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Task Forces on Strengthening Multilateral Security Capacity

The IPI Task Forces on Strengthening Multilateral Security Capacity aim to develop action-oriented recommendations for redoubling and reorienting the capacity of the UN and its partners to respond to emerging, multifaceted, and global security challenges. Bringing together eminent experts and UN Member State representatives, the Task Forces focus on identifying policies and institutional renovations needed at the multilateral level and concrete strategies for their effective implementation.

The Task Forces addressed two thematic clusters of issues, each of which was broken down into smaller expert Roundtables, as follows:

Task Force One
Transnational Security Challenges
Task Force Two
Inter and Intra-state Armed Conflict
  • Transnational Organized Crime
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • Countering Global Terrorism
  • Small Arms and Light Weapons
  • Biosecurity
  • Peace Operations
  • Mediation and Peace Processes
  • Peacebuilding
  • Conflict Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect


To provide a larger geopolitical and economic context for the work of the subsequent Task Forces, IPI held an Opening Symposium on “Development, Resources, and Environment: Defining Challenges for the Security Agenda.” This high-level meeting explored the ways in which developmental and environmental threats shape security challenges and multilateral capacity to address them effectively.

To read more about the IPI Task Forces, see the Concept Paper. Additional background documentation can be found at http://www.ipinst.org/task-forces.

Staff
Dr. Edward C. Luck, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies
Mr. Francesco Mancini, Associate
Mr. James Cockayne, Associate
Ms. Njambi Ouattara, Program Administrator