The Big Lesson of Peacekeeping in Sudan: Beware of Host-Country Obstruction
By Allard Duursma Every student that takes a class on United Nations (UN) peace operations will be told…
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Sudan One Year After the Coup
By guest contributor Salah Ben Hammou On April 11, 2019, the Sudanese military ousted President Omar Al-Bashir in…
Force vs. Legitimacy: UN Peacekeeping and Protecting Civilian Lives
Guest post by Anup Phayal. In recent years, protection of civilians has become a key mandate for UN…
Children for Hire
Guest post by Christopher Faulkner. Last week marked the 19th anniversary of the Optional Protocol to the Convention…
Where is the Global Left Wing?
By Deborah Avant for Denver Dialogues. A recent post by Dan Slater and Lucus Way lists intervention by…
WANTED: UN Peacekeepers for Mali
By Marina Henke. In early June UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon made an urgent plea to increase the…
The “Politics of Naming” and the Genocide Debate
By Marie Berry for Denver Dialogues Last week the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted…
State Responses to Local Conflict: Providing Security or Protecting Interests?
By Emma Elfversson When violence erupted in late 2014 between local communities in Turkana, Kenya, where oil was recently…