The upcoming Summit of the Future is an opportunity to turbocharge efforts toward a more peaceful, secure, and sustainable world. Discussions on revitalizing the work of the General Assembly and the Security Council reform can further serve as avenues…
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On February 24th, IPI hosted a policy forum on the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation and the role the United Nations played in that effort. The event’s panel was led by Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi, Permanent Representative of the State of Kuwait to the UN, who said that despite doubts in 1990 that the UN […]
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In November 2008, David Rohde, a correspondent for The New York Times, went off on a high-hazard trip in the Afghan hinterland to obtain an in-person interview with a Taliban commander for a book he was completing. He had just gotten married and had promised his new bride as well as his family and friends […]
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On February 14, 2011, IPI and the Quaker United Nations Office hosted a workshop for the incoming members of the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in collaboration with the UN Peacebuilding Support Office.The workshop, held under the Chatham House Rule and attended by representatives of the PBC’s Organizational Committee and Country-Specific Configurations, as well as UN […]
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The crisis in Côte d’Ivoire is a “real test of democracy,” said Ambassador Youssoufou Bamba of Côte d’Ivoire, addressing a standing-room-only audience at IPI. Speaking at the Feb. 7th inaugural event in IPI’s African Election Series, Ambassador Bamba said, “This election has been the most free, most transparent, the most inclusive, the most democratic we […]
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“What this book is really about is the last phase of Western dominance in the Indian Ocean,” author Robert D. Kaplan told an audience at an IPI Beyond the Headlines event featuring his book Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power.The book posits the premise that while the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans […]
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