Public Administration Reform and Its Implications for Foreign Petroleum Companies in Kazakhstan
The Future of African Peace Operations: From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram
Facing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent. But while the African Union has demonstrated its ability to deploy forces on short notice and in difficult circumstances, the challenges posed by increasingly complex conflict zones have revealed a widening divide between the theory and practice of peacekeeping. With the AU's African Standby Force becoming fully operational in 2016, this timely and much-needed work argues that responding to these challenges will require a new and distinctively African model of peacekeeping, as well as a radical revision of the current African security framework. The first book to provide a comprehensive overview and analysis of African peace operations, The Future of African Peace Operations gives a long overdue assessment of the ways which peacekeeping on the continent has evolved over the past decade. It will be a vital resource for policy makers, researchers and all those seeking solutions and insights into the immense security challenges which Africa is facing today.
The future of peace in Africa
Africa does not need saviors, but partners, according to Cedric de Coning and John Karlsrud, co-editors of the recent book ‘The Future of African Peace Operations: From Janjaweed to Boko Haram’.
UN70: Rethinking the humanitarian-development nexus?
How can the UN improve the interplay between humanitarian and development actors?
Expert meeting: Europe, the EU and security
In connection with the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s project “Norwegian foreign and security policy – the options ahead”, which will lead to a white paper in spring 2017, NUPI is in cooperation with the MFA organizing a series of expert meetings on relevant topics during spring/early summer 2016. The main purpose of the meetings is to give academic input to the project.
Cooperation between the OSCE Academy and NUPI
The project consists of a wide range of activities including capacity-building of the OSCE Academy as a regional meeting point for research and education, support for two MA programmes in Politics and...
NUPI to lead project on TTIP
NUPI will, jointly with other research groups in Norway and abroad, analyze the consequences for Norway of a free trade agreement between the EU and the USA.
Best practices in EU crisis response and policy implementation
This report has two aims. First, to take stock of how the Europen External Action Sercvice (EEAS) and the Commission have institutionalized lessons-learned mechanism. Second, to discuss the extent to which these mechanisms and practices incorporate the EU’s ambitions for a ‘conflict-sensitive’ and ‘comprehensive’ crisis-response approach. In this sense, this report will serve as a point of departure for case-study research to be undertaken within the framework of Work Packages 5–7 of the EUNPACK project, on whether there is a gap between policy and practice with regard to institutional learning.
Next step for the United Nations
The new Secretary-General of the United Nations takes office the 1st of January 2017. Will we be needing a new agenda?
Synthesis Report: Reviewing UN Peace Operations, the UN Peacebuilding Architecture and the Implementation of UNSCR 1325
In 2015, three reviews in the field of Peace and Security were undertaken: the UN peace operations review, the review of the UN Peace building Architecture and the review of the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325. These reviews reflect the acknowledgement that the changing dynamics of conflict in the world necessitates a revision of the UN’s tools in order for the organisation to maintain its relevance and ability to meet these challenges. This report presents the key recommendations as well as common themes across the reviews. The common themes are: the changing nature of conflict; the importance of the women, peace and security agenda for the UN’s work;the primacy of prevention and the need for a long-term focus; the necessity to shift towards people-centred, inclusive processes; the primacy of politics; the need for field focus and context awareness; the privileging of the military response to violent conflict is counterproductive; partnership with other actorsis important; leadership and professionalisation of the UN is needed; and a call for stronger UN system coherence. It ends by offering some recommendations to the current and next UN Secretary General.