Conferences - Saturday, July 02, 2011
Turkey, IPI Hold Security Council Retreat in Istanbul
For the second consecutive year, IPI collaborated with the Government of the Republic of Turkey in holding an informal retreat of the United Nations Security Council in Istanbul on July 2-3, 2011.
The retreat gathered the members of the Security Council as well as several non-Council members at ambassadorial level, senior staff of the UN Secretariat, and independent experts with the aim of discussing ways to strengthen preventive diplomacy and mediation.
The discussions at the retreat drew on the lessons learned from recent crises and conflicts, particularly in Sudan, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, Libya, and Syria. In an informal and off-the-record setting, the conversations sought to build on and enrich the ongoing debate on realizing the full potential of preventive diplomacy and mediation as cost-effective options for dealing with crises.
Different sessions were dedicated to taking stock of the Security Council’s experience with preventive diplomacy and mediation, tools and capacities available for early consensual engagement across the United Nations system, the role of non-United Nations actors, and building preventive capacities.
A meeting note on the retreat is forthcoming from IPI.
Click here to read the IPI "Issue Brief: Preventive Diplomacy and Mediation," based on a concept note prepared by Arthur Boutellis, Edward C. Luck, and Christoph Mikulaschek for the Istanbul retreat.
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Recent Events
May 10, 2012
Arbour: What the Rule of Law Means
“In my understanding of the rule of law, fundamentally, what the rule of law means is that it embraces the principle of equality before the law,” Louise Arbour, president of the International Crisis Group (ICG), told an IPI audience on May 10, 2012. Ms. Arbour outlined that this means that no one is above the law and everyone has both equal protection and equal benefit of the law. 
May 03, 2012
Shachtman: Cyber Threats Akin to South Bronx, Not Pearl Harbor
“There’s not a danger of a cyber Pearl Harbor… it’s more like the South Bronx circa 1999, where there’s a danger that it becomes such a tough neighborhood that no one wants to set up shop there and people move out,” Noah Shachtman, editor of the Danger Room blog at Wired magazine and non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, told an IPI audience at a panel on cyber security on May 3, 2011.
April 27, 2012
Preventing Conflicts in Africa: The Role of Early Warning and Response Systems
An April 27th roundtable discussion at IPI titled “Preventing Conflicts in Africa: The Role of Early Warning and Response Systems” examined the progress, prospects and challenges of regional and international early warning and response mechanisms to monitor, anticipate, and mitigate potential conflict situations in Africa.