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Burundi: An Unlikely International Success Story

By Elizabeth Dickinson | Dec 20, 2011

BUJUMBURA—A decade and a half ago, the world looked on—unwilling and unable to help—as genocide swept through the villages and towns of Burundi and Rwanda. In 1993 in Burundi, as many as 25,000 were massacred—an even which ignited a brutal seven-year war. A year later in Rwanda, 80,000 perished. The international community watched and did little.

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Sudan: The Limits of Intervention

By Roger Nokes | Nov 16, 2011

On November 10, the Sudanese military bombed a refugee camp in the newly-separated state of Southern Sudan. Just four months after the two countries split, the strikes-which hit the Yida refugee camp that houses some 20,000 people-were the most visible signs yet of the rising tension between Khartoum and the nascent government in Juba.

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A Place to Speak Openly, Just Across the Street From the UN

By Warren Hoge | Sep 12, 2011

In the winter of 2008, Terje Rod-Larsen, the president of the International Peace Institute, was talking to me about my becoming the organization’s vice president and director of external relations, and the selling point he chose to show me was a bustling construction site on the top floor of the UN Plaza building in New York, where the institute is based.

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Pakistani Is UN's Female Police Officer of the Year

A police officer from Pakistan who has been aiding victims of domestic violence and trafficking in Timor-Leste is the winner of the 2011 International Female Police Peacekeeper Award.

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A First Taste of Freedom for South Sudan

By Alma Hidalgo | Jul 08, 2011

As South Sudan, the world’s newest country, prepares for its independence from Sudan on July 9, it is also likely to become the 193rd United Nations member when the General Assembly votes on the matter on July 14.

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How Peacekeeping Missions Help Stabilize Post-Conflict Zones

By Dulcie Leimbach | Jul 05, 2011

Michel Bonnardeaux, a public affairs officer in the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, spoke in June with UNA-USA members nationwide on a teleconference moderated by Roger Nokes, membership coordinator for UNA-USA, which publishes The InterDependent.

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A Chilean to Run Haitian Mission

By Dulcie Leimbach | May 30, 2011

Mariano Fernández, a former minister of foreign affairs for Chile, was named special envoy for Haiti by the UN this month. Fernández will run the peacekeeping mission, known as Minustah, at its base in the capital of Port-au-Prince. He replaces Edmond Mulet of Guatemala, who headed the mission after Hédi Annabi of Tunisia was killed in the January 2010 earthquake.

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Protecting Civilians Will Never Be Easy

By Thomas G. Weiss | Apr 13, 2011

Why was the United Nations useful in Libya and belatedly in Côte d’Ivoire? As US ambassador to the UN, the late Richard Holbrooke argued that blaming the UN for lousy performances was like blaming the hapless New York Knicks on Madison Square Garden.

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The Facts, Figures and Reasons Behind Violent Conflicts

By JiHo Choi | Apr 04, 2011

At least 250,000 people die each year in armed conflicts – mostly related to intrastate violence, even as the number of civil wars has decreased since the mid-1990s. A story exists behind every one of the battles and those who suffer and are killed in them.

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Moving Toward an Afghan Endgame

By Jeffrey Laurenti | Mar 28, 2011

On March 15, Gen. David Petraeus, commander of international forces in Afghanistan, was in Washington detailing the progress that the allied military campaign has made in reversing the Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan. On March 22, the United Nations renewed its mandate for its mission in Afghanistan.

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