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China’s flagship economic and development project – coined the Belt and Road Initiative – runs through many fragile and conflict-affected countries. What are the factors China will need to consider to ensure their investments contribute to peace and security?
8 October 2018
Humanitarian workers are providing vital services for many communities in South Sudan. David Otim and Elizabeth White outline some of the challenges aid workers face and explore how humanitarian responses can contribute to peace rather than conflict.
3 October 2018
Conducting research to improve conflict prevention and peacebuilding programmes comes with its share of challenges. Ilona Howard, consortium manager for the Peace Research Partnership (PRP), outlines some of the ethical and practical challenges researchers face and what we can do to address them.
1 October 2018
Neha Zaigham, Saferworld’s policy adviser in Pakistan, attended a recent dialogue between Pakistan and Afghanistan where delegates discussed a range of bilateral issues including peace and security, trade, media relations and refugee repatriation. This blog shares her thoughts on how the ‘Beyond Boundaries’ dialogue process is going.
27 September 2018
Today, a third of the world’s poor live in fragile states, with this proportion set to rise to half in 2018 and nearly two-thirds in 2030. In the UK, political parties have a range of views on how to best fund work to address conflict and fragility, all with their own strengths and weaknesses. Saferworld’s Lewis Brooks sets out key elements that should be reflected in any funding stream designed to address violent conflict.
25 September 2018
A joint statement to draw attention to the urgent need for peace in South Sudan.
21 September 2018
In this article Dylan Hendrickson looks at the challenges of security integration in Myanmar and what the country can learn from the experiences of other conflict-affected contexts.
14 September 2018
To mark the end of our women's project in Yemen, a celebration ceremony was held in Aden to review the impact of the work.
14 September 2018
Increased pressure on UN peacekeeping operations to engage in counter-terrorism risk bogging down blue helmets in unwinnable wars and destroying their claim to impartiality in the process. This short-term thinking could change UN peacekeeping as we know it.
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There has been too little discussion of the enormous risks that counter-terrorism involvement in UN peace operations poses for UN efforts to maintain and build peace.
6 September 2018