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.
Tag: sustaining peace
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The Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland, Mr. Simon Coveney, discusses sustaining peace, his country’s hope to work on resolving ever-changing conflicts, and the current reform efforts of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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Does the secretary-general’s plan generate confidence that the UN will now be capable of winning and sustaining peace? Are the changes to organizational structures bold enough?
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Researchers from the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4) at Columbia University share their views on the science of sustaining peace and its implications for the ongoing work of the United Nations.
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While there are exciting developments on sustaining peace issues, important questions remain: what can be done that has not been tried before? And, vitally, how to ensure national actors—states and societies—are steadfastly in the driver’s seat of action?
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While North Korea’s missile program, the shift in US policy in the international arena, and the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Yemen occupied the attention of news media in 2017, Global Observatory readership was dominated by articles on the UN.
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In a conflict marked by incessant violence and a lack of political will—armed groups are present in 14 of the16 country’s provinces —United Nations officers often get trapped in a vicious circle of negativity that makes it extremely difficult to apply the new UN “sustaining peace” approach and transform conflict dynamics in a constructive manner.
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The Gambia’s fragile transition since national elections in January this year provide considerable room for studying and responding to the root causes of conflict by pursuing both peace and development in a holistic manner.
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What is somewhat worrying is the fact that there still is an ongoing debate over what is meant by “sustainable peace.”
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Evaluations of DDR programming identify reintegration as the most challenging aspect of the process; disarmament and demobilization are seen as easier—both to implement and to monitor—precisely because they are technical tasks, carried out over a relatively short and well-defined timeline.