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Amid Turmoil in Lebanon and Syria, What Future for UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East?
The Lebanon and Golan Heights missions show certain ability to separate warring sides and support ceasefires, but with serious limitations.

Syria’s Recent Escalation: An Urgent Need for Active and Effective U.S. Role
The geopolitical factors driving the recent escalation in Syria and an urgent call for a renewed U.S. strategy in Syria.

The Just Security Podcast: Russia’s Program of Coerced Adoption of Ukraine’s Children
A new report has identified 314 individual Ukrainian children that Russian officials transferred from Ukraine to Russia for coerced adoption.

Sudan’s War Victims Survived Killings; Now They Face Starvation
Children dying in a camp in southern Sudan shows the toll as the warring parties willfully obstruct food and other aid.

European Court Intervention by Bosnia’s International High Representative Risks Limiting the Country’s Potential
Following his recommendation would secure the grip of ethnonationalists and those responsible for the “fragile” conditions he laments.

The Just Security Podcast: Key Trends and Takeaways from the 2024 U.N. General Assembly’s High-Level Week
More than 130 world leaders just completed a week of meetings in New York for the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly. This high-level week, as it’s called,…

The UN’s New Pact for the Future: A Milestone That Can Set a Path for Change
How the recent summit could spur long-overdue structural changes necessary for more inclusive, networked, and effective global governance.

The United Nations in Hindsight: Does the Security Council Matter?
It is not written in the cards that international law will fall apart, and that impunity will reign. Rather, peace and its parts, including respect for international law, are an…

The Just Security Podcast: What to Expect from the 2024 U.N. General Assembly
Unpacking the key themes around this year’s U.N. General Assembly is Richard Gowan, the U.N. Director at the International Crisis Group.

UNGA 79: Expert Analysis & Resources
Just Security's analysis of issues likely to surface during this year's General Assembly, as well as archives and additional resources.

U.N. General Assembly High-Level Week 2024 : What Experts Are Looking For
A slate of top analysts eyes the prospects and how debates are likely to unfold amid backsliding on development and on global cooperation.

Guide to the Formal and Informal Agendas at the 2024 UN General Assembly Summit
An expert assessment of where the lines of diplomacy will be drawn.