Policy Papers - March 01, 2011

Essays on Responsibility to Protect and Security Council Role

The International Peace Institute (IPI) and the Diplomatic Academy Vienna have put together the first comprehensive analysis of the role of the UN Security Council in the ongoing process of implementing the responsibility to protect (RtoP).  

Policy Papers - November 17, 2010

IPI Policy Paper: What Leads to Genocide?

Genocides do not break out unannounced; they are preceded and prepared by identity conflicts that can escalate into mass killing.  

Policy Papers - August 21, 2009

A Choice for Peace? The Story of Forty-One Days of Mediation in Kenya

The postelection violence that erupted in Kenya in December 2007 resulted in the deaths of over one thousand people and left three hundred thousand people displaced.  

Meeting Notes - June 22, 2009

The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) and Genocide Prevention in Africa

This report outlines the outcomes from an expert roundtable convened by IPI, the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and the InterAfrica Group, which took place in Addis Ababa in October, 2008.  

Policy Papers - April 08, 2009

Conflict Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect: IPI Blue Paper no. 7

This Blue Paper addresses both conflict prevention and the related but distinct concept of the responsibility to protect (RtoP).  

Meeting Notes - June 13, 2008

Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities and the Responsibility to Protect

The report stems from a two-day roundtable in Stellenbosch, South Africa, jointly convened by IPI, the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), and the Office of the UN Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide (SAPG).  

Meeting Notes - May 31, 2004

Ten Years after Genocide in Rwanda: Building Consensus for the Responsibility to Protect

On the morning of March 26, 2004, members of the UN community shared a somber minute of silence to honor the over 800,000 victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.  

Meeting Notes - July 13, 2002

Discussions at the Release of the Responsibility to Protect

A synopsis of the panel discussions at the February 15, 2002, release of the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), entitled The Responsibility to Protect.