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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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Author Jenna Slotin

Jenna Slotin

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  • Policy Papers 06-21-2010by Jenna Slotin, Paul Romita and Vanessa Wyeth

    Power, Politics, and Change: How International Actors Assess Local Context

    The International Peace Institute (IPI) has undertaken a project called Understanding Local Context, which aims to enhance our understanding of how international actors grapple with local context and political dynamics in partner countries.

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    Multilateral System
  • Issue Briefs 11-19-2009by Jenna Slotin

    Issue Brief: Perspectives on the Peacebuilding Commission’s Coordination Role

    The founding resolutions of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) state that one of the main purposes of the commission is “to improve the coordination of all relevant actors within and outside the United Nations.” Can the PBC be expected to coordinate the many UN agencies, funds, and programs on the ground, let alone the many bilateral, […]

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    Peacebuilding
  • Issue Briefs 11-19-2009by Jenna Slotin

    Issue Brief: Perspectives on the Peacebuilding Commission and Mutual Accountability

    Mutual accountability has become one of the central principles that underpins the Peacebuilding Commission’s work. But, the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) has so far not fulfilled the full promise of this principle: to serve as a forum where national and international actors can hold each other to their commitments.

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    Peacebuilding
  • Meeting Notes 06-22-2009by Jenna Slotin, Castro Wesamba and Teemt Bekele, rapporteurs

    The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) and Genocide Prevention in Africa

    This report outlines the outcomes from an expert roundtable convened by IPI, the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and the InterAfrica Group, which took place in Addis Ababa in October, 2008.

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    Responsibility to Protect
  • Meeting Notes 02-08-2009by Jenna Slotin and Vanessa Wyeth, rapporteurs

    Improving International Responses to Armed Conflict

    IPI’s twelfth annual New York Seminar, Improving the International Response to Armed Conflict and State Fragility, took place at the Tarrytown Estate, New York, on May 5-8, 2008.

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    August 2, 2022 by Anjali Dayal

    Last week, at least 15 people died in protests demanding UN peacekeepers leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The week before, the military junta ruling Mali halted troop rotations for the UN mission there and ejected the…

    Analysis, africa, peacekeeping, united nations
  • The 2022 UN Peacekeeping Budget: Signs of Progress or a Fleeting Moment of Consensus?

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    Member states agreed to an overall increase in the peacekeeping budget for the first time in…

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    Looking at green water, the rainwater available to plants, shows that freshwater’s ability to sustain a stable Earth system is even more threatened than…

    Analysis, climate change, governance
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    July 8, 2022 by Chimwemwe A. Fabiano, Youssef Mahmoud
    The African continent has a rich and varied repertoire of formal and informal capacities, knowledge, and experiences to decolonize the study and practice of peace and develop an integrated African agenda for sustaining peace.
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    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…

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The International Peace Institute is an independent, international not-for-profit think tank with a staff representing more than 20 nationalities, located in New York across from United Nations headquarters. IPI is dedicated to promoting the prevention and resolution of conflicts between and within states by strengthening international peace and security institutions. To achieve its purpose, IPI employs a mix of policy research, convening, publishing and outreach.

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