At our upcoming Lunch Briefing, Lucile Maertens and Sara Hellmüller will discuss what #Switzerland has achieved during its one-month presidency of UN Security Council & the challenges of this specific role. 📅5th November, 12:30 - Maison de la paix and online 👉ow.ly/pByi50TVips

Last week CCDP Head of Research, Eliza Urwin presented on the Everyday Peace Indicators Indicators (epi) project, its methodology and current dataset of over 40,000 global indicators at ETH Zurich’s mediation cluster seminar series alongside EPI coordinator Dr Julianne Funk.

There is simply no alternative to UNRWA. The ban of UNRWA will not make #Israel safer, it will only deepen the suffering of the people of #Gaza and increase the risk of disease outbreaks and other health issues.

Every time Eminem speaks, I feel like he's rapping 😄

Join us for our next #GlobalGovernance Talk with Lucile Maertens, Co-Director of the Gvagrad_GGC on #InternationalOrganizations in Times of Crisis: Agenda-keeping in Global Governance With James Hollway as moderator, Astrid Pantin-Skjold as discussant. 👉ow.ly/wo9I50TLpJv

How much do we *really* know about the impacts of United Nations🕊️#peace missions❔on the possibility of peace❔ On civilian deaths❔ Take the quiz❗️peacemissions.info/additional/quiz ➡️Learn more: 🇨🇭 @UNOG CSS at ETH Zurich CCDP exhibition, Palais des Nations, Bldg E, this week only.

Happy 🔟th birthday to UN University Centre for Policy Research, where I spent a happy year as a fellow in 2018-19 before moving to Crisis Group. (Hey, I'm in the video!)

Returning to Gaza now, I see destruction that defies belief, from Rafah, via Khan Yunis, to Gaza City. This is destruction of an entire society of more than 2 million people, in a densely populated, small, confined territory. This is in no way “self-defence.”

Following the🇨🇭#UNSC Presidency, we shed light on civil society briefers’ work. "We need a ceasefire. Not only in Syria but in the whole region. And more diplomacy." Abir Haj Ibrahim, Co-Founder, Mobaderoon, #Syria, shares her hopes & what she expects from the Security Council ⬇️

Lebanon is at breaking point with 1 million new war displaced, on top of 1.5 million refugees. What I witness is that the warfare is indiscriminate. Again: it is the innocent children & families that are paying the heaviest price for the senseless Israel-Hezbollah war. 1/3

Was hat die Schweiz im UNO-Sicherheitsrat angesichts des stark polarisierten internationalen Umfelds erreicht? Eine Analyse von Sara Hellmüller von der CSS at ETH Zurich und Lucile Maertens vom Geneva Graduate Institute swissinfo.ch/ger/aussenpoli…

Job alert: I am looking for 2 collaborators for my new consolidator project "Decades of Peace" at the University of Zurich IPZ - Political Science UZH funded by Swiss National Science Foundation. Please help me find them. PhD position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:e32a7b… Postdoc position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:94e1a4…

Nell'ottobre 2024 la Svizzera ha ricoperto per la seconda volta il ruolo di presidente del Consiglio di sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite. Quali risultati ha potuto raggiungere? buff.ly/48NGL4K Lucile Maertens Sara Hellmüller Geneva Graduate Institute

At a lunch briefing on 5th November, Prof. Lucile Maertens & Dr Sara Hellmüller reflected on what #Switzerland has achieved during its during its two-year mandate, especially while acting as the President of the UN Security Council, In October 2024. 👉ow.ly/qfRV50U9Ozf

Frieden fördern🕊️, Zivilbevölkerung schützen, Klimasicherheit & Effizienz stärken: Inwiefern konnte die Schweiz während ihres Einsitzes im UNO-Sicherheitsrat diese Ziele voranbringen? Diese Frage haben wir heute am Anlass mit Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Aussenpolitik beleuchtet. #UNSC

🆕Heute haben wir das #Bulletin2024 zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik gemeinsam mit den AutorInnen veröffentlicht! Es liefert Impulse für die Sicherheitspolitik der Schweiz im Kontext der Zeitenwende. Wir freuen uns über Rückmeldungen! #CSSBulletin

2024 is one of the deadliest years on record for humanitarian workers. #UNSC:🇨🇭urgently called States to implement Resolution 2730 on the protection of humanitarian &🇺🇳personnel. #IHL is crystal clear: humanitarian and United Nations personnel must be protected.

Long time in the making, this piece found a home in CSP Journal. Looking forward to seeing the whole issue come out in the next months!

📋CSP blog update 🔸 In a new author post Sara Hellmüller & بلال سلايمة - Bilal present the findings of their work on the effects of geopolitical competition on actors involved in peace processes Read the post here: contemporarysecuritypolicy.org

Check our latest w/ Sara Hellmüller on "Transactionalism in Peacemaking" We analyze how the growing conflation of warmaking and peacemaking is transforming peace processes into a "political marketplace," where transactionalism increasingly dominates as the modus operandi. 👇🏻