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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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an IPI audience that a series of reviews undertaken to mark the UN’s 70th anniversary had revealed that efforts to bring better governance to the world were falling behind evolving threats to political and social stability.
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IPI and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) co-hosted a workshop to review critically the findings of the Humanitarian Negotiations Exchange (HNx) project, an initiative introduced by the ICRC to enhance informal exchanges and peer learning among professionals engaged in negotiations and mediations in situations of armed conflict and other situations of violence. […]
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The deployment of United Nations peace operations in recent years to places where there is little peace to keep has resulted in increased casualties among peacekeepers, as spoilers and armed groups intentionally target UN personnel.
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Mass migration to Europe is raising havoc on the continent, where thousands of refugees encounter different responses in different countries, often bouncing from one border area to another. The European Union remains divided over the best way to deal with the crisis.
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The UN Security Council confronts a test of its relevance today as it struggles to meet the challenges of a new era, a key theme of the new book, The UN Security Council in the 21st Century. The book follows an earlier volume, The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century, […]
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