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 private sector is not only a donor, it’s also an actor,” declared Paloma Durán, Director of the Sustainable Development Goals Fund. “We need to reflect and to see how to engage the private sector as an actor in our processes, meaning how to engage the private sector in the core design of programs, the […]
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Kristalina Georgieva, the Vice President of the European Commission, told an IPI Global Leader Series audience that while the world had been unprepared for the rapidity of modern change, she believed human and institutional versatility could meet the challenge of catching up.“I would argue that we can be reasonably positive because humans are incredibly adaptive […]
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With increasing attention being paid to the contest for who will become the next UN secretary-general, a September 22nd event co-sponsored by IPI and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs focused instead on what that person should do once he or she is in the job.The event was the annual Trygve Lie Symposium, and it […]
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Forty foreign ministers and high-level officials, as well as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous, gathered at IPI on September 21, 2016 to review the progress made in implementing of the recommendations outlined in the report of the High-Level Independent Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (HIPPO). They also discussed […]
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An overflow crowd attended the launch of the ICM final report at IPI on September 21 and heard a prediction from one of the co- chairs of the two-year project that the document would soon become essential reading for those plotting the future of the United Nations.“Regardless of who will be the next Secretary-General,” said […]
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