The international response to Darfur
By (12/05/2008)
The armed conflict and humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan has become a rallying cry for Western civil society, and is held to represent the worst series of ongoing human rights violations in the world today. Yet try as it might, the international community has not been able to stall the bloodshed, nor has the government in Khartoum shown great interest in pacifying the restive region. On Wednesday April 9, FRIDE held a closed seminar on international organisations’ response to the Darfur crisis. These are some of the questions that most concerned seminar participants.
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The UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti: analysis and recommendations for future mandates of the Mission
By (16/04/2008)
On 28 January 2008, representatives of Haitian civil society, donor governments and the United Nations were brought together by FRIDE in collaboration with the Canadian Permanent Mission to the United Nations to discuss the future of the MINUSTAH stabilisation mission in Haiti. This report relates the key points of discussion and recommendations from this meeting, divided into three main areas: the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti, state-building and regional cooperation.
Haiti: voices of the actors, a research project on the UN mission
By (15/02/2008)
This Working Paper from FRIDE analyses the violence in Haiti and the response of the international community involved in implementing the MINUSTAH mandate. The information gathered in the interviews allows the actors to make their voices heard on many aspects of the situation in Haiti and to communicate their ideas to each other.
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Statebuilding: can the international community get it right?
By (14/01/2008)
Statebuilding efforts by the international community in states in crisis have had limited success. Most analyses have sought to improve outcomes by examining “lessons learned” in one or more cases. This publication take a step beyond previous critiques and questions the approach of the industry as a whole, asking: Can the international community effectively build states?
The responsibility to protect: from an ethical principle to an effective policy
By (23/11/2007)
The responsibility to protect represents a significant leap from previous debates, especially since the beginning of the 1990s, around the protection of groups threatened by genocide or violations of their human rights. The challenge remains for this ethical principle to become an effective policy.
