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Predictions for the Secretary-General selection process

Are UN staff actually overpaid?

Reimbursement: A missing piece in discussions on the effectiveness of UN peace operations

Re-imagining the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations

Can changing the scales of assessments help mitigate the liquidity crisis?

Getting the UN Support Office in Haiti off the ground

How do you solve a problem like "within existing resources"?

The contingency plan for peacekeeping financing, explained

Is the U.S. at risk of losing its vote at the UN?

What do we mean by modular approaches to UN peace operations?

What now for Security Council resolution 2719?

UN80: Nobody wants this

Restructuring the UN peace and security pillar redux

UN support offices and the primacy of the military

In defense of unread UN reports

Stop feeding the beast: Closing the planning gap in the Secretariat

How to prioritize and sequence mandates

Interviews

Writings

Towards a full spectrum of UN peace operations

The emerging contours of UN policy under Trump 2.0

Lessons from HIPPO, ten years on

Fiddling while the UN runs out of cash

Budgets, bureaucracy, and the blame game in UN peacekeeping

Thoughts on the UN80 mandate review

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