Tackling the Peace Operations Dilemma: Q&A with José Ramos-Horta
The United Nations must strengthen relationships with regional organizations such as the African Union in peace operations and seek to...
Social media and the Peace-Conflict Tension: Prospects and Challenges
December 2016 The environment of peace and conflict is daily being altered by the rapid, spontaneous coverage of African peace and...
Resources, Conflict, and Opportunities for Stable Peace: Africa 2015-2025
August 2016 In the African armed conflict literature, resources, particularly resource contestation is blamed for most armed conflicts in...
Tunisian group wins Nobel Peace Prize
BERLIN — An alliance of Tunisian workers, employers, lawyers and activists won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a decision meant to honor...
Somali militants vow to welcome British peacekeepers 'with fire'
Somalia's militant Islamist group al Shabaab pledged on Tuesday to greet British troops "with fire" when they arrive to provide support...
Trouble in Peace Land
In May 2010, in an attempt to bring state authority back to war-torn parts of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United...
Peacebuilding Review Urges Long-Haul Approach for UN
In the United Nations’ quest for peace, the decision to create the Peacebuilding Commission, the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), and...
Transforming Peacebuilding: Can the Internationals Put the Locals First?
Despite so many efforts to make internationally designed peacebuilding and development projects sustainable after the outsiders have...
New Book Suggests Failures of Peacebuilding Linked to Habits of the Well-Intentioned
At the heart of Séverine Autesserre’s new book is a conundrum: If international peacebuilders are well-meaning people versed in the...
