An Integrated Approach to Prevention: The Links between Prevention, the 2030 Agenda, and Sustaining Peace
An integrated approach to crisis and conflict prevention requires clarity on what is meant by prevention, and how the concept of prevention fits with the 2030 Agenda, sustaining peace, and other relevant frameworks. This new briefing paper by Sarah Cliffe and David Steven proposes a new paradigm for prevention that has three levels: (i) universal prevention strategies that aim to build healthy societies that manage conflict productively, provide safety and security, increase resilience, and enhance social, political, and economic inclusion; (ii) "at risk" prevention strategies that target groups, communities, and countries that face elevated risk of conflict, or where violence is highest and resilience lowest; and (iii) prevention strategies that are tailored to situations of ongoing conflict or crisis.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Sarah Cliffe, David Steven
Topic(s): 2030 Agenda, Crises, International Security, Peace Operations, Post 2015 Development, Transnational Threats
Program(s): Multilateral Reform, Prevention and Peacebuilding, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
UN Peace and Security Reform: Cautious Steps in the Right Direction
On Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' first day in office, he signaled his intention to reform the peace and security pillar by immediately co-locating staff from the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and establishing an internal review team to work on the bigger proposals for change made by the High Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO), the Advisory Group of Experts (AGE) on the Review of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture, and the Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. CIC supported some of the independent review team's work through our report Restructuring the UN Secretariat to Strengthen Preventative Diplomacy and Peace Operations. The Secretary-General has now made proposals based on the team's recommendation.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Sarah Cliffe
Topic(s): International Security, Peace Operations, United Nations
GPOR Annual Compilation 2016
© Global Peace Operations Review
This is the second edition of the Global Peace Operations Review (GPOR) annual compilation. It is the first to collect a full year's worth of content from the website in a single publication. Using an online platform allows us to constantly innovate, and we plan to continue to evolve between these annual releases. Producing the annual compilation allows GPOR to curate this material thematically in a fully searchable and citable electronic book. If you're reading this in PDF format, any text highlighted in blue is hyperlinked back to the website.
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Sarah Cliffe, Alexandra Novosseloff, Hanny Megally , Richard Gowan, Jason Stearns, Ryan Rappa, Gizem Sucuoglu
Region/Country: Europe, Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa
Topic(s): Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises, International Security, Peace Operations, United Nations
Turkey In Somalia: Shifting Paradigms of Aid
Taliban Views on a Future State
The Basque Conflict and ETA: The Difficulties of an Ending
How Aleppo, Once the Center of U.N. Diplomacy, Became an Afterthought
Trump considering sending more troops to Afghanistan
It's Much Bigger Than Afghanistan: U.S. Strategy for a Transformed Region
Trump's statement at meeting with Netanyahu 'a reversal of a major policy of the U.S.government'