Author: Leah Zamore / Topic: United Nations

Author:: Paige Arthur, Céline Monnier, and Leah Zamore
Publication Date:: 09-2020
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Center on International Cooperation
Abstract:: Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly released secretary-general’s report on peacebuilding and sustaining peace contains, as usual, a wealth of examples of the steps that the United Nations (UN) system is taking to implement the sustaining peace resolutions. It also suggests a welcome and surprising finding: the conflict prevention agenda—once thought to be on life-support at the UN—has found new vigor. This briefing examines the new report, finding that it moves the prevention agenda forward in several key respects, from deepening political buy-in among member states and partners, to a greater embrace of conflict-sensitive approaches in the field. The briefing also identifies key opportunities for prevention to take root in the UN’s practice—including continued strengthening of expertise on prevention; deepening partnerships with the IFIs; leveraging links with violence reduction initiatives, especially relating to SDG16; focusing on area-based approaches to address multiple risks; and more action on humanitarian-development-peacebuilding nexus approaches.
Topic:: Conflict Prevention, United Nations, Peace, and COVID-19
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Leah Zamore, Knut Gerlach, and Ben Oppenheim
Publication Date:: 04-2020
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Center on International Cooperation
Abstract:: Describing the coronavirus pandemic as a “global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations” the UN has in recent days called for the launch of a large-scale, coordinated, and comprehensive multilateral response to combat the virus and its attendant economic and social consequences. It has published a set of action plans that aim to avert the potentially catastrophic impact of the virus, especially on the world’s most vulnerable and impoverished communities.
Topic:: United Nations, Governance, Reform, Multilateralism, Humanitarian Crisis, and COVID-19
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Leah Zamore, Karina Gerlach, and Ben Oppenheim
Publication Date:: 04-2020
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Center on International Cooperation
Abstract:: Describing the coronavirus pandemic as a “global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations” the UN has in recent days called for the launch of a large-scale, coordinated, and comprehensive multilateral response to combat the virus and its attendant economic and social consequences. It has published a set of action plans that aim to avert the potentially catastrophic impact of the virus, especially on the world’s most vulnerable and impoverished communities.
Topic:: United Nations, Governance, Multilateralism, Humanitarian Crisis, and COVID-19
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Leah Zamore
Publication Date:: 12-2019
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Center on International Cooperation
Abstract:: Crises In 2016, global policymakers came together to confront a critical policy dilemma: what is, or should be, the role of humanitarian action in a world beset by “permanent emergencies” that do not end, in which the root causes are overwhelmingly structural and political? One major outcome of the summit was the commitment to a “new way of working” based on linking the “triple nexus” of humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding (HDP) efforts. Our new report shares the results of a major independent review of the implementation of this process.
Topic:: United Nations, Fragile States, Crisis Management, and Humanitarian Crisis
Political Geography:: Africa, Middle East, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, and Chad

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