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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IPI collaborated with the Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre and the United Nations to host a May 31st event entitled “Benchmarking Peace Consolidation.” This full-day seminar brought together senior and expert-level participants–including representatives of UN Member States, UN entities engaged in measuring aspects of peace consolidation, the World Bank, the OECD, and independent research and policy institutions–for […]
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The 41st session of the IPI Vienna Seminar has just been held at the Austrian Diplomatic Academy, focusing on the subject, Coping with Crisis in Europe and Central Asia: Adapting to New Threats and Challenges.This annual seminar–as old as IPI itself–was organized for the first time by IPI’s new office in Vienna, which opened in […]
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A meeting on May 19th at IPI’s Vienna office looked at challenges posed by the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters, and what international emergency response mechanisms are in place, particularly in Europe. Since its founding in 1975, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE, originally called the CSCE) has recognized the […]
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“We need to give Congolese the tools to solve their own problems,” said Jason Stearns, author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: the Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, during an IPI event on May 17th. “At the end of the day, it’s their duty, their responsibility. No foreigner is […]
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“There is a strong belief that transitional justice is needed now, both to demonstrate a real break with the past, but also to make sure that a new Tunisia is built on a solid foundation of respect for the rule of the law that includes accountability of its leaders, current and former,” said Ambassador Ghazi […]
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