Charlie Hunt

Professor of International Relations @RMIT University | Senior Fellow @UNUCPR

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

Have recent ‘turns’ in peacebuilding scholarship 🔄🕊️ influenced practice or are they primarily clever pirouettes in the ivory tower🩰🧑‍🎓🧑‍🏫?

Some thoughts from me in my new #OpenAccess🔓 @JISBjournal article👇

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https://t.co/m5hNX2JcPJ

[Challenges Forum @ChallengesForum]

📍Nov 6, we together with @ipinst & partners gathered leaders, experts & UN officials for a discussion on “UN Police and the Future of Peace Operations”.Exploring how @UNPOL protects civilians,engages communities, builds capacity & adapts to evolving conflicts & lighter missions.

[ASPI @ASPI_org]

'As UN peacekeeping faces an uncertain future, Australia can step up to support this multilateral tool and shape the next phase of UN peace operations,' write @CharlieKwame and @LJSharland. https://t.co/YgZPlHeM40

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

What more can/should the returned Albanese government do to step up and support #ConflictPrevention, #ConflictManagement, #Peacebuilding and #Multilateralism through 🇺🇳 @UNPeacekeeping?

Thoughts from @LJSharland and I in the @ASPI_org #Strategist 👇

[ASPI @ASPI_org]

With more investment, Australia can help secure UN peacekeeping’s future | @CharlieKwame and @LJSharland | https://t.co/UiD12odyzk

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

Full access to publications here:

https://t.co/KcnuL7ws3l

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

Happy to see two co-authored papers📄 published today as part of Global Alliance for Peace Operations collections:

1⃣ Protection of Civilians in Peace Operations
2⃣ Enhancing the Role of UN police in Peacekeeping Operations

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

Across the papers, we urge governments to step up their political and financial support for this unique conflict management tool. They offer concrete recommendations for adapting peace operations to new realities and pressing political, financial and operational challenges.

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

Grateful to @AustCivMil for invitation to speak at their 'Protection of Civilians' course in Canberra the past two days.

Terrific group of participants and speakers on most timely of topics with violent conflict, civilian targeting, and forced displacement are all on the rise📈

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

#POLI1099 on geopolitical power and influence

[Global Peace Index @GlobPeaceIndex]

🌐The world is more interconnected than ever: 34 countries now wield significant influence over five or more nations – nearly triple the number at the Cold War's end.
Full Report ➡️https://t.co/Pf8j0ppcGs

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

#POLI1099 on #GlobalGovernance of #Development in turbulent times | @nicolegoldin (@UNUCPR)

https://t.co/mPBaN1EZaz

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

#POLI1099 on future of ‘freedom’ cities as actors beyond nation states #GlobalGovernance https://t.co/C0U48WPEYo

[UN Humanitarian Air Service @WFP_UNHAS]

Grateful to all our partners who contributed to the #UNHAS Centralized Funding Mechanism!

In Q1 2025, 10 operations benefited from it, allowing aid workers to access remote locations & making a positive impact on communities🙏

Together, we are stronger! 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇱🇳🇴🇸🇪

[EU in South Sudan @EUinSouthSudan]

Diplomatic missions in #SouthSudan have offered to facilitate urgent direct dialogue between President Kiir and his first deputy, Dr Riek Machar, over rising tensions in the country. Read more in the joint statement below. #SSOX

[Harmonie Toros @HarmonieToros]

Great debate on the challenges (and joys!) of teaching conflict resolution today and presenting the latest edition of Contemporary Conflict Resolution (https://t.co/r0rzEHSo2G) @politybooks ; thank you @CharlieKwame @KCLSophie @davidmanus and @julia50229 for the great panel!

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

#POLI1099 on credit rating agencies as influential (and not unproblematic) actors in #GlobalGovernance https://t.co/sG0P0MOzWG

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

#POLI1099 on UN and UN Security Council reform prospects. ⚠️ BEWARE: DOGE-UN ⚠️

[Crisis Group @CrisisGroup]

NEW OP-ED | The UN Between Decline and Renewal

Despite the gloom in New York, member state coalitions have responded to Security Council deadlock and other UN dysfunction with diplomatic innovations, writes @RichardGowan1.

https://t.co/8gGGvYsafx

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

Teaching peace and conflict studies at the end of the world....& other hyperbolic titles.
Thoroughly enjoyed discussing new edition of Contemporary Conflict Resolution & how we teach in troubling times without extinguishing (radical) hope.
#ISA2025 #PeaceStudies
@HarmonieToros

[Asia-Pacific 4D @AsiaPacific4D]

Tune in next Friday 28 Feb, 1-2pm AEDT, to hear from Australia's Human Rights Commissioner @lorrainejfinlay @AusHumanRights, @ICRC's @DETuckICRC, @LexbridgeIntLaw's Dr Sarah McCosker and @ICVAnetwork's Keya Saha-Chaudhury.

🎫Register via Zoom at https://t.co/sVdzn9Y99I.

[Amani Africa @africa_amani]

📢Breaking: Our signature annual publication that accompanies the submission by the #PSC of its Report on its Activities and the State of #Peace and #Security in Africa to the AU Assembly warns a new era of insecurity and instability is underway in #Africa with rise in the number & complexity of conflicts and emerging trends of threats of state collapse, the redrawing of maps of the continent & breakdown of regional orders. It reveals that these challenges & changes and loss of diplomatic leadership have brought the $AU to a crossroad. Dive deep into the details to find out why the AU needs to break from a business-as-usual approach and urgently change course. 👉 https://t.co/4tgeKADn9Z

[Charlie Hunt @CharlieKwame]

Terrific, albeit depressing, overview by @PhoebsG86 & @ipinst team of progress and prospects for the #WPS agenda 25 years since adoption of ground-breaking #UNSCR1325

[Global Observatory @ipinstGO]

🚨NEW on the Global Observatory: The Highs and Lows of Women, Peace and Security in 2024, and Looking Ahead to 2025, by Olivia Parsons, @PhoebsG86 and @evyncp @ipinst #WomenPeaceSecurity

Read the full article here ⤵
https://t.co/t6EHm2iTXG