The lead protagonists, Congolese president Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame, seem unwilling to reconcile. Personal mediation is required.
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A tour of the US was the culmination of an extraordinary peace campaign that gathered 390,296 signatures from women all over Wales. So why does it not appear in any history books?
The electoral commission had only four months for work which normally takes two to three years. In the end, the election succeeded because the nation wanted it to succeed.
Ahtisaari’s role in Namibia was crucial. But he left a major legacy in pursuing peace in various places of conflict in his later life too.
An agreement to end conflict is only one small step in an often long process.
He will have a joyful welcome but a difficult task - to challenge negative values while enabling a more African Catholic church.
There are political risks to even floating the idea. But a summit could conceivably reset the discourse around a war currently stuck dangerously in cycles of escalation.
An overwhelming majority of Ukrainians are not willing to negotiate over the territorial integrity of the country, even if it means peace.
The country urgently needs more people who are committed to living decently to undo the systemic humiliation caused by political and economic institutions.
Kiir and Machar have been pivotal figures in most of South Sudan’s short history as an independent nation.
Russia and Ukraine have held several rounds of failed peace talks. Understanding the challenges to successful peace talks helps illuminate the struggle for peace in Eastern Europe.
Politicians aren’t necessarily the best mediators. International experts on peace mediation should be involved.
Instead of drawing on the lessons of its own negotiated settlement and its rich history of peace-making in Africa, Pretoria chose to appease Russia.
The Southern African Development Community does not have a remarkable record of military interventions in civil conflicts in the region.
While South Africa should pay careful attention to all its existing trade and economic relations, particular attention should go to its intra-African economic relations.
Former presidents Obasanjo and Mbeki have arguably made the most important contribution to Africa in the 21st Century by promoting peace, democracy, regional integration and pan-Africanism.
Leaders’ efforts to end conflict have been ineffective. Working through regional economic communities might be part of a better approach.
South Africa’s post-apartheid leaders have failed to properly prepare the military for secondary roles such as peacekeeping, let alone to a fight a virus.
The Chinese model of peace differs fundamentally from that pursued by western nations.
Unless member states try to solve the contradictions in expectations, UN peacekeeping will not be fit for purpose in the future.
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Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Senior Lecturer in International Law, The University of Western Australia
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Chercheure-associée au Centre Thucydide, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
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Associate Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate Professor, Political Science, Georgia State University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in International Relations, Aston University
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Monash University
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Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
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