Category: Peacekeeping & Conflict Prevention
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Protection of whistleblowers in Europe.
– Protecting whistleblowers is essential for ensuring a correct prosecution of organised crime. Prohibition of retaliation is lets hidden crimes to be unhidden. – How is whistleblowers’ protection reinforced in Europe? – European countries need to improve their efforts in guaranteeing that reporters can done it under proper conditions.
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Haiti’s Endless Crisis
-Haiti’s complex security crisis has worsened since 2024. -Evolving battlefield dynamics threaten greater gang control and violence. -Political externalities endanger Haiti’s economy and political legitimacy.
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Reconciling Cambodia and Thailand
Have international legal regimes been effective in mediating the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia? While each side pursues different international legal mechanisms, their differing incentives, goals, and national memories interfere with the peace process. In order to resolve the border conflict, the countries need to first reconcile their domestic politics and their mutual desire…
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South Sudan’s Potential Descent into Crisis
The main question is, how can history help us better understand and put the current 2025-2026 crisis into context. South Sudan’s stability is undermined by historic ethnic grievances, but also important to note but often left out in the discourse is by the extractive resources economic model that incentivizes leadership to use identity-based violence as…
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When Mediation Becomes Power Politics
Under what political conditions does peace mediation contribute to genuine conflict transformation? The article argues that peace mediation loses its normative core and political effectiveness when it is instrumentalized as coercive, interest-driven diplomacy. Sustainable peace mediation requires clearly drawn normative boundaries that strictly separate facilitative process support from political control.
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NATO-KFOR’s Deterrence in Northern Kosovo
Is NATO-KFOR effective enough in addressing the security threats Kosovo faces? KFOR either needs reform to better address the ongoing threats facing Kosovo and its institutions, or it should begin a transition to the Kosovo Security Forces (KSF). Urgent need for Kosovo’s Security Framework to evolve and become self-sufficient, ideally through modernising and transforming the…
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All Theory, No Practice?
Ever since its genesis, impartiality has epitomised a core principle of UN peacekeeping. However, developments towards robust peacekeeping, like the implementation of MONUSCO’s Force Intervention Brigade, catalysed doubts about whether the UN would be able to uphold its self-imposed commitment to impartiality on the ground. While the changing nature of conflict requires peace operations to…
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Water Diplomacy and River Basin Organisations
This article discusses how unilateral mega-infrastructure projects generate conditions of water stress and asks whether river basin organisations function as effective peacebuilding apparatus in the Eastern Nile Basin. This article considers the institutional design and technological mechanisms that support the trust-building and knowledge-sharing capacity of transboundary water governance.
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The IDSF on security challenges in the Middle East
How does the IDSF perceive the current security challenges in the Middle East?/ Israel’s understanding in the region is strongly based on historical roots and innovative power. Its security is based on national resilience as a core capacity to address external threats, but also profits from the high-tech sector for military applications. /According to IDSF,…
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Ending UNIFIL
What will happen when UNIFIL leaves Lebanon after years of peacekeeping? UNIFIL has been an important anchor of stability in the region. However, the mission failed to achieve its mission objective: The restoration of international peace and security. The Withdrawal will leave a power vacuum with and an uncertain future for an already fragile region.