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  • Setting the Stage

    At times with rising and ever more complicated conflicts threatening global peace and security, we look for renewed commitment to United Nations peace operations, and we collectively search for new approaches. This series of articles will focus on United Nations policing within peace operations. It will take stock of long-term development, outline more recent achievements, Read more

  • International policing in peace operations

    “Restoring confidence and transforming security, justice, and economic institutions is possible within a generation, even in countries that have experienced severe conflict.”  World Development Report 2011, Conflict, Security and Development; The World Bank, April 2011; http://www.worldbank.org “The worst times in European history were in the fourteenth century, during and after the Hundred Years War, in Read more

  • UN Police, International Crime and Terrorism

    This post was published 04 February 2015 in the Huffington Post. It is a variation of what I said 23 December 2014, on this blog, carrying the title “Conflict, organised crime, extremism and terror, and corruption“. The difference is that the Huffington Post carries the views in my current capacity, endorsed by my Department, the Read more

  • Raw Feelings

    When I woke up this morning, this page   of the New York Times’ weekend edition lay around openly. It carries the highly pixelated shape of a person in an orange jumpsuit, hands tied behind his back, on his knees. It brought back immediately my memories of a specific moment yesterday. When the news exploded into Read more

  • On Trauma, Children, and Societies

    I introduced three categories of conditions in my previous blog entry (Trauma; addictive/compulsive behaviour; certain personality disorders), and three general categories of individuals who draw their appreciation of these conditions from their specific ability or inability to relate to them. Members of these categories either have never experienced one of these conditions personally, or they Read more

  • Rape as a Weapon of War

    Rape as a Weapon of War

    Originally posted on Global Consilium: When we discuss war, we cannot help but to think of the obvious and the inevitable: casualties, weapons, destruction, pain, winners and losers. Yet, how much time do we actually spend looking at the direct victims of war? Throughout history, rape victims have been often overlooked. One of the main… Read more