This book has been published by Palgrave and is available under an Open Access arrangement at: Palgrave MacMillan Amazon It…
Adaptive Peacebuilding
Article published in a special issue of International Affairs 94:2, “Peacebuilding in an era of Pragmatism” by guest editors:…
Rising Powers & Peacebuilding
Rising Powers and Peacebuilding: Breaking the Mold?, edited by Charles T. Call and Cedric de Coning (Palgrave, 2017) is available for…
UN Peacekeeping doctrine in a new era
© 2017 – Routledge (http://bit.ly/2peaceopsdoctrine) Amazon (http://amzn.to/2kYXzAL) CIC interview on this book: http://peaceoperationsreview.org/interviews/cedric-de-coning-adapting-the-un-peacekeeping-doctrine-to-stabilization-missions-protection-of-civilians-mandates-and-new-threats/ Video and report from book launch seminar at IPI on…
Complexity Thinking for Peacebuilding Practice and Evaluation
Synopsis: This book covers the design, evaluation, and learning for international interventions aiming to promote peace. More specifically, it reconceptualises…
UN Peacebuilding Architecture: The First 10 Years
Since its establishment, the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) has been involved in peacebuilding processes in more than 20 countries.…
The Future of African Peace Operations
Available from Zed Books or in North America from: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo23364698.html Or open source ebook available here: https://www.academia.edu/24792227/Future_of_African_Peace_Operations_From_Janjaweed_to_Boko_Haram CIC interview on…
The BRICS and Coexistence: An Alternative Vision of World Order
The grouping consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) was initially meant to be nothing more than clever investment…
Examining the Longer-Term Effects of COVID-19 on UN Peacekeeping Operations
Published in Global Observatory on 13 May 2020 The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has forced United Nations peacekeeping missions to reassess…
The impact of COVID-19 on the performance of peace operations
Published on IPI’s Global Observatory on 2 April 2020: https://theglobalobservatory.org/2020/04/impact-covid-19-peace-operations/ Also published in Norwegian on forsvaretsforum.no on 2 April: https://bit.ly/2wcPRu8…
COVID-19 and the African Union – challenges, prospects and side-effects
This version has been published as a NUPI Policy Brief (7/2020): A shorter version has been published by African Arguments…
Principled Peacekeeping Works
Cedric de Coning, Senior Research Fellow, NUPI & Senior Advisor, ACCORD Published on 28 February 2020 on the Political Settlements…
China’s Evolving Approach to UN Peacekeeping in Africa
Cedric de Coning & Kari Osland Full report available here: https://www.nupi.no/en/Publications/CRIStin-Pub/China-s-Evolving-Approach-to-UN-Peacekeeping-in-Africa Summary: China’s new, assertive role in UN peacekeeping, especially…
Multilateral cooperation in the area of climate-related security and development risks in Africa
Background Paper for UN75 Sub-regional Meeting on Multilateral Cooperation to Address Climate Related Security and Development Risks in Africa, 3-4 March 2020, Dakar,…
Adaptive Mediation
Published: Conflict Trends, 2/2018, Durban: ACCORD, available at: https://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/adaptive-mediation/ Cedric de Coning and Stephen Gray[1] Introduction When the…
Is peace operations effective? Emerging trends and observations from the studies of the Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network
This blog has been published in: The Global Observatory, 14 November 2019: https://theglobalobservatory.org/2019/11/are-un-peace-operations-effective/ EPON website, 7 November 2019: https://effectivepeaceops.net/2019/11/07/are-peace-operations-effective-emerging-trends-and-observations-from-the-studies-of-the-effectiveness-of-peace-operations-network/ Is…
UN Peacekeeping Operations in a New Multipolar World Order
Abstract: How will United Nations peacekeeping operations adapt to the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world order? The…
Complexity thinking and adaptive peacebuilding: What can it contribute to our understanding of inclusive political settlements?
Published under this title in Accord (Issue 28, 2019), available here: https://www.c-r.org/accord/inclusion-peace-processes/complexity-thinking-and-adaptive-peacebuilding We often refer to peace processes being…
