IPI and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations cohosted a policy forum on March 13th on “The Protection of Civilians in African-led and UN-led Peace Operations.”The purpose of this event was to discuss how the…
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IPI and the Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations held a panel discussion and book launch for A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity, by Jan Egeland.As Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland was in charge of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for three and […]
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The International Peace Institute held a launch and discussion of a new book by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun, Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes War Possible.Merchant of Death provides a riveting account of the career of Viktor Bout, one of the world’s most sophisticated illicit arms traffickers and the […]
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The International Peace Institute, in cooperation with the Peacebuilding Support Office, held a policy discussion on poverty and conflict with economist Paul Collier, director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University.Collier’s recently published book, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, […]
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