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Recent UN Votes on Ukraine: What Needs to be Done to Maintain International Unity (Part I)

Horrific images of the loss of life and humanitarian suffering in Ukraine continue to come to light, including significant evidence of large-scale human rights abuses. As the war in Ukraine looks likely to enter a period of military consolidation and rearming, maintaining international pressure for a negotiated peace agreement that maintains territorial integrity and upholds international law will be crucial.

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Apr 04, 2022
Sarah Cliffe, Faiza Shaheen , Leah Zamore, Karina Gerlach, Nendirmwa Noel
Europe
Humanitarian Crises, Promoting and Defending Multilateralism

Financing Peacebuilding and the Triple Nexus: Organizational Structures and Incentives to Improve Coherence

In April 2022, international partners will meet in New York for a High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, on ensuring adequate financing for peacebuilding. In advance of the meeting, over the past year, the Swedish government has funded NYU Center on International Cooperation (CIC) to convene a group of advisory and research partners to stimulate new thinking and policy recommendations.
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Apr 04, 2022
Ed Laws
peacebuilding financing, high-level meeting on peacebuilding finance, UN peacebuilding commission, PBF, PBC, ODI
Peace and Prevention

Innovations in Donor Bureaucracies and the Implications for Peacebuilding Financing

Donors face increasing pressure to do more with less, even in the most fragile contexts. This policy brief analyzes how organizational factors within governments create obstacles for good peacebuilding financing—and proposes options for overcoming them.

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Apr 04, 2022
Ed Laws
Good Peacebuilding Financing, Prevention and Peacebuilding

Good Peacebuilding Financing: Now or Never?

Whether peace is threatened by a rogue neighbor, grievances between groups, or gangs in the streets terrorizing communities, sustaining peace and preventing conflict and violence will always be a better strategy than correcting after the fact. Yet the commitment to peacebuilding—and the predictable, long-term financing it requires—remains dismal.
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Mar 22, 2022
Paige Arthur, Betty Nyambura Wainaina-Maina
Good Peacebuilding Financing, peacebuilding, finance
Peace and Prevention

Tshisekedi’s Third Year: The End of the Good Days?

This new poll report published by the Bureau d’études, de recherche et de consulting international (BERCI), with the Congo Research Group (CRG) and Ebuteli, its research partner in the DRC reveals a growing popular mistrust of elected representatives, including the government and the opposition. The decline in President Félix Tshisekedi’s popularity has not benefited his potential competitors in the next presidential election, expected in late 2023.

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Mar 24, 2022
Congo Research Group

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