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A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan’s Bitter and Incomplete Divorce

On October 23rd, the NYU Center on International Cooperation hosted a launch of A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan’s Bitter and Incomplete Divorce with author James Copnall. A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts is the first book focusing entirely on Sudan and South Sudan after the 2011 separation.

Event Date: Oct 23, 2014

Region/Country: Horn of Africa

Ban Ki-moon: 'World living in an era of unprecedented level of crises'

UN secretary general prepares to welcome more than 140 heads of state to organisation's general assembly this week.

Read the full Guardian article Ban Ki-moon: 'World living in an era of unprecedented level of crises'

Publication Date: Sep 22, 2014

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan

Region/Country: Europe, Horn of Africa, Middle East, West Africa

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

Topic(s): Crises, Fragile States, Humanitarian Crises, Transnational Threats, United Nations

Somalia’s New Deal Compact: Balancing Flexibility and Accountability

Somalia’s New Deal Compact, Flexibility, Accountability, Thomas Zimmerman

Over the course of the next month, CIC is looking at the Somali New Deal Compact and discussing how its development and implementation have impacted its effectiveness as a peacebuilding framework. This post is third in a series.

Publication Date: Sep 09, 2014

Author(s): Thomas Zimmerman

Region/Country: Horn of Africa

Program(s): Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Somalia’s New Deal Compact: The Meaning of Ownership

Somalia’s New Deal Compact, Thomas Zimmerman

Over the course of the next month, CIC is looking at the Somali New Deal Compact and discussing how its development and implementation have impacted its effectiveness as a peacebuilding framework. This post is second in a series. The first was on the Somali New Deal Compact’s implementation to date.

Publication Date: Aug 21, 2014

Author(s): Thomas Zimmerman

Region/Country: Horn of Africa

Topic(s): Post 2015 Development

Program(s): Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Somalia’s New Deal: The Compact and its Implementation So Far

This year, CIC’s Somalia team has been closely analyzing peacebuilding efforts in the country. Most recently, we took a close look at the Somali New Deal Compact with an eye to its effectiveness as a peacebuilding tool. With a conference on the Compact scheduled to take place in Copenhagen this November, it is important to reflect on how this framework was developed and to study how it has been implemented to date.

Publication Date: Aug 08, 2014

Author(s): Thomas Zimmerman

Region/Country: Horn of Africa

Topic(s): Post 2015 Development

Program(s): Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

A New Deal for Somalia? : The Somali Compact and its Implications for Peacebuilding

This policy monitoring brief analyzes the process that led to the “Somali New Deal Compact,” the framework’s potential effectiveness as a peacebuilding tool, and potential ways to strengthen it. We find that the New Deal Compact in Somalia appears to have created a paradigm shift in international policy rhetoric around Somali ownership and leadership. However, the process to develop the Compact has also revealed a series of difficult trade-offs (related to process, risk, and implementation) between political and technical imperatives for both Somali and external actors.

Publication Date: Jul 30, 2014

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Thomas Zimmerman

Region/Country: Horn of Africa

Topic(s): Fragile States

Program(s): Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Peace is Necessary for the African Continent to Achieve its Development Aspirations

After a marathon negotiation session, the Open Working Group (OWG) on the Sustainable Development Goals finalized its outcome document.

Publication Date: Jul 28, 2014

Author(s): Eric Kashambuzi, Ashley Skiles

Region/Country: Horn of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa

Topic(s): Post 2015 Development

Program(s): Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

UN Crisis Diplomacy and Peacekeeping: An Emergency Health Check

The UN is currently in poor health but the severity of its condition is not yet clear, Richard Gowan argues in this paper commissioned by the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue for the 2014 Oslo Forum for senior mediators. Gowan assesses the impact of events in South Sudan, Syria and Ukraine for the UN, and warns that the organization's operational and political credibility is weakening.

Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan

Region/Country: Europe, Horn of Africa, Middle East

Topic(s): Peace Operations, United Nations

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

UN Peacekeepers: Not perfect but just good enough

Over the past six months, United Nations peacekeeping has come closer to catastrophe than at any time since the Rwandan genocide and Srebrenica massacre. The UN mission in South Sudan was caught off-guard when the country imploded last December. The crisis has claimed at least 10,000 lives. More then a million civilians have fled their homes, with 80,000 sheltering in UN compounds

Read the full Chatham House article UN Peacekeepers: Not perfect but just good enough

Publication Date: Jun 06, 2014

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Richard Gowan

Region/Country: Europe, Horn of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

Topic(s): Crises, Fragile States, Peace Operations, United Nations