By Josh Jorgensen The Security Council renewed the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) on March 15, 2023. The new mandate emphasizes the Mission’s responsibility to physically protect civilians from violence, but does not substantively change its other priorities or responsibilities. With the mandate’s new Protection of Civilians (POC) language and…
On March 12, the UN Security Council unanimously approved resolution 2567, which renewed the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). The renewal comes on the heels of a year in which subnational violence with links to national political rivalries increased, parties to the revitalized peace agreement failed to implement many of…
By Lauren Spink and Daniel Levine-Spound Between November and December of 2020, CIVIC carried out interviews with civilians and civil society leaders living in Bor, Juba, and Wau in South Sudan. Up until recently, the UNMISS bases in each of these locations hosted a Protection of Civilians (PoC) site. The sites were created in…
For an English transcript of the French remarks made by Ms. Desanges Kabuo in the video above please click here. To mark the twentieth anniversary of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, the United Nations Department of Peace Operations, and…
Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) conducts research and advocacy on the protection of civilians through UN peacekeeping operations. Although CIVIC has long included gender as a cross-cutting issue in our work, over the last year, we have increased our focus on how UN peacekeeping missions are integrating gender in their efforts to protect civilians.…
October 31, 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security. This resolution was the first of its kind to acknowledge that women are uniquely impacted by armed conflict and play an important role in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. In recognition of the anniversary, CIVIC is posting…
South Sudan’s revitalized peace process (R-ARCSS) has been largely elite-focused and has yet to yield real dividends for South Sudanese civilians. In this context, the United Nations peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is implementing a new program of work that ties together national support to the peace process in the country with subnational engagement on protection and peacebuilding.
The following video is one piece in a collection on our VOICES blog focused on the gendered experience in conflict and how gender differences should factor into the protection of civilians. In many of the countries where peacekeeping operations are deployed, gender-based violence (GBV) and conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) are taking place at significant levels…