Victor Angelo

  10 October 2025 | Worldwide | Secretary-General Contingency Plan Letter to Staff Members Dear Colleagues,   I am writing to update you on ...

Peacekeeping missions and diamonds Victor Ângelo   This week, for not very noble reasons, the United Nations peace operations were in ...

  In today’s Diário de Notícias (Lisbon) Notes on Mali Victor Angelo     Mali is a fascinating country, diverse in its landscapes ...

75 years ago, visionary leaders have signed the UN Charter and initiated what they thought would be a world without major wars. Their dre...

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

There are several areas of the UN´s work that call for reform. Today, I would mention the Protection of Civilians in relation with the man...

It is with deep sadness that we have learned about the loss of another five peacekeepers deployed in Mali with the UN mission. They were k...

Many political and military leaders are very much influenced by their experiences in the stabilisation missions as implemented in Afghanis...

The UN Secretary-General has just forced his Special Representative in the Central African Republic (CAR) to resign. The reason is directl...

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

The questions and the debate that followed my presentation on UN peace operations – yesterday´s post was about the public address I delive...

Yesterday I delivered a public talk on the reform on the UN peace operations. It was organised by GRIP (Group for Research and Information...