On 21 November 2015, during ACCORD’s 2015 Africa Peace Award celebration, ACCORD’s Founder and Executive Director Vasu Gounden made a call for the United Nations (UN) to convene the first
JAOs receive specialised training in jurisprudence for the sake of sustainable peace in post-conflict environments.
Representatives from UN agencies in 15 countries met to discuss ways to improve inclusion of women and youth in peacebuilding.
Newly founded organisation strives to strengthen peace operations by expanding knowledge and understanding of history, facilitating dialogues and debunking myths.
Gauging how fairly African countries are represented in the newly reformed UN Security Council.
Analysing the necessity of integrating peacebuilding components into national policies in order to foster long-term development and sustainable peace.
Details of the UN’s multi-phase plan to increase the percentage of female leaders among its field operations in peacekeeping missions.
In the context of the United Nations’ 70 year anniversary and the 2015 review of UN Peacebuilding Architecture, Mr. Nyuykonge examines the architecture and efficacy of UN’s peacebuilding and peacekeeping interventions.
In the context of the 2015 United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture Review, Ms. Campisi and Ms. Pereira examine the United Nations’ engagement with civil society in peacebuilding, and the ways in which this could be strengthened.
In this post, Ms. Wielenga seeks to encourage public debate on the role of transitional justice in the peacebuilding field, and presents the conditions under which transitional justice can contribute to sustainable peace.