Resources

How guns fall silent: analysing examples of relative success in integrated stabilisation

No shortcuts to security: Learning from responses to armed conflicts involving proscribed groups

The rise of counter-terrorism at the United Nations: two decades later

Incompatible Bedfellows: UN Peace Operations and Counter-terrorism

Predictions of the demise of United Nations peacekeeping have so far been premature. The world is adrift in a sea of volatility. Current trends – including rising conflict, authoritarianism, and heavy-handed security practices – mean there will be plenty of “peace” for UN operations to keep in the next decade.

The international security echo-chamber: getting civil society into the room

Interventions in the name of security often end up undermining peace. In response, many peace and rights activists around the world are considering how to change this and ensure people affected by conflict are heard.

Inside Kenya's war on terror: the case of Lamu

Why UN peacekeeping operations must not become counter-terrorism missions

Increased pressure on UN peacekeeping operations to engage in counter-terrorism risk bogging down blue helmets in unwinnable wars and destroying their claim to impartiality in the process. This short-term thinking could change UN peacekeeping as we know it. 

UN peace operations should get off the counter-terror bandwagon

There has been too little discussion of the enormous risks that counter-terrorism involvement in UN peace operations poses for UN efforts to maintain and build peace.

United Nations peace operations in complex environments: charting the right course