Partners

Issues of peace, security, and conflict, especially in the contemporary world, can only be addressed effectively by harnessing the skills, insights, and resources of a variety of actors.

International Peace Institute, IPI ( formerly International Peace Academy ) is fortunate to have a long-standing track record of successful engagement with constituents and partners. IPI maintains a wide international network of informal partners from academia, NGOs, governments, and international organizations with the goal of facilitating a vital exchange of knowledge, experience, and information among those different sectors.

While our most immediate audience is the UN system and senior Member State representatives in New York, IPI maintains a close working relationship with a network of think tanks in North America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific, collaborating with them repeatedly on specific projects. Most of these partnerships are not institutionalized but rather involve IPI’s interacting closely with individuals in these organizations. Knowledge transfer frequently works both ways, often with IPI functioning principally as a ‘bridge’ between different communities of expertise and experience. With many academic institutions, one of IPI’s main roles is to help ‘translate’ scholarly analysis into policy-relevant inputs and to help channel analysis and advice into the policymaking process at the UN and other inter-governmental organizations.

Below is a list of collaborating institutions.

United Nations

United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UNDPKO)
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
United Nations Department of Political Affairs (DPA)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Executive Office of the Secretary-General (EOSG)
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United Nations University (UNU)

Inter-Governmental and Regional Organizations

African Union (AU)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
European Union (EU)
Gulf Cooperation Council for the Arab States (GCC)
Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
League of Arab States
New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Organization of American States (OAS)
Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation (OECD)
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)
The World Bank

Non-Governmental Organizations and Research Institutions

The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), Waterloo, Canada
Africa Peace Forum, Nairobi, Kenya
African Rights, London, United Kingdom
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Bradford University, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town, Capetown, South Africa
Center for Global Development (CGD), Washington, D.C.
Center for International Studies, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Policy Studies, Monterey, CA
Centre for Policy Studies, London, United Kingdom
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, D.C.
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva, Switzerland
Center of International Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Center on International Cooperation, New York University (CIC), New York, NY
Center on International Organization, Columbia University, New York, NY
Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF), Social Science Research Council, New York, NY
Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), New York, NY
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden
Department of War Studies, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
Fafo, Oslo, Norway
Fourth Freedom Forum, Goshen, Indiana
Ford Foundation, New York, NY
Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), Berlin, Germany
Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland
Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY
Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, DC
Human Rights First, New York, NY
Human Rights Watch, New York, NY
Institut Francais de Recherches Internationales (IFRI), Paris, France
Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
International Alert, London, United Kingdom
International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), New York, NY
International Crisis Group (ICG), Brussels, Belgium
International Development Research Council (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada
Interpeace (formerly WSP), Geneva, Switzerland
Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ), NYU, School of Law, New York, NY
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London, United Kingdom
International Relations and Security Network, Zurich, Switzerland
Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, Accra, Ghana
Liu Institute for Global Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Geneva, Switzerland
Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation, Tanzania
National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Washington, DC
Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, Nigeria
Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, Canada
Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, New York, NY
Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, NY
Southern African Political and Economic Series (SAPES), Harare, Zimbabwe
Stockholm International Peace Reseach Institute, Solna, Sweden
United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), New York, NY
United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington, DC
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
World Policy Institute, The New School, New York, NY