Future of Peace Operations

Program News

• William Durch speaks at USIP on overcoming obstacles for peace

  Bill Durch spoke at a joint USIP and RAND Corporation event Overcoming Obstacles for Peace on March 18th. The event launched a new RAND book, Overcoming Obstacles to Peace,

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• Alison Giffen quoted in Boston Globe on the role of private firms in UN peace operations

  Alison Giffen was quoted in a Boston Globe article on the role of private firms in UN peace operations. Click here to read.

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• Alison Giffen and Rachel Stohl publish op-ed in Politico

  Alison Giffen and Rachel Stohl published an op-ed in Politico on Arming Syrian Rebels.

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• William Durch participates in Challeges of Peace Operations Forum Research Workshop

  William Durch participated in the Challenges of Peace Operations Forum research workshop, co-sponsored by the Folke Bernadotte Academy (Sweden) and the German Center for Peace

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• William Durch speaks at high-level conference on International Police Peacekeeping

  William Durch presented findings from Stimson's study on the impact of UN police, justice and corrections components at a high-level conference on International Police Peacekeeping in

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• William Durch presented results of the impact study to 4th UN International Corrections Conference

  The presentation launched a panel discussion that included the heads of the corrections components of UN operations in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and

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• William Durch presented findings of police, justice and corrections impact study at UN conference

  The talk presented findings and recommendations of FOPO's study of police, justice and corrections work in UN peace operations. The venue was the UN's first Regional Meeting for the

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• William Durch quoted in Bloomberg on UN staffing in Syria

  William Durch was quoted by Bloomberg's Peter Green in his article on the UN recruiting only half the 300 military observers it needs to staff its unarmed monitoring force in Syria.

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• Future of Peace Operations SSR Best Practices Reference Matrix posted to UN SSR Unit Website

  The Future of Peace Operations' SSR Best Practices Reference Matrix was posted to the UN SSR Unit website.

  The SSR Best Practices Reference Matrix is part of a larger project

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• Alison Giffen writes background paper for Australian Civil-Military Centre conference

  Alison Giffen was invited to write the background paper for the 2011 Australian Civil-Military Centre Civil-Military Affairs conference.  The paper, Enhancing the Protection of

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• Alison Giffen quoted in IRIN Humanitarian News And Analysis

  Alison Giffen was quoted in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ online publication IRIN about her work on the recent publication UN Integration and

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• UN Integration and Humanitarian Space Report Highlighted in The Guardian

  The Guardian's Frederika Whitehead wrote about the recently released UN Integration and Humanitarian Space report, published by the Overseas Development Institute and the Stimson

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• Alison Giffen quoted in NPR story on Lord’s Resistance Army

  Alison Giffen was recently quoted in the NPR article "Uganda Mission Part Of Military's Wide Reach" by Alan Greenblatt. Giffen spoke to President Obama's recent decision to send 100

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• William Durch speaks on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Fit For Purpose? at Brookings

  Senior Associate William Durch spoke at the Managing Global Order and Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement event United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Fit for Purpose? 

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• Alain Le Roy joins Lincoln Bloomfield, Jr. at Stimson’s Chairman’s Forum

  

  Ambassador Bloomfield sat down with Alain Le Roy, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping, for this month's Chairman's Forum. Mr. Le Roy discussed the role of

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• Stimson and PEP host roundtable with UNAMID leadership

  On March 1, 2011 the Stimson Center and the Partnership for Effective Peacekeeping hosted a roundtable featuring the head of UNAMID, Joint Special Representative Ibrahim Gambari,

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• US Mission to the UN hosts roundtable discussion of UN Panels of Experts and UN Peace Operations

  On January 28, 2011, the Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations hosted a roundtable discussion of the Stimson Center report, UN Panels of Experts and UN Peace

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• Alison Giffen contributes guest post on Sudan to The Will and the Wallet

  Alison Giffen contributed a guest post, "Sudan: A Case Against Cutting Investment in Diplomacy and Development," to the Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense blog The Will and the

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• Alison Giffen speaks at “Sudan: Regional Implications of Post-Referendum Scenarios” Workshop

  On December 16, 2010, Alison Giffen spoke at "Sudan: Regional Implications of Post-Referendum Scenarios," a large workshop hosted by the National Defense University CCO.  The workshop

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• Durch lectures at US Marine Corps War College (MCWAR) on evolution of UN peace support operations

  William Durch was invited to speak on the United Nations’ role in “international security operations” before a course of 30 US military, foreign military, and US government civilian

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• Stimson Center Releases New Report on UN Panels of Experts

  The Stimson Center released a new report today on UN Panels of Experts and their work with UN Peace Operations.  Drawing on research and interviews conducted in Côte d'Ivoire, DRC,

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