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A new vision and operational strategy to help humanitarians adapt aid systems to fragmentation while safeguarding core principles, sustaining access, and maintaining legitimacy.
Rebecca Thompson
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So Long, Farewell: Stabilization and the Exit of UN Peacekeeping
The ambitious multidimensional UN peace operations of the early post-Cold War decades are over, supplanted by bare bones, securitized efforts that give short shrift to liberal goals of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.
By Eugene Chen
Published on Feb 3, 2026
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