Yesterday, in an otherwise bellicose and nationalist speech, President Donald Trump did single out UN Peacekeeping as a worthy endeavor of the United Nations. “I want to salute the work of the United Nations in seeking to address the problems...
On Wednesday evening, Nikki Haley touted a nearly $600 million cut to the UN Peacekeeping budget, boasting this as a win for the United States. “Just 5 months into our time here, we’ve cut over half a billion $$$ from...
The budget passed by Congress to avert a shutdown will fund government operations through the end of the fiscal year in October. In general, the budget is close to previous years’ spending on key international and foreign aid accounts, at...
Around the world there are a number of conflicts and disputes that have essentially been frozen in place for many years — and in some cases many decades. These include territorial disputes in places like Cyprus and Kashmir; and of...
For the better part of three months, there has been a steady stream of horrific news, mostly from the Central African Republic, about UN Peacekeepers sexually abusing people they are meant to protect. As recently as last month, there were...
On Friday, the United Nations released an exceedingly disturbing report that showed the number of allegations of sexual exploitation or abuse against UN staff increased in 2015. There were 99 allegations across the UN system, with the majority–69–involving personnel from...
In a rather extraordinary move, Ban Ki Moon today demanded the resignation of the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic over allegations that peacekeepers engaged in some heinous acts. These latest accusations, laid bare in a report...
A panel of independent experts recently published an exhaustive and hotly awaited report on the future of UN Peacekeeping. The panel was lead by Jose Ramos Horta, the Nobel Laureate and former president of East Timor–a country where peacekeeping played...
Jean-Marie Guéhenno is the president of the International Crisis Group and long serving head of UN Peacekeeping. He comes from an interesting background–his father was a well known French intellectual whose experience in World War I made him a pacifist....
