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The Highs and Lows of Women, Peace and Security in 2024, and Looking Ahead to 2025 - IPI Global Observatory This year marks the 25th anniversary of Resolution 1325 and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, presenting an opportunity to reenergize and recommit to the women, ...

🚨NEW on the Global Observatory: The Highs and Lows of Women, Peace and Security in 2024, and Looking Ahead to 2025, by Olivia Parsons, Phoebe Donnelly, and Evyn Papworth @ipinst #WomenPeaceSecurity

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Women's Civil Society Organizations: Key Partners for Gender-Transformative Disaster Response - IPI Global Observatory As climate threats escalate, the urgency of fostering genuine civil-military partnerships becomes clear. The challenge is to move beyond superficial collaboration to create genuine, sustained partners...

🔔 New on the Global Observatory: Women’s Civil Society Organizations: Key Partners for Gender-Transformative Disaster Response, by Maryruth Belsey Priebe #WomenPeaceSecurity

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How to Be a Good Ancestor in Support of the UN Declaration on Future Generations - IPI Global Observatory As we enter 2025 at a tumultuous time, it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture, and of what is required from all of us to create a world that works for all. The UN Declaration on Future Generat...

🔔NEW🔔 How to Be a Good Ancestor in Support of the UN Declaration on Future Generations, by Jude Currivan, Youssef Mahmoud & Grant Storry

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An Indefinite Humanitarian Carve-out for the ISIL/al-Qaida UN Sanctions Regime: What it Means and What Comes Next - IPI Global Observatory In December 2022, the UN Security Council adopted the landmark Resolution 2664, creating a cross-cutting humanitarian carve-out for asset freezes under all UN sanctions regimes. Earlier this month, th...

🚨NEW on the Global Observatory: An Indefinite Humanitarian Carve-out for the ISIL/al-Qaida UN Sanctions Regime: What it Means and What Comes Next By Lauren McGowan and Alice Debarre.

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The Case for Redirecting Feminist Efforts Away from the UN Security Council and Toward the General Assembly - IPI Global Observatory There is a strong argument to be made that enduring failures to effectively integrate disarmament into the WPS agenda at the UN Security Council mean that it is now timely to redirect feminist efforts...

🔔 NEW: "The Case for Redirecting Feminist Efforts Away from the UN Security Council and Toward the General Assembly" by Catherine O’Rourke, prof. of Global Law at Durham Law School

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Can the G77 Be the Voice of a Rising Global South? - IPI Global Observatory Based on interviews with UN delegates and independent experts, as well as the analysis of voting patterns and UN meeting records, the authors' new study examines the G77’s internal decision-making pro...

🚨NEW on @ipinst.bsky.social GO: Can the G77 Be the Voice of a Rising Global South? By Max-Otto Baumann and Anna Novoselova from from the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

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As ATMIS Looks to Withdraw, the Risk of Large-Scale al-Shabaab Success in Southern Somalia is High - IPI Global Observatory ATMIS will end on December 31, 2024, and be replaced by a new African Union Stabilization and Support Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM).  United Nations Security Council approval will have to be given this ...

🔔NEW: "As ATMIS Looks to Withdraw, the Risk of Large-Scale al-Shabaab Success in Southern Somalia is High" by Colin Robinson

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Reconciling International Intervention with Haitian-Led Solutions: Interview with Gloria Blaise - IPI Global Observatory In June, Kenyan police began deploying to Haiti as part of a Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission aimed at helping restore security in the country. The mission faces a daunting task. In this i...

🔔 NEW: Reconciling International Intervention with Haitian-Led Solutions: Interview with Gloria Blaise, Director of Research Development at Haïti Policy House; by @albertbtrithart.bsky.social from @ipinst.bsky.social

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What Is the State of UN and Regional Interventions in Eastern DRC? Interview with Pascal Kambale  - IPI Global Observatory In this interview with Albert Trithart, Pascal Kambale, a Congolese researcher and human rights lawyer based in Goma, helps unpack the complex array of security actors present in the eastern DRC and h...

🚨NEW: What Is the State of UN and Regional Interventions in Eastern DRC? Interview with Congolese researcher and human rights lawyer, Pascal Kambale; by @ipinst.bsky.social @albertbtrithart.bsky.social

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Resolution 2734: What the Update to the UN Sanctions Regime Means for Tackling Terrorist Use of Sexual Violence - IPI Global Observatory This summer, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2734--a critical step forward for the global campaign to end gender-based violence, and paving the way for greater accountability for conflict-r...

🔔 NEW 🔔 Resolution 2734: What the Update to the UN Sanctions Regime Means for Tackling Terrorist Use of Sexual Violence. By Naureen Chowdhury Fink and Cyndee Trinh

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What Might Be in Store for the United Nations under a Second Trump Presidency? - IPI Global Observatory Rough times are ahead for the United Nations (UN) with the election of Donald Trump to a second term. Although we do not yet know the details of the incoming administration’s UN policy agenda, the exp...

What’s in store for the U.N. under a 2nd Trump presidency? Rough times says @telegramwriter.bsky.social especially on the finances, but it’s been down this road before. Question is how will leadership & other states respond: analysis @ipinst.bsky.social GO:

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