Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief, told an IPI audience on November 9th that the kingdom would never permit an international investigation into the death of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.“The kingdom is not…
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“Listen to what refugees are telling us” was the simple advice that Volker Türk, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), gave to an IPI meeting on November 2nd on Addressing Contemporary Protection Challenges in Complex Crises.He spoke at a time when displacement has reached critical dimensions, with 68.5 million […]
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Cyber weapons can inflict massive damage but are cheap, reliable, portable, easily hidden and hard to detect, New York Times National Security Correspondent David E. Sanger told a packed house at IPI the evening of October 18th. “Most importantly,” he said, “you can dial it up and dial it down, you can’t do that with a […]
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Philippe Lazzarini, the United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, was recalling how Jan Eliasson, the former UN Deputy Secretary-General, described the country to him before he first went there on assignment 30 years ago.“It’s like a man hanging on the twelfth floor of a building, having a neighborhood looking […]
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In 2014, when Margot Wallström took office as Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, her country became the first in the world to launch what it called a feminist foreign policy, applying a systematic gender equality perspective throughout the whole foreign policy agenda.Speaking at a September 27th IPI Global Leaders Series event on Women and International Peace, […]
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Gbehzohngar Findley, Liberia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, told an IPI Global Leaders Series event on September 26th that the country’s new development framework, the Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development, aimed to benefit the vulnerable, promote inclusion and align with the sustainable development goals (SDGs).“We are still in the process of developing the Pro-Poor Agenda, […]
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