How climate change can help heal conflicts—not just fuel them
WebNov 10, 2022 · Increasingly, environmental cooperation is solving local conflicts around the world that are caused in part by global warming. By Peter Schwartzstein. November 10, 2022. • 10 min read. For...
Local peacebuilding & What works and why - Peace Insight
WebThe mandate of most community-based peace structures is to resolve local conflicts non-violently. Among the issues they deal with are disputes over access to natural resources, political violence linked to elections, and violence perpetrated by armed groups.
Stabilization and Local Conflicts: Communal and Civil War in …
WebJul 31, 2019 · Scholars have long argued that local conflicts need to be integrated into the analysis of civil war and peacebuilding. Yet, systematic research of the linkages between communal violence and civil war is sparse. This contribution connects communal violence research to the stabilization and peacekeeping debate.
Local Conflict, Local Peacekeeping • Stimson Center
WebJanuary 31, 2017. Download. Click Here to Read the Report. Although United Nations (U.N.) peacekeeping missions are mandated in response to major national- or international-level conflicts, missions are often confronted with a variety of …
WebThis section argues that local conflict management can in fact be essential to fulfilling two core pillars of peacekeeping missions’ mandates: the protection of civilians and support to political processes. Protection of Civilians Local conflicts can present significant challenges for peacekeeping missions mandated to protect civilians.
Local Peace Processes and the Protection of Civilians
WebSep 27, 2019 · Resolving local conflicts between non-state armed groups, or between communities, is key to reducing violence against civilians. The United Nations is often involved in supporting local peace processes and seems to enhance the prospects for local conflict resolution.
Webtrajectories on local level conflicts in Indonesia. It seeks to develop a framework to answer key questions that current theoretical and research strands do not address. How and why, for example, do some local-level conflicts escalate into large-scale violence, while others do not? How do societal structures
WebLocal conflicts are often perceived as intractable, deeply rooted in ancestral antagonisms, and beyond the reach of the international community’s policies and solutions. They take place at the...
United Nations Peacekeeping Locally: Enabling Conflict Resolution ...
WebJul 17, 2019 · Civilian peacekeepers may have contributed to this result. This study provides robust evidence that UNOCI’s efforts to strengthen local conflict resolution capacity through intergroup dialogue activities decreased the average risk of communal violence.
Identifying local conflict trends in North and West Africa
Web3 days ago · The latest enhancement to the SCDi brings two new features to aid the identification of local conflict trends. First, the tool now identifies regions that are newly entering into or exiting from conflict. This allows a more detailed picture of how the geography of conflict is spreading or contracting within and across national borders.
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