IPI, Oxford Climate Policy, and the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force cohosted a closed-door, roundtable discussion on September 27th on the topic of “2024: The Turning Point for Innovative Financing and Solidarity Levies?”We are at an inflection…
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An IPI policy forum launched a new joint study by a UN office and a prominent Norwegian group showing that 36 million people were displaced in 2008 by sudden onset natural disasters — 20 million of them by climate-related disasters such as storms and floods.This large number of climate-related displacements has significant implications for the […]
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Dr. Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, and Daniel Levy, a member of Israel’s delegation to the Taba negotiations with the Palestinians in 2001, participated in a policy forum debate at IPI on the results of an IPI poll that portrayed Palestinians supporting a two-state peace plan.download […]
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IPI was the scene September 25th for a presentation on the prospects of achieving abolition of the death penalty hosted by the permanent mission of Sweden in cooperation with the permanent missions of Chile, the Philippines and Rwanda.Sweden’s Prime Minister, Frederik Rienfeldt, set the tone of the discussion two days earlier in a speech to […]
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How to reclaim the protection of civilians under international humanitarian law was the subject of the second annual Trygve Lie Symposium co-hosted by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and IPI.The chairman of the high-level September 24, 2009 meeting at IPI was Jonas Gahr Støre, the Foreign Minister of Norway, and in opening the discussion, he described […]
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On September 22nd, IPI and the Danish government co-hosted a high-level dialogue on the nexus of climate change and international security.Moderated by Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller, whose opening remarks are available for download, the event heard presentations by climate change experts before the floor was opened to environment and foreign ministers from states […]
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