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    The International Peace Institute (IPI) is an independent, international not-for-profit think tank dedicated to managing risk and building resilience to promote peace, security, and sustainable development. To achieve its purpose, IPI employs a mix of policy research, strategic analysis, publishing, and convening. With staff from more than twenty countries and a broad range of academic fields, IPI has offices facing United Nations headquarters in New York and an office in Manama.

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Staff Adam Lupel

Adam Lupel, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Adam Lupel has been Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the International Peace Institute since 2016. He served as IPI Acting President and CEO from October 2020 to March 2021. He is...
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Adam Lupel has been Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the International Peace Institute since 2016. He served as IPI Acting President and CEO from October 2020 to March 2021. He is responsible for developing IPI’s long-term research agenda and for overseeing management and coordination between IPI’s offices in New York and Manama. Between 2014 and 2016 he served as the director of research and publications for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism, a project of IPI. In 2015, he led IPI’s support to the General Assembly mandated “Lessons Learned Exercise” on the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, working in close collaboration with the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.

Dr. Lupel also conducts research on issues related to globalization, multilateralism, and the prevention of mass atrocities. He is the author of Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracy’s Transnational Dilemma (2009) and the co-editor of Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies? (2011) and Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action (2013).

Prior to 2006, when he joined IPI as Editor, he was the Managing Editor of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, and he taught modern and contemporary political theory at The New School’s Eugene Lang College in New York. He has a PhD in political theory and an MA in liberal studies from the New School for Social Research and a BA in international relations with a concentration in Latin America from Boston University.

He tweets at @ALupel.

Selected Publications

Books

  • Adam Lupel and Ernesto Verdeja, eds., Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2013).
  • James Cockayne and Adam Lupel, eds. Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies? (London, UK: Routledge, 2011). An earlier version of this manuscript was published as James Cockayne and Adam Lupel, eds. “Peace Operations and Organized Crime,” Special Issue, International Peacekeeping 16 No. 1 (February 2009).
  • Adam Lupel, Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracy’s Transnational Dilemma (London, UK: Routledge, 2009).

Articles

  • Adam Lupel, “Thought Leadership in Uncertain Times: Four Global Trends,” in The Future of Think Tanks and Policy Advice in the United States, edited by James McGann (Geneva: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
  • Adam Lupel and Lauri Mälksoo, “A Necessary Voice: Small States, International Law, and the UN Security Council” (New York: International Peace Institute, April 2019)
  • Adam Lupel and Michael Snyder, “The Mission to Stop Ebola: Lessons for UN Crisis Response” (New York: International Peace Institute, February 2017)
  • Alex J. Bellamy and Adam Lupel, “Why We Fail to Prevent Mass Atrocities” (New York: International Peace Institute, June 2015)
  • Adam Lupel, “Global Crises and the Future of Transnational Democracy,” in Global Citizens in Charge: How Modern Direct Democracy Can Make Our Representative Democracies Truly Representative, edited by Jung-Ok Lee and Bruno Kaufmann (Seoul: Korea Democracy Foundation, 2009).
  • Adam Lupel, “Tasks of a Global Civil Society: Held, Habermas and Democratic Legitimacy Beyond the Nation-State,” Globalizations 2, No. 1 (May 2005).
  • Adam Lupel, “Regionalism and Globalization: Post-nation or Extended Nation?” Polity 36, No. 2 (January 2004).

Global Observatory

  • “Two Tasks to Get Past the Crisis of Multilateralism,” August 5, 2019.
  • “In Peace and in War Gender Equality Is Everyone’s Battle,” December 13, 2018 (with Sarah Taylor).
  • “Everyone Supports Preventing Atrocity Crimes, But What Works?” May 7, 2018.
  • “Reimagining Crisis Response: Lessons from the UN’s Ebola Mission,” February 28, 2017 (with Michael Snyder).
  • “Multilateral Jiu-Jitsu: Turning Crisis into Opportunity,” February 8, 2017.
  • “Toward a New ‘Agenda for Peace,'” September 23,2016.
  • “Balancing Sovereignty and Democracy at the UN,” September 16, 2013.
  • “Political Alternatives to Military Action in Syria: Interview with Adam Lupel,” September 4, 2013.
  • “Debating the Use of Force: When Should We Intervene to Stop Mass Atrocities,” July 22, 2013.
  • “Sixth Summit of the Americas: What Are They Really Talking About,” April 13, 2012.
  • “In the Shadow of Violence, it’s the Right vs the Right in Guatemalan Election,” November 4, 2011.

Recent articles from
the Global Observatory

  • One Crisis, Multiple Norms: Strengthening Human Protection in Mali and the Sahel

    June 17, 2022 by Adrian Gallagher, Blake Lawrinson, Charles T. Hunt

    The UN Security Council does not have the luxury of choosing between normative imperatives associated with preventing…

    Analysis, peacekeeping, sahel
  • Peacebuilding Financing in Guinea-Bissau and Lessons for Overlooked Countries

    June 3, 2022 by Gustavo de Carvalho

    Despite the instability it faces, Guinea-Bissau—alongside countries like Madagascar, Chad, or the…

    Analysis, africa, peacebuilding, united nations
  • The Role of Peacekeepers in Protecting Civilians from Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

    May 25, 2022 by Jenna Russo

    There are a number of reasons why it is difficult for…

    Analysis, peacekeeping, protection of civilians, women peace and security
  • Protecting Peace? How the Protection of Civilians Contributes to Peace Processes

    May 23, 2022 by Jenna Russo

    Without a corresponding political process, UN protection activities are an ineffective bandaid in situations of…

    Analysis, peacekeeping, protection of civilians
  • Russia, NATO, and International Organizations

    May 23, 2022 by Kseniya Oksamytna
    As Finland and Sweden begin the process of applying for NATO membership, misleading narratives about the role of NATO’s so-called eastward expansion in “provoking” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continue to hold sway.
    Analysis, conflict, eastern europe
  • Sanctions and the Costs of Russia’s War in Ukraine

    May 12, 2022 by Erica Moret
    The sanctions imposed against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine mark a new page in global sanctions practice yet lessons from earlier cases could help increase efficacy and minimize costs.
    Analysis, conflict, europe, ukraine
  • A4P+ and Uniformed Women’s Participation in Peacekeeping

    April 26, 2022 by Gretchen Baldwin, Jake Sherman

    The UN, in its implementation of A4P+, must address the heavily masculine, exclusionary, and militarized structures which often preclude women (and anyone outside of a very…

    Analysis, Action for Peacekeeping, peacekeeping, women peace and security
  • Despite Constraints, MINUSMA Remains the Legitimate International Partner to Mali

    April 21, 2022 by Rida Lyammouri

    Facing its most difficult period since its inception in April 2013, MINUSMA, and…

    Analysis, africa, mali, peacekeeping
  • While Afghans Wait, States and Banks Decrypt the Humanitarian Exception in the Taliban Sanctions Regime

    April 14, 2022 by Agathe Sarfati

    Amid mounting pressure to…

    Analysis, Afghanistan, humanitarian affairs
  • What Are the International Military Options for the Sahel?

    April 12, 2022 by Nina Wilén, Paul D. Williams

    The complex, and not always coordinated, ecosystem of military operations across the Sahel has been aptly labeled a security traffic jam. Why are external forces in the Sahel?…

    Analysis, mali, peacekeeping, sahel

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