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COVID-19, Election Governance, and Preventing Electoral Violence

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact on the conduct of elections. Governments and electoral authorities have responded with innovative practices—but the challenges have also revealed gaps and weaknesses. Lessons from COVID-19 can help with preparedness for future challenges, such as holding elections in the wake of natural disasters or in highly polarized contexts. This joint analysis from CIC and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance examines how countries are handling elections during the pandemic, and explores options for ensuring good election governance and preventing electoral violence.

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Nov 02, 2020
Sarah Cliffe
Nendirmwa Noel, Kevin Casas-Zamora
Crises, Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises, Rule of Law
Humanitarian Crises, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Perspectives on a Pandemic: COVID-19 Analysis from CIC

CIC staff, fellows, and partners are working to shed light on the intersections between the global coronavirus pandemic and the issues we study, from the future of multilateralism and the global humanitarian response to the ongoing work of building peaceful, just and inclusive societies. This is a regularly updated collection of our articles, blog posts, and policy papers on COVID-19.

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Nov 02, 2020
2030 Agenda, Afghanistan, Crises, Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises
Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project, Congo Research Group, Humanitarian Crises, Multilateral Reform, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies , Prevention and Peacebuilding

Data for Peacebuilding and Prevention Ecosystem Mapping: The State of Play and the Path to Creating a Community of Practice

How can cutting-edge approaches to data—like advanced data science methods, quantitative methods, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP)—help inform peacebuilding and conflict prevention? This report from CIC’s new Data for Peacebuilding and Prevention initiative maps and analyzes the existing global ecosystem in the field and lays out recommendations to grow the field effectively.

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Oct 27, 2020
Branka Panic
Crises, Fragile States, Peace Operations, United Nations
Prevention and Peacebuilding

Launch of the UN Senior Leadership Appointments Dashboard

The Center on International Cooperation and the Center for Global Affairs at NYU are launching an online dashboard aimed at tracking diversity at the leadership level for the United Nations. The new UN Senior Leadership Appointments Dashboard collates information issued as press releases by the UN about appointments of its most senior leaders since 1996, tracking various measures of diversity including gender, national origin, age, and educational background.

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Oct 22, 2020
Global Governance, United Nations
Multilateral Reform

A Stocktaking of the UN-IFI Relationship on Prevention and Peacebuilding, 2018 to 2020

In 2018, the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank published a groundbreaking report driven by the conviction that the international community’s attention must urgently be rebalanced from crisis response to prevention, leading to deepening collaboration between the UN and international financial institutions. This briefing by Paige Arthur provides an external perspective on the evolution of the UN-IFI relationship on prevention and peacebuilding over the past three years.

 
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Oct 15, 2020
Paige Arthur
Crises, Fragile States, United Nations
Multilateral Reform, Prevention and Peacebuilding

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