IPI and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN cohosted a policy forum on April 10th on “Unconstitutional Changes of Government in Peace Operations Settings: Multilateral Responses.”Since 2020, there have been at least a dozen…
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While military and security responses to violence and its multifaceted consequences in the Sahel-Sahara region may be necessary, they have limits, and have, at times, produced adverse results. Alternative strategies that leverage the resilience capacities of local communities in the region remain understudied and undervalued. These alternatives were the focus of a recent meeting in […]
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IPI was the scene, on September 28th, of a lively discussion among senior United Nations mediators and the author of a new book called Negotiating Peace: A Guide to the Practice, Politics, and Law of International Mediation.The author was Sven M. Koopmans, a past member of UN and European Union mediation teams, international lawyer, academic, […]
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“We are witnessing widespread efforts to silence and delegitimize, specifically targeted at women human rights defenders,” Michelle Bachelet, the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, told a September 27th forum at IPI on human rights defenders.In one of her first public appearances since becoming High Commissioner three weeks earlier, Ms. Bachelet, the former […]
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On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, IPI held its sixth Ministerial Dinner on Peace Operations in its Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security, and Development. The dinner was attended by foreign ministers and high-level delegates representing twenty-seven member states, along with the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations.The Ministerial Dinner followed the Secretary-General’s high-level meeting on […]
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Only two percent of the mediators in formal peace processes from 1990 to 2017 were women, and this significant and persistent underrepresentation was the subject of a wide-ranging September 26th discussion at IPI.Setting out the problem in introductory remarks, IPI President Terje Rød- Larsen said, “Research increasingly shows that peace processes that substantively include women […]
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