What a Decisive Victory Looks Like
By Allison Beth Hodgkins. There is a certain irony in Aleppo falling on the eighteenth anniversary of the…
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Celebrating As One? #1325at15
Guest post by Louise Olsson and Theodora-Ismene Gizelis On October 13th, the Security Council will meet to hold its…
Enough with the Pessimism about Peacekeeping
By Page Fortna The recent story from the New York Times about United Nations peacekeeping is typical of…
Nonviolence Means Less Abuse
By Oliver Kaplan for Denver Dialogues Did you hear about the scandal involving nonviolent accompaniers who sexually abused…
Why the UN Sucks at Conflict Prevention
By Andrew Mack In 2005, the UN’s World Summit stressed the need to create “a culture of prevention”…
Gap Half Full? A Dialogue on Bridging the Academic-Policy Divide
By Deborah Avant for Denver Dialogues A recent post by Ana O’Harrow and Mike Tierney reminds us to…
Peacekeeping Has Worked, But Is It Working now?
By Lise Morjé Howard When I first started studying peacekeeping some 20 years ago, the popular view was that…
Peacekeeping Works Better Than You May Think
Guest post by Roland Paris Does peacekeeping work? Janice Stein (University of Toronto) and I had a lively…
Is UN Offensive Intervention in Congo a New Model of Peacekeeping?
By Lionel Beehner Good news is a rare commodity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). So skepticism is…
UN’s New Intervention in DRC: Offensive or Inoffensive?
By Lionel Beehner With President Obama just wrapping up his trip to Africa, it’s worth pausing to consider the…