At COP29, DanChurchAid, Oxford Climate Policy (OCP), and the International Peace Institute (IPI) hosted a side event titled “Innovative Sources for Loss and Damage Funding: Introducing the Climate Solidarity Alliance” on November 15th.The event explored…
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On Sunday, September 18, IPI held its Eleventh Ministerial Dinner on the Middle East in its Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security, and Development. The working dinner drew the participation of foreign ministers, United Nations officials, special representatives of the Secretary- General to countries in the region, heads of humanitarian agencies and other high level […]
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David Bakradze, Georgia’s State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, described his country as “an island of stability in a turbulent region,” to an audience at IPI Vienna, September 13th.Dennis Sammut, Director of LINKS, provided some historical context to Georgia’s rise. Georgia was the fourth Soviet republic to organize a referendum on independence in the […]
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The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration, Peter Sutherland, told an IPI audience that the UN had to be in the lead in finding solutions to the worldwide crisis on refugees and migrants.Mr. Sutherland made his remarks at a July 20, 2016 event, “Ensuring No One is Left Behind: A High-Level […]
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An IPI forum took up the question of whether the International Human Rights system was something imposed on the Global South by the Global North, or if it had its origins in the South.The varying opinions regarding the geographical home of human rights, as well as, the “lack of trust and unity between the different […]
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Establishing rule of law is as much a political project as a technical one, experts agreed at an IPI policy forum on June 30, 2016. Through national case studies, experts explored ways and means of combining political engagement with technical expertise to establish effective and rights-based rule of law.Sima Sami Bahous, Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations […]
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