As the world’s technological revolution proceeds, the United Nations can benefit immensely from a plethora of technologies to assist its peace operations. Fortunately, significant progress is being made. The UN has adopted a strategy for technology and peacekeeping and is showing the will and the means to implement it. New concepts, such as “technology-contributing countries” and “participatory peacekeeping” through new information technology, can improve peace operations. New technologies can also help UN field workers “live, move, and work” more effectively and safely, creating the possibility of the “digital peacekeeper.”
This report provides an overview of technological capabilities and how they are being used, explores progress to date and key challenges, and offers a set of practical recommendations. These recommendations include several general principles, such as to:
Beyond these general principles, it proposes ideas for new activities and processes:
This paper is part of the Providing for Peacekeeping series.
You can read here the article on the attempt to change the Greek electoral law, which was written by Professor George Pagoulatos. The commentary was published on 10 July 2016 in the Sunday edition of Kathimerini and is available in Greek.
Associate Professor at the University of Athens and Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos explained on EU Observer how the third bailout is implemented by the Greek government. The article was published on 5 July 2016 and is available here.
The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and the European Policy Centre (EPC) organised as Policy Dialogue on ‘Union, disunion or time for a paradigm shift?, on Wednesday 13 July 2016 in Brussels. The event was inspired by discussions held during the 13th European Seminar involving participants from all over Europe, organised by ELIAMEP, in cooperation with the EPC on 30 June-3 July 2016.
Speakers were: Ms Elizabeth Collett (Founding Director, Migration Policy Institute Europe; Senior Advisor to MPI’s Transatlantic Council on Migration, Brussels), Dr Ruby Gropas (Team Leader, Social Affairs, European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission), Professor George Pagoulatos (Athens University of Economics and Business; Member of the Board of Directors, ELIAMEP) and Mr Janis A. Emmanouilidis (Director of Studies, European Policy Centre). Dr Giovanni Grevi (Senior Fellow, European Policy Centre) will moderate the discussion.