NEWS: An Elephant Playing Second Fiddle? : The Role of the UN in 21st Century Peace Mediation
The Ottawa Dialogue is pleased to share that our Research Fellow, Jenna Sapiano, has published a chapter titled “An Elephant Playing Second Fiddle? : The Role of the UN in 21st Century Peace Mediation“. In this piece, she examines the United Nations’ legitimacy and effectiveness as a mediator, analyzing both its processes and the outcomes of its mediation efforts.
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This chapter appears in the Research Handbook on Global Governance (2025), edited by Aoife O’Donoghue, Ruth Houghton and Cher Weixia Chen. The volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of global governance, including its successes and failures. It challenges the promise that global institutions and frameworks offer solutions to major world challenges such as climate change, pandemics, war, democracy, human rights and inequalities.
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