Policy Papers - July 14, 2002

Sharing Best Practices on Conflict Prevention

The UN does not act alone in conflict prevention. It is important for the UN to identify other actors with comparative advantages in certain aspects of conflict prevention, and to partner wisely with them.

Meeting Notes - July 13, 2002

Sharing Best Practices on Conflict Prevention: The UN, Regional and Subregional Organizations, National and Local Actors Workshop Report

A report summarizing the discussions at the April 8-10, 2002, Prevention program workshop held in partnership with the Swedish Institute in Alexandria, Egypt.

Meeting Notes - April 13, 2002

Empowering Local Actors: the UN and Multi-Track Conflict Prevention

A report from the Conflict Prevention program covering the discussions on partnerships between the UN and civil society organizations in the cases of PRODERE in Central America, CIDP in Ukraine, and MARWOPNET in West Africa, from a December 10, 2001, policy workshop.

Meeting Notes - March 13, 2002

Toward a Pax West Africana: Building Peace in a Troubled Sub-region

A report on the IPA-ECOWAS September 27-29, 2001, Abuja Seminar exploring the development of ECOWAS's regional mechanism for security and development in West Africa.  

Books - October 19, 2001

Kosovo: An Unfinished Peace

Despite the deployment of NATO forces in Kosovo and the UN's direct involvement in governing the province, such terrors as murder, disappearances, bombings, and arson have become routine occurrences.  

Meeting Notes - October 13, 2001

Regional Approaches to Conflict Management in Africa

This report presents a summary of the presentations and discussions during a meeting of the UN Security Council, members of the UN Secretariat, and a select group of experts on conflict management efforts in Africa held on August 8, 2001.  

Meeting Notes - July 13, 2001

Southern Africa's Evolving Security Architecture: Problems and Prospects

A report based on IPA/Africa Renaissance Institute/Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies/Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand Seminar on Southern Africa's Evolving Security Architecture: Problems and Prospects, in Gaborone, Botswana between December 11 and 13, 2000. 

Books - June 01, 2001

Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century

This special volume of International Peacekeeping, was largely written by a diverse group of younger scholars.  

Policy Papers - July 12, 2000

An Assessment of the OAU Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution, 1993-2000

An assessment of the Mechanism, which was informed by the now completed OAU/IPA Joint Task Force on Peacemaking and Peacekeeping in Africa.

Meeting Notes - July 13, 1999

Cooperation Between the UN and NATO: Quo Vadis?

Background paper and report based on a Seminar on UN-NATO Relations, New York, June 11, 1999.