Partner Op-Eds

  • By Peter Yeo
    Better World Campaign

    I was standing outside a Timorese refugee camp on the day Carlos Caceres pulled me aside with a frightening message - "The militias know who I am and where they can find me." I was shocked by what this United Nations worker had told me--at the time a participant of a Congressional staff delegation--and yet inspired that he was willing to put his life on the line to protect hundreds of thousands Timorese forced from their homes by militia violence...

    Published January 2, 2013
  • By Michael Boyce
    Refugees International

    The Islamist insurgency taking place in northern Mali is one of the main drivers of recent displacement in that country. So far, roughly 400,000 Malians have been forced to flee their homes, and violence in the north has hindered the delivery of aid to vulnerable populations. Reports of human rights abuses are widespread – including executions, torture, rape and other forms of violence against women, and recruitment of child soldiers...

    Published December 5, 2012
  • By Richard Gowan
    Center on International Cooperation

    When the United Nations sends peacekeepers to war zones, there are often excessive expectations about what they can achieve. By contrast, pessimism surrounds the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), which is supposed to oversee a ceasefire and create space for talks between the government of President Bashar al-Assad and its opponents.

    Published May 15, 2012
  • By Michael Graham
    United States Institute of Peace

    This past year has offered fresh proof that the world we live in is ever dynamic. Fundamental change can come from something as extraordinary as a fruit vendor’s act of defiance in Tunisia to popular revolts by reform movements across the Middle East. At the same time, a decade of war and the weak U.S. economy dictates that there must be new ways to think about the role the U.S. will play in the world in the coming years.

    Published March 29, 2012
  • By Ron Capps
    Refugees International

    One of the things that we look at regularly on the peacekeeping team is how peacekeeping missions evolve over time.  Some of the missions standing today have been in operation for far longer than you might imagine.

    Published May 16, 2011
  • By Jonathan Power

    These days I pick up the paper or switch on the news and find that the UN is fighting one battle here and another there. The UN never used to fight quite like this. It was the peacekeeper.

    Published April 26, 2011
  • By Peter Yeo
    Better World Campaign

    In the Ivory Coast today, what is standing between a mere political crisis and full-scale civil war are about 9,000 lightly armed UN Peacekeepers. Since the outbreak of violence in mid-December, these peacekeepers have played an indispensible role protecting the rightful winner of a presidential election and reinforcing this fragile nation’s democracy.

    Published January 21, 2011
  • By Thierry Vircoulon
    International Crisis Group

    After his electoral victory in 2006, President Joseph Kabila promised that he would restore peace in what was the epicentre of the Congo wars: the Kivu provinces. More than four years later, the region seems no more stable than before.

    Published November 23, 2010
  • By Damian Lilly
    Humanitarian Practice Network

    Published October 31, 2010
  • By Peter Yeo
    Better World Campaign

    Published October 22, 2010

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