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.

In this event, Dr. Comfort Ero, Crisis Group’s President & CEO, talked 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.

Event begins – 00:05:30
Dr. Comfort Ero’s session begins – 00:29:40