Dr Richard Lappin holds a PhD from the University of Leuven on post-conflict democracy assistance, as well as an MSt in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford. He has worked on human rights and democracy assistance programmes throughout the world.
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The Missing Peace? Global-Regional Partnerships in Africa
UN peace operations have reached unprecedented levels of cost, complexity and risk ā and its operational focus is clear. Nine of the 16 current UN peacekeeping missions are in Africa, almost 50 per cent of its 125,000 personnel come ...
Ebola and Understanding Health Crises as Threats to International Security
On 14 January 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the two-year Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The epidemic claimed more than 11,300 lives and infected over 28,500 people, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and ...
Including Water Security on the UN Security Council Agenda
Water is indispensable to human survival and economic production. The management of water access has thus become a focal point of tensions between and within states. With forecasts of increasing water scarcity, particularly within ...
