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What should leaders focus on during the United Nations General Assembly High-level week 2022 to help restore some popular trust in international collective action and multilateralism?

Leaders will come together in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High Level Week starting September 19 for both a return to diplomacy and a test of diplomacy.

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Sep 15, 2022
Sarah Cliffe, Karina Gerlach, Hanny Megally
Promoting and Defending Multilateralism

Colombia’s Support for Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees: President Petro reaffirms commitment to integration, but continued progress requires more international support

There are over six million Venezuelan migrants and refugees globally, more than 1.8 million living in neighboring Colombia. These individuals have fled a country suffering from years of economic hardship and political strife. And still today, the situation in Venezuela continues to deteriorate leading to projections that emigration will continue, with Colombia receiving an outsized proportion of migrants. Just this year, over 753,000 Venezuelans have left home.

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Sep 14, 2022
Nate Edwards
Latin America
Humanitarian Crises

Four reasons why the New Agenda for Peace should focus on nationally led violence prevention strategies

Over the past few years, the prevention of violence has gained new momentum at the United Nations (UN). However, the UN still lacks a comprehensive strategy to transform these commitments into action. The UN Charter mostly focuses on the prevention of international conflicts, while lethal violence is nowadays mostly concentrated within countries.

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Sep 09, 2022
Céline Monnier
Conflict Prevention at the United Nations, Prevention and Peacebuilding

Kenya’s Election 2022: Institutions’ coming of age in governance and violence prevention

Kenya went through a blip in 2007-08 where the country—once considered a peaceful country and the economic hub of the East African region—unraveled into a spate of violent conflict that lasted close to six months. Prior to this, violence during the election period had come to characterize elections since the adoption of multi-party democracy in 1990. The only difference is that during the previous 15 years, violence was more state sponsored, targeted to intimidate or uproot communities that were considered anti-government from regions that were government controlled.
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Sep 08, 2022
Betty N. Wainaina
Kenya 2022 elections, electoral reform, violence prevention
Peace and Prevention

The Taliban’s one-year anniversary in Afghanistan: no relief in sight for the Afghan people

As the August 15 one-year anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan approached, what was touted as good news for the United States turned out to be ominous for the Afghan people. On July 31, the head of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, was killed in his Kabul residence by a US drone.
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Sep 06, 2022
Paul Fishstein
Afghanistan, US policy, humanitarian assistance, Afghan banking
Humanitarian Crises

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