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Interviews with Rwandan women from the military who had served on peacekeeping missions found many felt ill-equipped for what they had to deal with.
UN peacekeeping missions need to adapt to the complexities of active conflict situations.
The UN's mandate must evolve to navigate new realities that include intra-state wars, non-state actors, and transnational crime.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has had a mixed bag of success and failure.
The solidarity conference by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) can be seen as a reaction to the gradual shift of power towards Morocco.
African leaders need to acknowledge the gravity of the Congo crisis and apply pressure on Kabila.
The UN promotes local ownership in peace building, which is difficult to achieve.
As foreign Islamic State fighters return home, there needs to be proper prosecution of sexual violence in armed conflict.
China's presence in Africa continues to grow with its first military base in Djibouti. It wants to be a friend to Africa positioning itself as a global power while looking after its own interests.
As unity talks begin, history tells us the divisions in Cyprus are not simply the result of two competing nationalisms.
By not acknowledging what Haitians themselves think they need, the UN is failing to sort out one of its worst ever blunders.
A former US diplomat explains why some programs may make sense to cut, while others are crucial to America's moral standing.
Cutting off funds for crucial UN bodies could have disastrous consequences for the world order.
Leaders in Davos are being asked to consider how global cooperation could be reinvigorated. They could do worse than start with UN reforms.
Even the UN Security Council's most stubborn members have committed to defending South Sudan's residents against violence.
Africa should focus on the feasible reforms of the UN and de-emphasise its demand for improved representation on the Security Council voting reforms, given the complex politics around these issues.
The violence and instability that wracks South Sudan is profoundly gendered.
It has long been known that UN forces brought disease to the country in the aftermath of an earthquake, but how can amends be made?
The competition between the two authoritarian regimes has become a fact that, given the regional context, is here to last. It justifies repression and indefinitely postpones democratic expression.
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer in Global Studies / ARC DECRA Fellow, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Reading
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Head of Programmes, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University
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Professor of International Relations, Pennsylvania State University
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SARCHI Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in International Security, University of Kent
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Professeur des universités, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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Research Fellow for Conflict, Security and Development and Editor of the Armed Conflict Database at IISS, King's College London
