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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 around the world 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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Author James Cockayne

James Cockayne

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  • Books 10-12-2011James Cockayne and Adam Lupel, editors

    Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies?

    Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international community’s fight against organized crime. This book explores how, in some cases, peace operations and organized crime are clear enemies, while in others, they may become tacit allies.

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    Peacekeeping, Transnational Organized Crime
  • Policy Papers 09-07-2010by James Cockayne, Christoph Mikulaschek and Chris Perry

    The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights from a New Dataset

    This new IPI report examines trends in how the Security Council has engaged with civil wars since 1989 and the gradual evolution of the Council’s civil-war response strategies, including where and when it chose to engage.

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    UN Security Council
  • Policy Papers 10-14-2009by James Cockayne and Phil Williams

    The Invisible Tide: Towards an International Strategy to Deal with Drug Trafficking Through West Africa

    An invisible tide is rising on the shores of West Africa, creeping into its slums, its banks, its courts, its barracks, and its government ministries.

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    Transnational Organized Crime
  • Meeting Notes 08-21-2009by James Cockayne

    A Workshop with the UN Working Group on Mercenaries

    On July 29, 2009, the International Peace Institute convened a meeting of civil society, academic, and industry representatives to meet with the United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the rights of peoples to self-determination.

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    Humanitarian Affairs
  • Books 07-27-2009James Cockayne (editor), Alison Gurin, Emily Speers Mears, Iveta Cherneva, Sheila Oviedo, and Dylan Yaeger

    Beyond Market Forces: Regulating the Global Security Industry

    Private military and security companies play an increasingly visible role in conflict and post-conflict situations. Properly regulated, they may offer efficient and responsive means for governments to deliver security in insecure environments. But well publicized abuses suggest that an adequate regulatory framework is urgently needed.

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  • Policy Papers 03-15-2009by James Cockayne and Emily Speers Mears

    Private Military and Security Companies: A Framework for Regulation

    In this IPI paper, Cockayne and Mears examine the shortcomings of existing state, industry, intergovernmental, and civil society mechanisms for global security industry regulation, and put forward five possible regulatory frameworks for the global security industry.

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    Governance
  • Issue Briefs 03-13-2009by James Cockayne

    Five Blueprints for Regulating the Global Security Industry

    This policy brief examines options for improving international regulation of private military and security companies (PMSCs).

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    Governance
  • Publications 01-20-2009by James Cockayne, Lead Rapporteur

    Transnational Organized Crime: IPI Blue Paper no. 2

               The paper highlights how states and international organizations so far have largely failed to anticipate the evolution of transnational organized crime (TOC) into a strategic threat to governments, societies, and economies. At the international level, a largely outdated understanding of TOC does not adequately contemplate the strategic impact of TOC, and commonly fails to ensure […]

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  • Meeting Notes 04-14-2008by James Cockayne and Daniel Pfister

    Peace Operations and Organized Crime

    Drawn from a seminar jointly convened by the International Peace Institute and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, this paper explores the relationship between organized crime and international peace operations, a hitherto largely neglected area of both scholarly and practitioner-led discourse.

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    Peacekeeping, Transnational Organized Crime
  • Meeting Notes 02-13-2008by James Cockayne and Christoph Mikulaschek

    Transnational Security Challenges and the United Nations: Overcoming Sovereign Walls and Institutional Silos

    The International Peace Institute’s 2007 West Point Seminar brought together participants from over forty Permanent Missions to the UN and four governmental and nongovernmental organizations to discuss how the UN can address transnational security challenges more effectively.

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    Multilateral System
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