A Success Story? The British Intervention in Sierra Leone Revisited
The British intervention in the Sierra Leone civil war aimed to create long-term security for civilians. More than 15 years on, how sustainable is security in the country?
Category Archives: Peacekeeping Challenges and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
In the run-up to the UK-hosted summit on peacekeeping in September 2016, the Sustainable Security Programme is commissioning a series of articles and reports on Peacekeeping Challenges and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). A new micro-project on the Sustainable Security blogsite groups new articles on this theme and in May ORG will publish a major new report on the case for greater UK engagement with UN peace operations.
UN Peacekeeping and Counter-Terrorism
There are strong calls to give UN peacekeeping operations more robust mandates to engage in counter-terrorism tasks. But the idea of UN peacekeepers conducting counter-terrorism operations is not without its […]
Walking the Blue Line: Lebanon’s Security Sector Reform
Following civil war, re-establishing the legitimacy of a state’s army is a crucial part of security sector reform and international actors can aid this process. The capacity-building work of the […]
Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Unarmed civilian peacekeeping represents both a practical and compassionate response to suffering and violence and challenges the conventional view that peacekeeping can only be effective through military measures. What is […]
Libyan Lessons: Bring back the Responsibility to Rebuild
The 2011 Libyan intervention and the anarchy which ensued has highlighted an aspect of the responsibility to protect principle that has, to date, been overshadowed by the debates on the […]
Interview – Aidan Hehir
Aidan Hehir is a Reader in International Relations, and Director of the Security and International Relations Programme, at the University of Westminster. He has published a number of books on […]
Interview – Alex Bellamy
Alex J. Bellamy is professor of peace and conflict studies at the University of Queensland. His books include Kosovo and International Society (2002), Security Communities and Their Neighbours: Regional Fortresses […]
Carefully Managing Water Resources to Build Sustainable Peace
Carefully planned interventions in the water sector can be an integral part to all stages of a successful post-conflict process, from the end of conflict, through recovery and rebuilding, to […]
More than Taxi-drivers? Pitfalls and Prospects of Local Peacekeeping
The United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor Leste (UNMIT) represents an interesting case when discussing the impact of local peacekeeping on the overall success, or failure, of peacekeeping operations. Although […]
No Joy in Juba: South Sudan and R2P
South Sudan, the world’s newest country, currently risks slipping into a violent malaise. The crisis in South Sudan highlights very clearly some of the key problems surrounding the practical implementation […]