Using UN Sanctions as a Peacebuilding Tool: Ideas for Enhancing the Sanctions Design Process

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1 Security Council resolution 2219, (S/Res/2219 (2015)), dated 28 April 2015, preambular paragraph 5.

2 Letter from the Permanent Representative of Australia to the UN addressed to the Secretary-General dated 5 November 2014, S/2014/793, p. 2.

3 See http://www.un.org/en/peacebuilding/pbso/faq.shtml#q1, accessed 15 October 2015.

4 The term sanctions regime refers to the sanctions measures in force at a given time for a given country, region or situation. These measures are usually drawn from several different UN Security Council resolutions.

5 The main government-sponsored initiatives were the 1998/99 Interlaken, the 1999/2000 Bonn-Berlin and the 2002 Stockholm processes, as well as the 2014 High Level Review of UN sanctions. The Security Council created an Informal Working Group on General Issues of Sanctions in 2000, which issued a report in 2006 (Report of the Informal Working Group of the Security Council on General Issues of Sanctions dated 22 December 2006, S/2006/997).

6 Wallensteen et al. (2003, 21); Eriksson (2011, 125–126).

7 Bierstecker et al. (2013, 7).

8 See the Letter from the President of the Security Council dated 16 July 2014, S/2014/504, paragraph 2; and, in response, the Secretary-General's report dated 29 September 2014 outlining the findings of the assessment mission concerning the Liberia sanctions regime, S/2014/707).

9 For examples of such interactions, see Security Council resolution 2160 dated 17 June 2014, preambular paragraph 14; and the Annual Report of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1518 (2003), S/2011/806, paragraph 8.

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Melanie Ramjoué

MELANIE RAMJOUÉ works for the Security Council Affairs Division of the UN Department of Political Affairs. She previously worked for the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She obtained graduate degrees in law from Columbia Law School and the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. The views expressed are the author’s alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the UN.