All Publications by Alison Giffen

• Presidential Inbox 2013: Meet the Demand for Civilian Capacity

  Click here to view the complete Presidential Inbox series.

  The Challenge

  The US needs more deployable civilian capacity to assist a troubled country move towards stability. The

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• Measuring Success in the Sudans

  Today marks the one-year anniversary of South Sudan's independence from Sudan. To measure what has been achieved, the baseline for progress should reach at least as far back as

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• UN Integration and Humanitarian Space

  An Independent Study Commissioned by the UN Integration Steering Group

  For over two decades, the United Nations has developed policies and practices to create greater coherence

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• Addressing the Doctrinal Deficit

  For a number of years, Stimson research has focused on identifying the obstacles that multilateral organizations and individual states face in preventing and responding to widespread

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• Considerations for a New Peacekeeping Operation in South Sudan

  Following the secession of South Sudan on July 9, 2011, preventing violence against civilians in the new state and along its northern border will remain a priority - if not the

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• Fundamentals of Protecting Civilians

  President Obama has used the protection of civilians as the primary rationale for initiating military action in Libya, with the support of the UN Security Council. Libya isn't the

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• Expeditionary Diplomacy Could Save Lives in Sudan

  On February 7th, Southern Sudan's Referendum Commission officially announced that 99% of Southerners voted for secession. The international community has made extraordinary

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• Will the World’s High Risk Investment in Sudan Protect Civilians?

  From January 9-11, southern Sudan will vote whether to secede and become Africa's newest country. The international community has made extraordinary investments to prevent a

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• Challenges of Strengthening the Protection of Civilians in Multidimensional Peace Operations

  Over the last decade, UN peacekeeping operations have more frequently been deployed into complex environments where there is little but an unstable peace to keep and where former

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• UN Peacekeepers’ Achilles’ Heel can’t be Protected by More Boots on the Ground

  Is the UN prepared to stop the use of one of the oldest weapons of war? Mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo highlights the need for UN member states to focus on doing more

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• Giffen Testifies before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs

  On May 26, 2010, Alison Giffen was asked to testify before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs for the hearing entitled: “Assessing

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• Peacekeepers Protecting Civilians: A Decade of Reform

  Ten years ago, the United Nations Security Council began committing its peacekeepers to protect civilians and prevent the sorts of atrocities that occurred in Rwanda and Srebrenica

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