Featured Speakers James Swan, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in SomaliaAmb. Dr. Nawal Al Hosany, Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the International …
Stimson Distinguished Fellows William Durch and Victoria Holt were featured this week (Wednesday, December 6, 2017) in a forum on UN peacekeeping reform with the new United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix …
Published December 8, 2017 / Held December 6, 2017
RSVP HERE The Stimson Center and United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) are hosting a discussion with Alanna O’Malley, author of the forthcoming book, The Diplomacy of Decolonisation, America, Britain and the United Nati …
Over the last decade or so, the UN Security Council has given complex UN peace operations broad mandates in police development, followed by mandates to help restore justice systems and eventually for advisory support to national prison systems. The US …
Published March 27, 2015 / Held September 27, 2012
Stimson held a discussion with editors of the new book, “Counting Civilian Casualties: An Introduction to Recording and Estimating Nonmilitary Deaths in Conflict” (Oxford University Press, 2013) Speakers: Taylor B. Seybolt, Assistant Professor, Univers …
Abramson Family Founders Room, At the intersection of New Mexico Ave. and Nebraska Ave. NW School of International Service, American University Washington, DC 20016 Challenges to the Global Order: Can the United Nations Manage Current Conflicts? O …
Published March 27, 2015 / Held September 16, 2014
In light of the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of South Sudan’s ongoing Civil War and the recent violence in North Kivu, engaging communities in protection strategies has never been more important. However, international actors must weigh th …
Humanity faces a growing range of challenges – from political violence and environmental decay to cyber-insecurity and cross-border economic shocks – with global security and justice implications that need urgent attention but far exceed state a …
Published November 21, 2014 / Held November 20, 2014
Stimson’s Civilians in Conflict project and Saferworld, an international organization focused on conflict resolution and peacebuilding, held a joint event in Washington to engage the policy community, thought leaders and practitioners working in confli …
The office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction issued its final lessons learned report earlier this year. Among the recommendations was a call for establishing a new U.S. Office for Contingency Operations, for planning and implemen …
What Mali Can Teach Us: A Discussion on the Primacy of Civil Authority in Rebuilding the Security Sector Presented by the Alliance for Peacebuilding, Mali Watch, the National Defense University’s Africa Center for Strategic Studies, and the Stims …
As U.N. peace operations are asked and expected to do more in increasingly complex and dangerous environments, this discussion with Dr. Walter Dorn, professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and the Canadian Forces College, e …
Stimson’s Future of Peace Operations Program and CSIS’s Americas Program and Program on Crisis, Conflict and Cooperation hosted the launch of a new book: Exit Strategies and State Building In the past two decades, states and multil …
Published December 6, 2012 / Held December 5, 2012
Stimson’s Future of Peace Operations program and The Partnership for Effective Peacekeeping hosted an informal conversation with: Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Løj, former UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Mi …