Programme Areas
The Peace and Governance Programme contributes to the promotion of sustainable peace and good governance. It organizes and supports research that produces policy-oriented recommendations for current problems, and identifies longer-term trends and patterns in international politics that hold implications for peace, security and governance. It is also fully engaged in UNU's teaching activities.
Civil and ethnic conflicts, inter-state wars, terrorism, poverty, the threat of weapons of mass destruction, the scourge of small arms, the negative impacts of economic globalization, human rights abuses, and the problems experienced by transitional and democratizing societies portray a challenging list of the problems that confront us today.
These issues demand a forward-looking, innovative approach, and one that conceptualizes peace and security in the broadest sense. It is in this spirit that the Peace and Governance Programme formulates and directs its projects at the UNU in collaboration with scholars, institutions and practitioners world-wide.
Research Areas
P&G projects take place in four areas:
I. International Order and Justice
- 2030 Global Prospects
- The Role of Emotions in International Relations
- Legality and Legitimacy in International Order
- World Religions and Norms of War (
Research Brief) - International Criminal Accountability and Children's Rights (Policy Brief)
- Atrocities and International Accountability
- The End of Westphalia? Re-envisioning Sovereignty
Recently Completed Projects:
II. Conflict and Security
- Partnerships for Research and Capacity Building: Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in Conflicted Societies
- Protracted Refugee Situations (Policy Brief)
- Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in South and Southeast Asia
Recently Completed Projects:
- Diasporas in International Conflict
- Reconstituting Korean Security
- Unintended Consequence of Peacekeeping
- Arms Control after Iraq
- The Chemical Weapons Convention (Policy Brief)
- Challenges to Peacebuilding (Policy Brief)
- Researching Conflict in Africa
III. Human Rights and Ethics
- The Responsibility to Protect National Minorities
- Principled Engagement: Promoting Human Rights by Engaging Abusive Regimes
- Re-casting the Ethics of War
- The UN Human Rights Commission Special Procedures
- The Human Rights Regime in the Americas (Policy Brief)
- Improving Women's Health in India
- Gender Perspectives on Small Arms and Light Weapons
Recently Completed Projects:
IV. Policy and Institutional Frameworks
- The United Nations, World Trade Organization, and Challenges of Human Security
- Global Governance of HIV/AIDS
- Beyond Westphalianism: The Emergence of Public-Private Partnerships in the Multilateral Relations of States
- Global Governance and Non-State Actors: Transnational Corporations, Environmental Justice and Human Rights in Developing Countries
- Political Parties in Divided Societies
- The Rule of Law and Good Business Practice in Zones of Conflict
Recently Completed Projects:
- Regulation of the Private Security Sector in Africa
- Regionalization of Northeast Asia
- Regulating Globalization
- International Commissions and the Power of Ideas
- Reforming from the Top: A Leader's 20 Summit (Policy Brief)
- Making States Work
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