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Capturing UN Preventive Diplomacy Success: How and Why Does It Work?

The impact the UN can have in conflict settings and the many challenges in linking short-term interventions with longer-term sustainable peace.

01 Apr 2018

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Protecting the Legitimacy and Effectiveness of UN Sanctions

Challenges in UN Security Council sanctions, particularly in counter-terrorism.

01 Mar 2018

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Children and Extreme Violence: Cradled by Conflict

Understanding child recruitment by armed groups, including terrorist organizations, and identifying obstacles to releasing children from such groups.

01 Feb 2018

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Group Cohesion and Peace Processes

Internal cohesion of non-State armed groups during peace processes.

12 Sep 2017

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Diplomacy and Good Offices in the Prevention of Conflict

A joint flagship study between the UN the World Bank on the prevention of violent conflict.

01 Aug 2017

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Preventing Violent Urban Conflict

A joint flagship study on Preventing Violent Conflict between the UN and the World Bank.

01 Aug 2017

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UN Sanctions and the Prevention of Conflict

The UN and the World Bank are undertaking a joint flagship study on Preventing Violent Conflict.

01 Aug 2017

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25 Keys to Unlock the Financial Chains of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

Human trafficking poses severe financial risks, prompting a UN University workshop to recommend actions for disrupting financial ties.

11 Jul 2017

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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Centrifugal Forces - Exploring the Nexus of Global Illicit Flows and Local Conflict Dynamics

A new framework for thinking about the nexus of global illicit flows and local conflict dynamics.

01 May 2017

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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Assessing the Threat and Developing Solutions

Improving the international response in situations where crime and conflict intersected.

01 May 2017

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Crime-Conflict Nexus: The Hellish Road to Good Intentions - How To Break Political-Criminal Alliances in Contexts of Transition

How a sharpened analysis can reduce the role of illicit economies and crime in post-conflict and regime-change situations.

01 Apr 2017

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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Myanmar Maneuvers: How To Break Political-Criminal Alliances in Contexts of Transition

Policy recommendations to act against Myanmar’s illicit economies for the remaining time of Suu Kyi’s five-year term.

01 Apr 2017

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Conflict Prevention: A Case Study of Nepal

A joint flagship study between the UN and the World Bank on the prevention of violent conflict.

01 Apr 2017

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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Afghanistan Affectations: How To Break Political-Criminal Alliances in Contexts of Transition

Four possible inflection points where the international community and Afghan government could have fundamentally altered the course.

01 Apr 2017

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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Criminal Agendas and Peace Negotiations - The Case of Colombia

How the FARC and the Government of Colombia have charted a way forward with respect to criminal agendas in the context of peace negotiations.

01 Apr 2017

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Crime-Conflict Nexus: Going Straight: Criminal Spoilers, Gang Truces and Negotiated Transitions to Lawful Order

The role of negotiation in contexts where crime and conflict intersect.

01 Apr 2017

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Civil War Trends and the Changing Nature of Armed Conflict

Guiding adaptations in conflict management tools for international entities.

01 Mar 2017

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The Rise of High-Level Panels: Implications for the New UN Secretary-General

The evolving UN experience with high-level panels, the types of impact they have had, and how they might prove most valuable going forward.

26 Jan 2017

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Defining the Resilient City

The application of resilience for urban environments in contexts of fragility.

01 Dec 2016

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How António Guterres Can Advance the UN’s Protection Agenda

Guterres will need to pursue action on three fronts in order to advance the UN’s protection agenda.

04 Nov 2016