Cliffe: UN Peace and Security Reform

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• “UN Peace and Security Reform: Cautious Steps in the Right Direction | Center on International Cooperation.”
• https://cic.nyu.edu/publications/un-peace-and-security-reform-cautious-steps-right-direction
• article analyzes antonio guterres adoped High-Level Independent Panel on UN Peace Operations (HIPPO), advisory group of experts (AGE), and UNSCR 1325
• sec-gen proposes changing the department of political affairs to include peacebuilding, and changing the DPO to manage large field missions
• resolves:
  • no more overlap between DPA and DPKO (both missions had become political and operational)
  • allows UN to deploy a “spectrum of operations”
  • mission transitions should be made smoother

• potential issues:
  • institutional support functions are still separated from the peacebuilding groups
  • peacebuilding support no longer has a direct line to SG, must be through the DPPA, and becoming tied to a single pillar
  • no discussions of what gender looks like
  • maangement reforms are not addressed
  • authority is delegated, but fiscal responsibilities are not
  • politics remain the same: USGs for Political Affairs and PO are the same, held by the united states and france