Hearing on “United Nations Peacekeeping in Africa”
April 30, 2019 – Tori Holt tesified in front of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Human Rights and International Organizations, a part of the House Foreign Affairs Committees in the U.S. House of Representatives about the United Nations (U.N.) Peacekeeping in Africa, highlighting the important role the United States need to play in global […]
Can International Organizations Promote Democracy?
Organizing Democracy, a new book by Paul Poast and Johannes Urpelainen, argues that new democracies are more likely to flourish when they receive support from international organizations to help them provide public goods to their populations. This event will present the findings of Organizing Democracy, analyze the relationships between new democracies and international organizations in […]
Aditi Gorur Quoted on John Bolton Appointment as National Security Adviser
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U.N. Peacekeeping & Host-State Consent
A fundamental principle of United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping is that missions deploy only with the consent of the main parties to a conflict, including the host-state government. In practice, however, the absence of genuine host-state consent represents one of the greatest threats to the success of modern peacekeeping missions.
Aditi Gorur Quoted on U.N. Peacekeeping Troops
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Rachel Stohl Interviewed on US-led Arms Export Industry Fueling Civilian Deaths
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Aditi Gorur quoted on UN Peacekeeping Budget Cut
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Aditi Gorur Op-Ed on America’s Role to Avert Genocide in Central African Republic
Today President Faustin-Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic (CAR) will ask the United Nations to help him put an end to the crisis in his country. On the surface, it’s a tough sell, given how many conflicts around the world demand international attention, and how few interests the United States has in the impoverished African nation. […]