Latest Updates

UN-IFI Cooperation during Peacekeeping Drawdowns: Opportunities for Mutual Support

As increasing political and budgetary pressures have come to bear on UN peace operations in recent years, more attention has been paid to ensuring that drawdowns are undertaken in a way that sustains the gains of a mission’s presence. This policy briefing highlights a number of missed opportunities and argues for greater collaboration between the UN, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ahead of a mission’s departure to build greater synergies between the country’s political and economic pathways.  

Read more
Mar 31, 2021
Paige Arthur
Multilateral Reform

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support to Sustain Peace: 4 Areas to Explore for Improving Practice

After experimenting with months of lockdown and imposed social distancing measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, people everywhere now have a more immediate understanding of how prolonged crisis can create challenges for both individuals’ mental health as well as maintaining the social fabric of communities.

Read more
Apr 21, 2021
Paige Arthur, Céline Monnier
Prevention and Peacebuilding

Inequality, Lockdown, and COVID-19: Unequal Societies Struggle to Contain the Virus

There is nothing equal about COVID-19. It is now well established that poor and underprivileged social groups have absorbed most of the pandemic’s negative impact. However, the connection between COVID-19 and inequality might run even deeper. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, one additional point of the Gini coefficient correlated with a 1.34 percentage point higher rate of weekly new infections across countries. This difference in infection rates compounds like interest every week.

Read more
Apr 13, 2021
Paul Von Chamier
Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

The Call for a New International Treaty to Improve Pandemic Response – an Opportunity to Foster Peace?

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented catastrophe. It has precipitated the worst global public health crisis in more than a century, and has induced the worst worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression. The pandemic has tested the capacity of our political systems to handle acute emergency, and of our laws and policies to protect the most vulnerable. It has upended our daily routines, strained our coping mechanisms, and exposed, in dramatic detail, the fractures and inequities embedded in our social systems.
Read more
Apr 09, 2021
Céline Monnier , Leah Zamore
peacebuilding architecture, Peace and Security, COVID–19, international cooperation
Peace and Prevention

Data for Peace Dialogue: From Data to Peace – A Dialogue with Facebook

Join the April Data for Peace Dialogue for a conversation with Facebook to hear more on the latest efforts and progress to prevent and mitigate adverse human rights impacts, prevent violence and sustain peace, and the potential of utilizing the Facebook platform and new tools it offers to follow, analyze, and report on what’s happening on social media.

Read more

Pages