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Tag: women peace and security

  • Safeguarding Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Fish Market Dhaka
    December 10, 2020by Joshua Wimpey, Markus Goldstein, Paula Gonzalez Martinez and Sreelakshmi Papineni

    COVID-19 has put all progress towards women’s empowerment made so far at risk.

    Analysiscoronavirus, women peace and security
  • Making Implementation of the WPS Agenda Possible: Q&A with Madeleine Rees

    Madeleine Rees
    October 29, 2020by Gretchen Baldwin

    Madeleine Rees, secretary-general of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, discusses the state of the WPS agenda and lessons for the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Interviewswomen peace and security, WPSat20
  • Beyond “Women and Children”: Gendered Community Engagement Strategies in UN Peace Operations

    Women Peacekeepers MINUSCA
    October 28, 2020by Gretchen Baldwin

    Understanding the historical use of female engagement teams in peacekeeping will be critical as the UN standardizes its approach to and justification for using engagement platoons.

    Analysiswomen peace and security, WPSat20
  • Using Local Action Plans as Pathways to Inclusive Peace and Security

    Women Representatives
    October 26, 2020by Katelyn Jones

    Local Action Plans have the potential to ignite lasting, creative, and meaningful change at the community-level.

    Analysiswomen peace and security, WPSat20
  • Women, Peace, and Victimhood

    Women's rights activists
    October 22, 2020by Roxani Krystalli

    Taking victimhood seriously requires moving away from a view of it as always synonymous with vulnerability or lack of agency, or as entirely reduced to the experience of victimization.

    Analysiswomen peace and security, WPSat20
  • Encouraging Generosity and Inclusivity for a Feminist Implementation of WPS: Q&A with Dr. Toni Haastrup

    Oromia Coffee Worker
    October 21, 2020by Jasmine Jaghab

    Dr. Haastrup discusses how feminism, generosity, and inclusion can strengthen the implementation of WPS.

    Interviewswomen peace and security, WPSat20
  • Improving the Relationship Between WPS and CVE Policies

    IDP Mosul
    October 20, 2020by Phoebe Donnelly

    WPS practitioners and policymakers have real concerns about the ways in which P/CVE policies could harm women.

    Analysiswomen peace and security, WPSat20
  • Masculinities, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, and the WPS Agenda

    UNSC Sexual Violence Debate
    October 19, 2020by Ibrahim Bahati

    While it is true that women make up of the majority of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) victims, the widely accepted definition is narrow and often excludes other types of gender-based violence.

    Analysiswomen peace and security, WPSat20
  • Dissolving Interagency Silos: The WPS Agenda on the Disaster-Conflict Continuum

    Hurricane Delta
    October 15, 2020Taylor Hynes and Punam Yadav

    There has been an increase in UN agency discourse on gender, conflict, and climate. However, these concepts are still treated as discreet phenomenon in practice.

    Analysiswomen peace and security, WPSat20
  • Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Women’s Economic Opportunity

    Free Food Pandemic
    October 14, 2020by Jasmine Jaghab

    Less discussed in WPS is the connection between the economic empowerment of women and security.

    Analysiswomen peace and security, WPSat20
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  • “Downsizing Survivor Syndrome” in UN Peace Operations

    January 19, 2021by Katharina P. Coleman

    To preserve mission productivity, the UN must do more to avoid downsizing survivor syndrome in its peace operations.

    Analysispeacekeeping
  • The Roots of Pre-Election Carnage by Ugandan Security Forces

    January 15, 2021by Sylvie Namwase

    It is time for Uganda to enact laws in keeping with international standards and redefine the relationship between police and military during law enforcement.

    Analysisafrica, elections

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  • 2020 Editor’s Choice: Global Observatory Must Reads

    December 23, 2020by the Global Observatory

    The editors have assembled some of 2020’s “must read” articles that were not about the pandemic, noteworthy either for their analysis, topic, timeliness, and/or popularity.

    Further Reading
  • Rising Numbers Flee Ethiopia as Internal Conflict Persists

    December 21, 2020by Ilhan Dahir

    The conflict in Ethiopia has already claimed many lives and led to a major new displacement flow in the East Africa region.

    Analysisafrica, refugees
  • Safeguarding Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    December 10, 2020by Joshua Wimpey, Markus Goldstein, Paula Gonzalez Martinez and Sreelakshmi Papineni

    COVID-19 has put all progress towards women’s empowerment made so far at risk.

    Analysiscoronavirus, women peace and…
  • Renewed Scrutiny of Citizenship Laws in the Gulf in COVID-19 Era

    December 8, 2020by Dalya Al Alawi

    While the pandemic continues its march through the region, movements to change discriminatory citizenship laws have gained strength.

    Analysiscoronavirus, middle east
  • With Multilateral Efforts Bypassed in Nagorno-Karabakh, OSCE Struggles to Find Role

    December 3, 2020by Stephanie Liechtenstein

    The ceasefire deal confirmed geopolitical realities and further strengthened Russian influence in the region, with Turkey also having a foot in the door.

    Analysisasia, frozen conflict…
  • Empowering “We the Peoples” in the UN’s 75th Year

    December 2, 2020Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu and Michaela Millender

    The UN75 report produced ten key findings that highlighted what respondents felt were both immediate and long-term priorities.

    Analysisunited nations
  • Advancing Climate-Sensitive Strategies in UN Field Operations

    November 24, 2020by Pushkar M. Sharma

    The devastating effects of the climate crisis underscore why UN peace operations and special political missions must advance climate-sensitive strategies.

    Analysisclimate change, climate2020
  • How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Curb Deforestation in the Amazon?

    November 23, 2020by Adriana Erthal Abdenur

    Some of the most promising innovations for enhancing the monitoring of forests involve artificial intelligence.

    Analysisclimate change, climate2020
  • The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Peace and Conflict

    October 23, 2020by Katariina Mustasilta

    What happened to the pandemic being a catalyst for peaceful processes?

    Analysiscoronavirus, peace and secur…
  • Masculinities, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, and the WPS Agenda

    October 19, 2020by Ibrahim Bahati

    While it is true that women make up of the majority of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) victims, the widely accepted definition is narrow and often excludes other types of gender-based violence.

    Analysiswomen peace and…, WPSat20
  • Reflections on the Future of Peacekeeping Operations

    October 16, 2020by Naomi Miyashita

    The prospects for UN peacekeeping—indeed of peace operations—are inseparable from those of the UN as an organization.

    Analysisfutureofpeac…, peacekeeping
  • Challenges to Sustainably Increasing Women’s Participation and Gender Equality in Peacekeeping

    October 2, 2020by Lisa Sharland

    If sustainable reforms are not implemented then it is unlikely the goals to increase the number of women in peacekeeping will be realized over the next decade.

    Analysisfutureofpeac…, peacekeeping
  • Lessons From the High-Level Panel’s 2015 Review for the Future of Peace Operations

    September 30, 2020by Ian Martin

    How much progress has been made in overcoming the constraints to well designed and flexibly adapted peace operations?

    Analysisfutureofpeac…, peacekeeping
  • Extremism, Displacement, and COVID-19 in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin

    September 1, 2020by Ilhan Dahir

    Responding to extremist violence and displacement-related issues will depend on decisiveness and more significant coordination.

    Analysisafrica, sahel, terrorism
  • How the New UN Mission in Sudan Can Succeed

    August 25, 2020Philipp Jahn, Gerrit Kurtz, Peter Schumann

    The polarized political landscape in Sudan has already affected the planning process for UNITAMS.

    Analysisafrica, peacekeeping
  • What Happened to the Nexus Approach in the COVID-19 Response?

    June 19, 2020by Damian Lilly

    The global, swift, and devastating nature of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the need to finally put the nexus theory into practice, both for this crisis and those to come.

    Analysiscoronavirus, development, humanitarian…
  • The Impact of COVID-19 on the Protection of Cultural Heritage

    June 17, 2020by Nadia Al-Said

    While there is a pressing need to invest in the future given the pandemic’s impact, this is not fully possible without incorporating cultural heritage.

    Analysiscoronavirus, cultural herita…
  • Examining the Longer-Term Effects of COVID-19 on UN Peacekeeping Operations

    May 13, 2020by Cedric de Coning

    Some new practices are specific to the pandemic and will change over time, while others are likely to be more lasting.

    Analysiscoronavirus, peacekeeping
  • Will Lessons from Cholera in Haiti Be Applied to COVID-19?

    May 6, 2020Adam R. Houston and Beatrice Lindstrom

    While the UN is making efforts to apply lessons from the cholera epidemic, there are reasons to question whether the reforms are adequate.

    Analysispeacekeeping
  • How Has the WHO Responded to the COVID-19 Pandemic?

    April 30, 2020by Lucia Mullen

    What is clear from the range of interventions and steps taken is that the WHO has been involved in almost all aspects of the response.

    Analysis

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