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Peacekeeping in Africa : The evolving security architecture

This new Routledge volume, edited by Marco Wyss and Thierry Tardy provides a comprehensive analysis of the trends and challenges of international peacekeeping in Africa. In their contribution to the volume, former CIC staff member Megan Gleason-Roberts and CIC Senior Program Officer Alischa Kugel analyze the changing dimensions of international peacekeeping in Africa, including how civilian-led political missions, regional deployments and over the horizon security guarantees are increasingly important tools for crisis response.

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Feb 25, 2014
Alischa Kugel , Megan Gleason-Roberts
Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
Fragile States, International Security, Peace Operations
Prevention and Peacebuilding

¿Un laboratorio para el desarrollo sostenible? América Latina y el Caribe y la Agenda para el Desarrollo Post-2015

A fines de octubre de 2013, los embajadores del Grupo de Países de América Latina y el Caribe en las Naciones Unidas (GRULAC), sus negociadores clave de las respectivas capitales, representantes de la sociedad civil y organismos del Sistema de la ONU en la región, se reunieron en un retiro de otoño para debatir la agenda Post-2015. Este retiro fue auspiciado por el Grupo de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo para América Latina y el Caribe (GNUD ALC) y contó con la participación de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).

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Jan 13, 2014
David Steven, Alejandra Kubitschek Bujones
Post 2015 Development
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Getting to Peace: New Approaches to Ending Conflict

The number of wars and the deaths they cause have been steadily decreasing since the post-World War II period. But changes in both the nature of conflict and the degree to which it is broadcast to a global public have underscored the need for effective peacemaking, while also changing our approaches to achieving a stable peace. Richard Gowan looks at the U.N.’s shift toward aggressive and riskier peacemaking missions. 

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Dec 17, 2013
Richard Gowan
Crises, Peace Operations, United Nations
Prevention and Peacebuilding

Why Would Peace Be Controversial at the United Nations? Negotiations Toward a Post-2015 Development Framework

Despite a strong evidence base and widespread affirmations of the connections between peace, good governance, and development, these issues remain among the most controversial in the post-2015 development agenda and are at risk of being left off the agenda in the intergovernmental process to forge a final agreement.

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Dec 18, 2013
Jennifer Slotin
Emerging Powers, Fragile States
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

A Laboratory for Sustainable Development? Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Post-2015 Development Agenda

At the end of October 2013, Ambassadors from the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Countries in the United Nations, their key negotiators from respective capitals, civil society representatives, and UN System agencies from the region met in an Autumn Retreat on the Post-2015 Agenda. The retreat was sponsored by the United Nations Development Group for Latin America and the Caribbean with the participation of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Dec 11, 2013
David Steven, Alejandra Kubitschek Bujones
Post 2015 Development
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

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