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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“The promotion of the rule of law does not occur in a political vacuum,” Colette Rausch, director of the Rule of Law Center of Innovation at the United States Institute of Peace, stated at an event at IPI on March 9th.“The differing and sometimes competing goals of non-governmental institutions, donors, member states and United Nations agencies can often […]
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On March 1st, IPI’s Vienna office convened a meeting to officially constitute the Vienna Advisory Council. The council has been formed in order to give advice with respect to the research, analysis, policy development, outreach, convening, and other programmatic activities of IPI’s work in Vienna. The Vienna Advisory Council is made up of nineteen distinguished […]
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On Friday, February 25, 2011, the International Peace Institute and the Permanent Mission of New Zealand to the UN, in collaboration with the School of Law at the University of Essex, held a policy forum to consider the issue of reviewing the 1990 United Nations Model Status of Forces Agreement (Model SOFA) to better address […]
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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 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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