In collaboration with the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation and the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the UN, IPI convened a hybrid policy forum on the margins of the UN Security Council’s Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) on October 25th. The…
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On Sunday, September 17, 2017 IPI held its twelfth Ministerial Dinner on the Middle East in its Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security, and Development. The working dinner drew the participation of foreign ministers, United Nations officials, special representatives of the Secretary-General to countries in the region, heads of humanitarian agencies and other high level […]
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Muzoon Almellahan was forced to flee Syria in 2013, to spend three years in crowded refugee camps in Jordan before being resettled with her family in the British city of Newcastle, where she is now a high school senior taking university preparatory courses. “Leaving Syria, my dad told me I couldn’t bring everything and only […]
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IPI was the scene on September 18, 2017 of a policy forum opening the annual Global Mayors Summit, where international mayors presented local and city-level solutions to help in developing two separate but related compacts on the treatment of migrants.The compacts, to be signed next year, were created during last year’s UN Leaders Summit to […]
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“What’s needed is not more incrementalism,” declared Jeni Whalan, author of a new IPI report on sexual exploitation and abuse in UN Peacekeeping.“Preventing SEA in peacekeeping and responding appropriately will not happen with business as usual reforms,” she said. “What’s needed are genuinely game changing efforts.”Dr. Whalan was speaking to a September 11, 2017 IPI […]
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Promoting an international peace culture is essential to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Kuwaiti poet and activist Abdulaziz Saud Al-Baptain told an IPI audience on September 7th at an event entitled, “Advancing the Culture of Peace.”Focusing on a culture of peace is “a continuous course that we must not stop,” said Mr. […]
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