Panel: Mounting challenges for international peacekeeping missions

单集文稿 ...

• 00:00

  Daily news and analysis, we keep you informed and inspired.

• 00:05

  This is World Today.

• 00:10

  Hello and welcome to the panel discussion of World Today.

• 00:14

  I'm Ding Heng in Beijing.

• 00:17

  International peacekeeping missions are in peril due to global geopolitical deadlock, funding issues,

• 00:24

  and declining personnel numbers, according to a recent report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

• 00:34

  The analysis has found just under 79,000 personnel were deployed in international peacekeeping

• 00:41

  missions at the end of 2025, its lowest level in 25 years,

• 00:47

  and 40% lower than in 2016. The study says missions managed by the United Nations have been affected most seriously.

• 00:59

  What could be the consequences of a significant weakening of multilateral conflict management?

• 01:06

  Can this trend be reversed?

• 01:08

  These questions and much more in this edition of the program.

• 01:13

  To listen to this episode again or to catch up on previous episodes,

• 01:17

  you can download our podcast by searching World Today.

• 01:23

  So joining us now on the line are Dr. Wen Jing,

• 01:27

  Research Fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University.

• 01:34

  Professor Kevin Nauen, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations

• 01:40

  at Pannasastra University of Cambodia and a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Vision Institute.

• 01:48

  Joseph Siracusa, Professor of Global Futures with Curtin University in Australia.

• 01:54

  So thank you very much for joining us, Joseph, Kevin, and Dr. Wen Jing.

• 全部文稿