A Shifting Landscape in Global Conflict Prevention and Mediation

The post–Cold War order that once supported multilateral diplomacy has eroded over the past few years. Global conflicts are becoming more fragmented, multi-layered, and transnational. Comprehensive peace agreements are rarer and what used to be tried and tested peace tools and international mechanisms less effective.

The institutions that once underpinned global conflict resolution are struggling — especially the United Nations. And while the United States diplomacy under president Donald Trump has injected some new energy into peacemaking, it has mostly yielded quick fixes, leaving core disputes unresolved. These changes have resulted in the emergence of new actors, many of them non-western, willing to play greater roles as peacemakers.

Please join us for this fireside chat in which Dr. Comfort Ero, Crisis Group’s President & CEO, will talk about this moment of transition in conflict prevention and mediation across the globe, a point where the old system of multilateral peacemaking is fading, but a new one is not yet fully formed.

Moderator:

Ana María Salazar | Award-winning journalist, expert on security and international relations.

The conversation will be held in English and will be live-streamed on YouTube.