Adaptive Peace Operations: Navigating the Complexity of Influencing Societal Change Without Causing Harm Cedric de Coning (2020) Adaptive Peace Operations: Navigating the…
Insights from Complexity Theory for Peace and Conflict Studies
This is a chapter in O. Richmond, G. Visoka (eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, that was published…
Measuring peace consolidation: for whom and for what purpose?
Published as Cedric de Coning (2020) Measuring Peace Consolidation: For Whom and for What Purpose?, Ethnopolitics, 19:3,320-323, DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2020.1759918 Symposium on Richard Caplan’s ‘Measuring Peace’ (Oxford University…
Utilising an Adaptive Approach to Leverage Greater Context-specific Knowledge and Local Participation in Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management in Africa
Published on 29 May 2020 in Africa Insights, Vol 49(3). Abstract The African Union (AU) and a number of sub-regional…
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,…
Complexity 4 Peace Operations 