Adaptive Peace Operations: Navigating the Complexity of Influencing Societal Change Without Causing Harm

Adaptive Peace Operations: Navigating the Complexity of Influencing Societal Change Without Causing Harm Cedric de Coning (2020) Adaptive Peace Operations: Navigating the … More

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 … More

Towards a Comprehensive Performance Assessment and Reporting System for UN Peacekeeping operations

Full report available here: https://www.nupi.no/publikasjoner/cristin-pub/towards-a-comprehensive-results-based-reporting-and-performance-assessment-framework-for-un-peacekeeping-operations Executive Summary: This report considers the tools and processes that DPKO and DFS currently use … More

What Peacekeeping Can Learn from Peacebuilding: The Peacebuilding Dimensions of the A4P

Published in the Global Observatory on 29 June 2018, available at: https://theglobalobservatory.org/2018/06/what-peacekeeping-can-learn-from-peacebuilding-a4p/ Secretary-General António Guterres launched the Action … More

United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order

This book has been published by Palgrave and is available under an Open Access arrangement at: Palgrave MacMillan Amazon It … More

Sustaining Peace: Can a new approach change the UN?

Cedric de Coning, Sustaining Peace: can a new approach change the UN?, Global Governance Spotlight, 3/2018, Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden … More

Adaptive Peacebuilding

Article published in a special issue of International Affairs 94:2, “Peacebuilding in an era of Pragmatism” by guest editors: … More

Can the AU Finance its own peace operations, and if so, what would the impact be?

(contribution to the Annual Report of African Union Peace Operations, published in 2018 by the African Union and the Kofi … More

Peace enforcement in Africa: Doctrinal distinctions between the African Union and United Nations

Abstract When the United Nations (UN) Security Council needs to authorize a peace enforcement operation in Africa, its partner of … More

The Unintended Consequences of Peacekeeping

Edited by Chiyuki Aoi, Cedric de Coning & Ramesh Thakur United Nations University Press, 2007 Copy available at: https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:2483/pdf9789280811421.pdf Abstract: Peacekeeping … More