In the first article of our December edition of the Monitor, Mr. Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General to the African Union and Head of the
The ASF was successful as a political project, but, the evolution of peace operations over the past 20 years in Africa differed in important ways from the assumptions made in the original ASF concept.
Leveraging Partnerships in Training for Complex Peace Operation Environments.
We begin this edition of the Monitor with a contribution from Cheryl Hendricks, who writes about rethinking peace and security in the current global context. She argues that existing normative frameworks
The AU and UN are deepening and strengthening their strategic partnership in a new era of networked multilateralism.
The last decade has witnessed cooperation between the Nordic region and Africa to address increasingly complex civil conflicts.
On Friday 16th June, Mali’s Foreign Minister, Abdoulaye Diop, told the UN Security Council, that its 13,000-strong stabilisation mission (MINUSMA) should leave without delay. MINUSMA has tried to stabilise Mali
It is time now – more than ever – for the UN Security Council to endorse one of the funding models outlined by Secretary-General Guterres for the predictable, sustainable, and flexible financing of AU-led operations and modalities for AU missions to access UN accessed contributions.
UN peacekeeping is now under new pressure because of a significant loss of trust between its three large stabilisation operations and their host countries
It is important to underscore that peace and stability continue to be elusive in the eastern DRC and the region as the conflict goes back decades