UNU research focuses on the challenges faced by the United Nations and its Member States. Our current research portfolio supports all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 to inspire global action to overcome the world’s biggest challenges.
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Capturing UN Preventive Diplomacy Success: How and Why Does It Work?
The impact the UN can have in conflict settings and the many challenges in linking short-term interventions with longer-term sustainable peace.
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Assessment Framework for UN Preventive Diplomacy: An Approach for UN Mediators and International Policymakers
A clear layout of the methodological challenges in evaluating political interventions in conflict and an impact assessment tool for practitioners.
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Preventing Tomorrow’s Conflicts and Sustaining Peace
Informing UN policy deliberations with a proactive, over-the-horizon approach to prevent and sustain peace.
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Protecting the Legitimacy and Effectiveness of UN Sanctions
Challenges in UN Security Council sanctions, particularly in counter-terrorism.
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Children and Extreme Violence: Cradled by Conflict
Understanding child recruitment by armed groups, including terrorist organizations, and identifying obstacles to releasing children from such groups.
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Group Cohesion and Peace Processes
Internal cohesion of non-State armed groups during peace processes.
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Diplomacy and Good Offices in the Prevention of Conflict
A joint flagship study between the UN the World Bank on the prevention of violent conflict.
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Preventing Violent Urban Conflict
A joint flagship study on Preventing Violent Conflict between the UN and the World Bank.
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UN Sanctions and the Prevention of Conflict
The UN and the World Bank are undertaking a joint flagship study on Preventing Violent Conflict.
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25 Keys to Unlock the Financial Chains of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Human trafficking poses severe financial risks, prompting a UN University workshop to recommend actions for disrupting financial ties.