Cedric de Coning

@cdeconing.bsky.social

Research Prof @NUPInytt @ACCORD_online @EffectivePOps @T4PAfrica #Complexity #AdaptivePeace #PeaceOperations #Peacebuilding #ClimatePeaceSecurity #AfricaNordic 🇳🇴🇿🇦

Key takeaways from the peace vs security panel at the Basel Peace Forum organised by #Swisspeace ➡️ Peace is the goal. Security is one of the instruments to achieve peace ➡️ Security is necessary but is not sufficient to sustain peace ➡️ Both negative & positive peace are needed to sustain peace

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Yesterday the Norwegian, Nordic & Baltic Climate Peace and Security community gathered at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) for the Oslo Climate Peace and Security Forum. At the Forum a new Norwegian Climate Peace and Security Research Policy and Practice Network was launched.

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📰 In which @cdeconing.bsky.social and I are quoted on issues at stake in discussions on implementation of Security Council resolution 2719 on financing AU peace support ops thru UN assessed contributions, including the ongoing push to apply it to #Somalia. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

African-led peacekeeping fills a UN-sized hole

As the UN shifts to more of a support role, regional powers have launched a series of leaner, cheaper stabilisation and intervention missions.

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🕊️ Looking forward to this discussion, which will be an opportunity to reflect on ideas including the DPO-commissioned study on future models of #peacekeeping and my own paper on a new vision for #peaceoperations. #CAF24Berlin 1️⃣ peacekeeping.un.org/en/study-on-... 2️⃣ cic.nyu.edu/resources/a-...

Challenges Forum@challengesforum.bsky.social · 2y ago

☑️Operationalising Adaptable & Effective #PeaceOperations 🗣️1 of 3 areas we'll explore deeper at #CAF24Berlin 3-4 Dec. 🔎Looking at the structural & operational barriers. 📰Read new interesting background paper here! 👉 bit.ly/3Z5RmU5 🖊️by Eugene Chen @telegramwriter.bsky.social

The African Union is facilitating the development of a Common African Position on #CllimateChange, Peace and Security. Read more about the challenges, priorities and principles identified thus far in the process in this piece by Alhaji Sarjoh Bah 👇🏼 www.accord.org.za/analysis/why...

Why Climate Change, Peace and Security is a priority for the African Union – ACCORD

The African Union’s Efforts to Address Climate Change, Peace, and Security

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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

Very interesting discussion last night in Berlin on South Africa’s role in co-shaping a new global order. South Africa’s position is officially non-aligned, but in reality 🇿🇦 is trying to benefit from good relations with both #BRICS and Western countries #G20SouthAfrica

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Cedric de Coning@cdeconing.bsky.social · 2y ago

What is #SouthAfrica’s role in shaping a new global order? #AU #G20 #BRICS… Excited to contribute to this discussion organised by the German-Africa Foundation & German-South African Forum on 27 August at Africa House in Berlin 👇🏼

I really enjoyed this conversation-great insights from NUPI on climate & social cohesion and climate geopolitics.

Cedric de Coning@cdeconing.bsky.social · 2y ago

Listen to this podcast with @erinsikorsky.bsky.social‬ and the #NUPI Climate, Peace and Security team. We had fun reflecting on the relationship between climate change, peace and security ranging from the Arctic to Africa, with forays into the Security Council & NATO 👉🏼 www.nupi.no/en/news/clim...

Achieving a just AND peaceful transition means avoiding the backdraft potential, the conflict-generating potential, of needed steps to advance climate adaptation & mitigation. Essential transformative action without making easily anticipated missteps www.newsecuritybeat.org/2022/08/crea...

Creating an Environment of Peace Means Avoiding Backdraft

A new contribution in a continuing series examining “backdraft” — the unintended consequences of climate change responses — and how its effects might be anticipated and minimized to [...]

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