Peace Operations

Peace operations comprise peacekeeping - the provision of temporary postconflict security by internationally mandated forces - and peacebuilding - those efforts undertaken by the international community to help a war-torn society create a self-sustaining peace.

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October 22, 2012 / By William Durch, Michelle Ker
UN Police, Justice and Corrections Programming: Summarizing Recent Practice

Case studies for nine UN complex operations and special political missions were developed by Stimson at the request of the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI) of the

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July 26, 2012 / By William Durch, Michelle Ker
Understanding Impact of Police, Justice and Corrections Components in UN Peace Operations

The UN Security Council is sending record numbers of personnel into peace operations of growing complexity in environments where critical government functions, including criminal

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July 09, 2012 / By Alison Giffen
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 January

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July 03, 2012 / By William Durch, Madeline England, Fiona Mangan, Michelle Ker
Understanding Impact of Police, Justice and Corrections Components in UN Peace Operations

Over the last decade or so, the UN Security Council gave complex UN peace operations broader mandates in police development, followed by mandates to help restore criminal justice systems

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October 25, 2011 / By Alison Giffen, Max Kelly
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 and

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