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Abby Stoddard
Megan Gleason-Roberts
WPS Sidhu

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.

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Pathways to Security Council Reform

Member states are increasingly looking to 2015 as a milestone for progress on United Nations Security Council reform. 2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of the UN, fifty years since the implementation of the last (and only) Council enlargement, and ten years since the 2005 World Summit. This paper provides an overview of the current context, an explanation of global perspectives on UNSC reform, and analysis of discussions on UNSC reform in and around the African Union.

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May 15, 2014
Richard Gowan, Nora Gordon
Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa
United Nations
Prevention and Peacebuilding

Will Africa Be the Key to United Nations Security Council Reform?

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After nearly a decade Africa has decided to revisit its common position on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reform at a summit in Brazzaville, Congo this week. In 2005, Africa established a united position on UN reform in the Ezulwini Consensus.

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May 15, 2014
Nora Gordon
Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa
United Nations
Prevention and Peacebuilding

Detect, Dismantle, and Disarm: IAEA Verification, 1992-2005

After the discovery of a covert nuclear program in Iraq in 1991, the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) role transformed from promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy to verifying compliance with nonproliferation agreements. Over the next decade, the nuclear programs of three other countries - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, South Africa, and Libya - further tested the IAEA's ability to locate nuclear weapons and dismantle them.

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Mar 04, 2013
Christine Wing, Fiona Simpson
East Asia, Middle East, Libya, South Africa
Global Governance, International Security

The Aid Worker Security Database

The Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) records major incidents of violence against aid workers, with incident reports from 1997 through the present. Initiated in 2005, to date the AWSD remains the single most comprehensive global source of this data, providing a much-needed quantitative evidence base for analysis of the changing security environment for civilian aid operations. For more detail on the AWSD click here.

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Jan 05, 2009
Abby Stoddard, Adele Harmer, Katherine Haver
Central Asia, East Asia, Horn of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Humanitarian Crises
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Engagement on Development and Security: New Actors, New Debates

In the past several years, key governments and multilateral institutions have devoted considerable effort to the task of more effectively integrating development and security policy responses to the related challenges of countries affected by conflict, post-conflict peacebuilding, and conflict prevention. The looming deadline of the Millennium Development Goals, has focused attention on this important nexus and the near impossibility of crisis- and conflict-affected states achieving these goals unless development and security is more effectively integrated.

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Sep 05, 2011
Megan Gleason-Roberts, WPS Sidhu, Bruce Jones
China, East Asia, Brazil, India, South Africa
Fragile States, G8 and G20, International Security, Peace Operations
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

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