While growing geopolitical rifts often complicate or block international cooperation, global and regional multilateral bodies including the United Nations, international financial institutions, G7 and G20 still play an important role in crisis management, alongside regional organisations like the European Union and African Union. Crisis Group analyses diplomatic trends in multilateral forums, as well as the performance of international peacemaking, peacekeeping and conflict prevention efforts. Working closely with diplomats and international officials in New York, Brussels, Addis Ababa, Geneva and other international centres, we advise on mandates and strategies for mediation efforts and peace operations, as well as contributing ideas for institutional reform efforts.
The Gaza war has led to acrimony at UN headquarters, with critics accusing the U.S. and its allies of hypocrisy in dealing with international crises. The rows are indeed divisive, but many member states seem not to want them to obstruct all other diplomacy.
This week on Ripple Effect, Michael is joined by Leslie Vinjamuri, U.S. and Americas program director at Chatham House and Richard Gowan, Crisis Group’s UN director, to discuss how the November elections might change U.S. approach to multilateralism and Washington’s relations with the UN.
In this video, Lord (Mark) Malloch Brown discusses the precarious state of liberalism and democracy, and the bearing that this has upon multilateralism.
This article was originally published in the World Politics Review.
In late December 2023, the UN Security Council signed on to a framework for channelling UN funds to African Union-led peacekeeping missions. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts Daniel Forti and Liesl Louw-Vaudran unpack the agreement and its implications.
With deadly conflict raging in countries across the continent, the African Union has much to do in helping make peace in the year ahead. This briefing identifies eight tasks in particular need of the organisation’s time and attention.
Originally published in Just Security.
Crisis Group’s Watch List identifies ten countries or regions at risk of deadly conflict or escalation thereof in 2024. In these places, early action, driven or supported by the EU and its member states, could enhance prospects for peace and stability.
The U.N. is losing credibility as big power tensions rise.
[U.N. diplomats] have never really shaken off the suspicion that Trump might return to power.
Russian diplomats see the war in the Middle East as a huge opportunity to reset their position at the U.N.
The length and intensity of Israel’s operations in Gaza have left many UN members convinced that a ceasefire is essential.
A lot of [the] time now, the U.N.’s role has been reduced to geopolitical ambulance-chasing.
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