Tag: Conflict Resolution & Peacebuilding

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Human Rights & Development

PART III: The Post-Conflict Window: A Critical Opportunity to Advance Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Societies

Women’s roles and contributions to SSR Women can foster local ownership of SSR by facilitating dialogue between the local community, policy makers, and the security sector. In…

April 24, 2020

Human Rights & Development

PART II: The Post-Conflict Window: A Critical Opportunity to Advance Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Societies

Changing patterns in labor participation Women’s labor participation may increase during the conflict to fill the roles previously played by men. However, women tend to perform…

April 23, 2020

Human Rights & Development

PART I: The Post-Conflict Window: A Critical Opportunity to Advance Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Societies

Post-conflict reconstruction is not merely remodeling bridges and roads, but in fact refers to the transition from conflict to peace by rebuilding the affected country’s, …

April 21, 2020

Global Governance

Peace in Northern Ireland: A Model for Ending Wars?

The accord was hugely significant, not least because it was so unexpected. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, television news in the United Kingdom and Ireland would feature reports…

April 16, 2020

Global Governance

The Libyan Conflict: A Priority for the European Union?

A Country Torn in Two A few years after the 2011 NATO strikes, Libya has been engulfed in civil war, causing the country to split in two. The UN-recognized Government of National…

April 10, 2020

Conflict & Security

Collateral Damage No More: Urban Conflict, Explosive Weapons, and a Case Study in Multilateral Norm Building

Twenty years after the UN Security Council first adopted the resolution on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict—and 70 years after the Geneva Conventions—the…

November 21, 2019

Conflict & Security

The Trump-Kim Singapore Summit: After the Hype

Hyped Diplomacy Leading up to the meeting, media coverage was focused on Trump’s mercurial personality and idiosyncratic style. Indeed, Trump dispensed with many of the…

September 25, 2019

Dialogues

Lt. Col. Jillian Bishop on UN Peacekeeping and Female Inclusion

GJIA: Why did you decide to join the Canadian armed forces, and what led you to peacekeeping? JB: I joined the Canadian forces quite a while ago, in 1986. To me, it really…

April 17, 2019

Global Governance

Is Sustainable Peace in South Sudan a Realistic Expectation?

To resolve the South Sudanese conflict, it is important to acknowledge the role that the history of conflict in Sudan plays today. Although South Sudan gained independence from…

April 15, 2019

Dialogues

Dr. Luka Kuol on Postconflict Reconstruction in South Sudan

GJIA: Which sectors of the South Sudanese economy do you think have been the most affected by the conflict, and which sectors do you think are poised to be leaders in the…

February 23, 2019