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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IPI and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), with support from the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), convened a half-day workshop on March 16, 2018, to contribute to advancements in, and the ongoing work of, the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and its membership. The workshop, which included approximately 40 participants, provided an off-the-record space for PBC members […]
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Global indices are a way to assess and compare national progress on key issues by distilling an array of complex information into a single number and ranking. Until recently, there was no index that explicitly brought together the three dimensions of women’s inclusion, access to justice, and security.To fill that void, a new women, peace, […]
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Development programs tend to include women affected by conflict and violence as passive beneficiaries, rather than as active agents in strengthening gender equality, peacebuilding, and sustainable development. And where development partners do support women’s agency in strengthening recovery and reconciliation in rural areas, they often fail to link these activities to wider processes of women’s […]
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IPI was the scene on March 14th of the launch of a new handbook on peacebuilding in Africa and a discussion by prominent Africans on the state of peacebuilding, past and present, on the continent. In opening remarks, Fatima Kyari Mohammed, the new Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, said that […]
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In the wake of the Secretary-General’s recent report on Sustaining Peace, Sven Mikser, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Estonia was interviewed by the International Peace Institute on Estonia’s sustaining peace agenda and suggestions for implementing recommendations from the report.Asked what sustaining peace means for Estonia, Mikser articulated that to prevent conflict, “it’s crucial to […]
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