Victor Angelo

The United Nations is always required to be politically smart. That’s the way I saw it, when performing the responsibilities that had bee...

GENEVA CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY Notes for my seminar of 02 June 2015 Victor Angelo   Reinventing Peace Operations? (Refl...

Pope Francis ‘gesture towards the Palestinian people and its President Mahmoud Abbas should be deeply appreciated. The Palestinian crisis ...

The UN Security Council has finally “unanimously” adopted another Resolution. On 28 April. Unfortunately, it is not on Ukraine, not even o...

Thoughts on Peacekeeping within an African background Victor Ângelo 1.        Introduction On 10 April 2014 the UN Security ...

The same day I had a discussion about the frustratingly slow and very incomplete deployment of the UN peacekeeping operation in Mali (MINUS...

I had a long discussion today about the current impact of the UN missions on peace and security. It all started with a silent crisis, Guin...

I have been asked to produce off-the-cuff a list of key peace building concerns. This is what a put together: 1.   Consolidating peace...

It is clear that the crisis in South Sudan can only be resolved through political negotiations between the President´s camp and Riek Macha...

In Mozambique, the security and political environment have deteriorated fast during the last four of so weeks. The political stress be...

  It is time to discuss the new trends in the international community´s response to major peace and security challenges. As globalisation ...

On the eve of this year’s G8 meeting, Syria remains the key issue. It is also a complex and divisive matter, not just because of the diffe...

When it comes to the Syrian crisis, it is sad to note that the UN has lost the initiative. Even statements by top level UN officials about...

Albert Gerard "Bert" Koenders has been the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) in Cote d’Ivoire since Aug...

I was asked by the media a number of questions about the recent developments in the Central African Republic (CAR). I have advised them...

François Bozizé, who has been the President of the Central African Republic (CAR) for the last ten years, has now fled out of the country...

Today’s conflicts are complex and asymmetric, thus no crisis can be resolved through a linear approach, with a single silver bullet. Comp...

Copyright V.Ângelo Peace and love are back in Sierra Leone, West Africa. And the fashion houses, like this one in Makeni, the headquarters t...