collaboration with […]
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On January 9, 2011, nearly 99% of the voting population of South Sudan voted to leave the North. As a result, on July 9, 2011, South Sudan became the world’s newest nation. It is the 54th sovereign nation in Africa, and the first one since Eritrea declared its independence from Ethiopia in 1993. The occasion […]
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Since January 2010, Dr. Ibrahim Gambari has been the Joint Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the African Union and the United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). He was interviewed at IPI on June 9th, 2011 by Francesco Mancini, Director of Research at the International Peace Institute.Francesco Mancini (FM): Let’s first talk about the […]
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Following the relatively peaceful referendum in which the people of South Sudan voted to form their own country and break away from the north, violence has returned to Sudan, particularly in Abyei, the disputed territory straddling north and south. On May 21st, Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) seized control of Abyei. This was a reaction to […]
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On June 15-16, a coalition of seventeen fragile states calling itself the “g7+” came together with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) members and multilateral donors in Monrovia, Liberia for the second meeting of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding. Born at the 2008 Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, the International […]