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Camino Kavanagh
Abby Stoddard

Inequality, Lockdown, and COVID-19: Unequal Societies Struggle to Contain the Virus

There is nothing equal about COVID-19. It is now well established that poor and underprivileged social groups have absorbed most of the pandemic’s negative impact. However, the connection between COVID-19 and inequality might run even deeper. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, one additional point of the Gini coefficient correlated with a 1.34 percentage point higher rate of weekly new infections across countries. This difference in infection rates compounds like interest every week.

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Apr 13, 2021
Paul Von Chamier
Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

The Just Transition in Energy

With each new year of data, and each new intergovernmental report, it becomes harder to deny the scale and urgency of the energy transition required to prevent catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges countries to take action to prevent a rise in temperature by more than 1.5°C, and warns of catastrophic consequences of a rise above 2°C. Yet current policies and pledges fall far short of hitting these targets.

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Dec 18, 2020
Ian Goldin
China, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Crises, International Security
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Sustaining Peace in Security Transitions: The Liberian Opportunity

For decades prior to the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2003, Liberia suffered through authoritarian rule and one of Africa’s most brutal civil wars, which killed more than 200,000 people and displaced over a million more.

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Jan 30, 2017
Gizem Sucuoglu , Lesley Connolly
West Africa
Prevention and Peacebuilding
United Nations

GPOR Annual Compilation 2016

We've produced a video highlighting the launch of the Global Peace Operations Review (GPOR) annual compilation. This second edtion of the compilation, is the first to collect a full year’s worth of content from the website in a single publication.

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Jan 27, 2017
Europe, Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
Prevention and Peacebuilding
Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises, International Security, Peace Operations, United Nations

GPOR Annual Compilation 2016

© Global Peace Operations Review

© Global Peace Operations Review

This is the second edition of the Global Peace Operations Review (GPOR) annual compilation. It is the first to collect a full year’s worth of content from the website in a single publication. Using an online platform allows us to constantly innovate, and we plan to continue to evolve between these annual releases. Producing the annual compilation allows GPOR  to curate this material thematically in a fully searchable and citable electronic book.  If you’re reading this in PDF format, any text highlighted in blue is hyperlinked back to the website.

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Jan 27, 2017
Sarah Cliffe, Alexandra Novosseloff, Hanny Megally , Richard Gowan, Jason Stearns, Ryan Rappa, Gizem Sucuoglu
Europe, Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises, International Security, Peace Operations, United Nations
Prevention and Peacebuilding

GPOR Annual Compilation now available via print-on-demand

For almost a decade, the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations (ARGPO) was the flagship publication of the Center on International Cooperation (CIC). During that time, CIC also released three editions of the Review of Political Missions.

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Mar 21, 2016
Center on International Cooperation
China, Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Horn of Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
Global Governance, United Nations
Prevention and Peacebuilding

Africa, the indispensable continent for India

The third India Africa Forum Summit (IAFS) in New Delhi this week, with over 40 African heads of governments and states attending, will be the biggest foreign policy event hosted by India in more than three decades. While this process was partly in response to initiatives by other emerging powers, particularly the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation launched in 2000, it was also a belated recognition that Africa was becoming an indispensable continent for India’s future—one that New Delhi can ignore at its own detriment.

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Oct 26, 2015
WPS Sidhu
South Asia, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
India, South Asia

Abidjan Launch of the OECD States of Fragility Report 2015

On April 8, 2015 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire the African Develpment Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched the 2015 OECD report on fragility. This report researched and authored by CIC's Sarah Hearn, David Steven, and Ben Oppenheim, contributes to the broader debate to define and implement post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It points out that addressing fragility in the new framework will be crucial if strides in reducing poverty are to be made.

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Apr 08, 2015
West Africa
Fragile States, Post 2015 Development
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Meeting Note | African Perspectives on Peacebuilding: Opportunities for 2015

Peacebuilding continues to gain recognition in international and national spheres for the crucial role it plays in laying the foundations for sustainable peace. In the last two decades, the United Nations has developed its peacebuilding architecture (PBA) in order to strengthen its responses to countries recovering from conflict. Within this larger context, 2015 will be a critical year for peacebuilding as member states undertake a comprehensive review of the UN PBA.

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Dec 10, 2014
Center on International Cooperation
Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

African Perspectives on Peacebuilding: Opportunities for 2015

In November, CIC joined with the Institute of Security Studies to host a discussion with member state representatives and UN staff on African perspectives on the future of peacebuilding. Peacebuilding continues to gain recognition in international and national spheres for the crucial role it plays in laying the foundations for sustainable peace. In the last two decades, the United Nations has developed its peacebuilding architecture (PBA) in order to strengthen its responses to countries recovering from conflict.

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Nov 19, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Peace Operations
Prevention and Peacebuilding, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

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