In 2011 (continued…)

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  Panel Discussions 03-23-2011

  Numbers of Internally Displaced People Highest in Decade

  The number of people around the world displaced by conflict or violence within their own countries has increased to 27.5 million in 2010, the highest figure in the last decade, according to a new report launched at IPI on March 23rd. The report, by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, was presented at IPI by […]

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  Panel Discussions 03-22-2011

  Qaddafi a “Serious Threat” But Only Libyans Can Oust Him

  Col. Muammar Qaddafi is a “serious threat” but it is the Libyan people who must be the ones to remove him, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the UN, told a gathering at IPI’s office in Vienna. Speaking at the March 22nd event, “Peace and Justice in a Time of Instability: […]

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  Panel Discussions 03-22-2011

  Dan Plesch: “America, Hitler and the UN”

  Dan Plesch, Director at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, University of London, led a panel discussion at IPI on his new book America, Hitler and the UN. In his book, Dr. Plesch posits that the Declaration of the United Nations on January 1, 1942 played a key role in building public and political […]

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  Panel Discussions 03-14-2011

  Panel on the Future of South Sudan

  While this is an exciting period for the people of South Sudan, they (and their neighbors in the North) are facing many difficult tasks and challenges. The status of Abyei and post-referendum issues between North and South – citizenship, oil sharing, border demarcation, currency, and others – remain to be resolved. In addition, the South […]

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  Panel Discussions 03-09-2011

  Panel on Rule of Law in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations

  “The promotion of the rule of law does not occur in a political vacuum,” Colette Rausch, director of the Rule of Law Center of Innovation at the United States Institute of Peace, stated at an event at IPI on March 9th.“The differing and sometimes competing goals of non-governmental institutions, donors, member states and United Nations agencies can often […]

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