Oct 29, 2008
In partnership with the United Nations Development Programme, the International Peace Institute recently hosted a lunchtime policy discussion on postconflict economic recovery, based on the recently released UNDP report entitled “Post-Conflict Economic Recovery: Enabling Local Ingenuity.”
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On September 25, 2008, a select group of foreign ministers and distinguished experts gathered in IPI’s Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security, and Development to discuss “the State of Freedom of Expression: Access to Information as a Driver of Social Development.”
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On the morning of Monday, September 22, 2008, IPI hosted a breakfast Policy Forum on Crime as an Impediment to Security and Development in Africa. The meeting, chaired by IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen and UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa, considered the ways in which local and transnational crime in Africa represents both a cause and a consequence of violence, corruption, and poor governance, and the strategies that international institutions can adopt to arrest this cycle. The meeting was an official Side Event to the UN General Assembly’s High Level Meeting on Africa’s Development Needs.
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