In Focus
Examining current challenges and future threats in the air domain in UN peacekeeping.
Building on decades of expertise, the Peace Operations Reform project identifies policy changes to improve the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping and recommends solutions. Stimson has a long history of bridging policy and practice, prioritizing field work to better understand the reality on the ground and then bringing those lessons to policymakers to overcome challenges and maximize mission impact.
Over the last two decades, Stimson research and experts have had a significant influence on UN policy, from the first-ever comprehensive review of UN peacekeeping operations to significant changes in the policy and practice of civilian protection. Stimson’s recent work focuses on host-state government consent for peacekeeping missions, local conflict management by UN peacekeepers, measurement and evaluation, UN intelligence and forward-looking analysis, and the prioritization and sequencing of UN actions in the field.
Peacekeeping missions need to adapt to an evolving threat environment both from and within the air domain
April 17, 2024
It will be essential that the UN, AU, and member states alike unite behind a common approach for addressing the protection of civilians in Sudan.
April 15, 2024
Assessing developments in South Sudan to inform the March 2024 mandate renewal of the UN peacekeeping mission
March 1, 2024
Evaluating the mandate and strategic orientation of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to inform the mission’s December 2023 mandate renewal and forthcoming drawdown
December 11, 2023
Assessing the political strategy for the UN peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic ahead of the November 2023 mandate renewal
November 6, 2023
Blue Helmet peacekeeping missions face ongoing challenges to host-country consent, amidst geopolitical shifts and anti-UN sentiment
September 25, 2023
Examining opportunities for the expedited transition of the peacekeeping mission and longer-term reconfiguration of the UN in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
July 18, 2023
MINUSMA has lessons for the future of UN peacekeeping when it comes to the protection of civilians
July 14, 2023
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