After many years of bloodshed in Syria, it is crucial to examine how the UN’s peacekeeping progress in other contexts could inform a new mission in Syria underpinned by regional actors, a mandate to fight terrorism, and a strong political strategy.
Nearly three years after adoption of the SDGs, much greater effort is required to improve SDG 16 implementation links between national and subnational governance institutions.
If peacekeeping is heading in the direction of more proactive use of force in the most dangerous conflicts in the world, is there a role for the historically risk-averse Japan?
