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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A high-level panel took up the subject of preventing mass atrocities and how the United Nations Security Council can do better at the International Peace Institute on September 26th 2015, during the week marking the opening of the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly.The expert panel focused in on assessment of proposals to prevent […]
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On September 25th, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be met over the next 15 years. The excitement was still palpable the next morning at a breakfast meeting convened at the International Peace Institute on “Accelerating Efforts to Promote Gender Equality […]
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At an IPI meeting on September 21st, the International Day of Peace, the KAICIID Dialogue Centre unveiled a new PeaceMap, designed to give visibility to the many organizations working on interreligious dialogue worldwide, and help to encourage collaboration among these organizations. The map was made in collaboration with IPI.Metropolitan Emmanual, a member of the KAICIID […]
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Youssef Mahmoud told an IPI audience September 15th that “unarmed protection is not about the presence or the absence of arms,” in UN peacekeeping activities, but rather, “this is about a culture, a way of going about addressing the vulnerabilities of civilians in armed conflict.”Mr. Mahmoud serves as a member of the High-Level Independent Panel […]
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“The current power vacuums and chaos in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen are essentially results of serious political mistakes, miscalculations, delusions, and blunders,” said Former Turkish President Abdullah Gul at an IPI MENA event in Manama, Bahrain, on September 15, 2015. Mr. Gul said that it is a priority to fill the power vacuum created […]
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