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• 1 June 2023

  Security Council Elections 2023

  Research Report

  The 77th session of the UN General Assembly is scheduled to hold elections on 6 June for five non-permanent seats of the Security Council for the 2024-2025 term.

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• 2 May 2023

  Security Council Working Methods in Hard Times

  Research Report

  Security Council Report’s report of 2 May, Security Council Working Methods in Hard Times, analyses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis on the Council’s working methods and on its transparency, effectiveness, and accountability. These events affected many aspects of life in the Council: how it meets, how it votes, whom it invites to participate in its meetings, and whom it hears from. They presented elected Council members with challenges but also opportunities to make a difference in the work of the Council. The report also covers the work of key groupings that helped shape the Council’s working methods during this period, including the Security Council’s Informal Working Group on Documentation and Other Procedural Questions (IWG) and the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency Group (ACT).  

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• 26 April 2023

  The Financing of AU Peace Support Operations: Prospects for Progress in the Security Council?

  Research Report

  The financing of AU-led peace support operations (AUPSOs) has been an issue in the relationship between the UN and the AU in general, and between the Security Council and the AU Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) in particular, since 2007. Despite advances in recent years, the AU’s Achilles heel remains the lack of adequate resources to support and sustain these operations.    

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• 30 December 2022

  The UN Security Council and Climate Change: Tracking the Agenda after the 2021 Veto

  Research Report

  This report seeks to address how the Council has engaged with the climate change, peace and security dossier following the December 2021 veto of a draft resolution on this issue.

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• 30 December 2022

  Golden Threads and Persisting Challenges: The Security Council Women, Peace and Security Presidencies Initiative

  Research Report

  Just over a year ago, Ireland, Kenya and Mexico formed a “Presidency Trio for Women, Peace and Security” (WPS), pledging to make WPS “a top priority” of their respective presidencies in September, October and November 2021. During the press conference on the Council’s programme of work for September 2021, Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason (Ireland) described the initiative as “a golden thread” that would run through the Irish, Kenyan and Mexican presidencies.

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• 7 November 2022

  Transitional Justice: What Role for the UN Security Council?

  Research Report

  This report aims to contribute to a better understanding of how the Security Council has positioned itself on transitional justice issues

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