General Announcements - January 26, 2012
Video: Kai Eide Reflects on Dramatic Two Years as SRSG for Afghanistan
At this IPI event, Kai Eide, a veteran Norwegian diplomat and the former Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan from March 2008-2010, reflected on his 2-year term in Kabul, which he calls "the two most dramatic years since the fall of the Taliban in 2001."
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General Announcements - January 18, 2012
Video: Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the ICC
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, spoke at a lunchtime discussion on the challenges for justice and peace and the role of the ICC.
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General Announcements - January 13, 2012
IPI Initiative: Cops Without Borders
Illicit money flows linked to global crime syndicates are conservatively estimated at US$130 billion annually. As criminal networks expand, they increasingly ignore international borders while law enforcement agencies remain largely confined to their own national boundaries. 
Meeting Notes - December 05, 2011
Seminar Report: Multilateral Strategies for Conflict Prevention
Ten years ago the UN Secretary-General pledged to intensify efforts to move from a culture of reaction to a culture of prevention. In 2005, heads of state and government at the UN World Summit solemnly renewed their commitment “to promote a culture of prevention of armed conflict.”
Panel Discussions - December 15, 2011
Preventive Diplomacy: What Works and What Doesn’t
An international forum titled "Conflict Prevention and Preventive Diplomacy: What Works and What Doesn’t?" was held at IPI on December 15, 2011 and was attended by more than 50 participants from UN permanent missions, multilateral agencies, think tanks, and universities.
Panel Discussions - December 14, 2011
Considering Reform Options for International Environmental Governance
A recent roundtable discussion at IPI titled "Strengthening International Environmental Governance: Exploring System-Wide Responses" considered reform options for international environmental governance (IEG) in the context of the Belgrade Process, the Nairobi-Helsinki Outcome and the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) summit.
Panel Discussions - December 12, 2011
After the Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The International Peace Institute on December 12th held a policy forum focusing on the just-completed balloting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that brought a crowd of 120 people to IPI’s Trygve Lie Center.
Meeting Notes - December 06, 2011
Meeting Note: The OSCE-Mediterranean Partnership and the Arab Uprisings
This meeting note summarizes discussions at an IPI workshop in Vienna, held on October 25, 2011, about how the uprisings and changes in the Arab world affect the partnership between the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and its Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation (MPCs).
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Comment and Analysis
January 23, 2012
A Quiet Diplomat for Challenging Times
Francesco Mancini
Ban Ki-moon was appointed to a second five-year term as Secretary-General of the United Nations in his typical style: quietly. In a time of divisive power plays in the Security
January 22, 2012
Al-Shabaab Fears Political Agenda in Western Aid Says IPI's John Hirsch
Al Jazeera
"The United Nations system is both a humanitarian aid system and political system, and it's seen as very much within a Western orbit, so a great deal of the reluctance
The Global Observatory
Interview with Kai Eide, Former SRSG for Afghanistan
“Peace in Afghanistan cannot be made by the international community,” Amb. Eide said. “It has to be made by the Afghans themselves.”
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