The Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Section of the UN Department of Peace Operations’ (DPO) Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI) and the International Peace Institute (IPI) are pleased to invite you to a film…
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Anthony Banbury, the just-departed head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), told an IPI audience on February 3rd that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon played the “critical role” of mobilizing the global response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa last fall.Discussing “Ebola and the UN’s First Emergency Response,” Mr. Banbury—who until January 3rd […]
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On February 2-3, 2015 the International Peace Institute (IPI) held in Cairo, Egypt the concluding seminar in its series of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of World War I. Under the rubric, “Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future: The Middle East 1914-2014 and Beyond”, the meeting aimed to identify guideposts from history for […]
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In a discussion about his new book The Checkmate Pendulum: From Fiction to Reality that took place at IPI’s Vienna Office on January 29, former high-ranking UN official Antonio Maria Costa warned that “the world order as we have known it since the Second World War is changing, and the rulebook is being rewritten.” Citing “Russia’s […]
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On January 20th, Mongolia’s new Foreign Minister Purevsuren Lundeg visited the IPI Vienna office and gave an informal briefing on Mongolia’s contemporary foreign policy priorities and challenges. He described his country’s highest priorities as domestic stability, good relations with Mongolia’s two neighbors China and Russia, and links to “third neighbors,” particularly the United States, the […]
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Speaking to an overflow IPI audience on January 20th, Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders acknowledged how far the United Nations has come since its inception 70 years ago but said that the organization still “has a lot of growing up to do.”
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