With European ministers meeting in summits this week to discuss the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children fleeing conflict zones and landing on their shores, the conversation among leaders…

The seventh annual African Junior Professionals Fellows program from July 6-30 2015 provided a further opportunity to deepen the relationship between the emerging generation of young African leade…

Taha’s dream at the moment is to become a hair stylist. “She has talent for it,” her mother says. Taha* is 16 years old, from Homs, Syria, but had to flee with her family when fighting from the civil …

Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is increasingly being affected by high levels of conflict and instability, which has left hundreds of people dead and thousands more wounded since 2011. The latest of these att…

Speaking at an IPI Distinguished Author Series event on February 12th, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof made an impassioned case for the importance of giving and helping others, …

On February 7, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) confirmed the country’s forthcoming general elections would be postponed by six weeks. Initially scheduled for February 14, vo…

Good governance is the key to Africa’s rise, but structural challenges are pulling the continent back, according to a new report launched at a December 12th IPI policy forum entitled “Effective Go…

Violence related to the Boko Haram insurgency has killed an estimated 11,000 people in Nigeria between 2003 and 2014, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, and in excess of 5,000 of these f…

AMISOM's Brig. General Dick Olum speaks to his soldiers before the launch of the military Operation Indian Ocean against al-Shabaab in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia, August 29, 2014. (AMISOM/T…

After a car accident, two men argue over who was at fault,  Brooklyn, New York. (Lou Bueno/Flickr) “The most effective mediator is nearly invisible,” said Brad Heckman, CEO of the New York Pea…