Cyberspace has enabled human interaction and helped advance human development, but it has at the same time become a “global, political and military battleground,” said Jüri Luik, the Defense Minister of Estonia, addressing a March 28th IPI forum on…
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Norway’s Foreign Minister, Ine Eriksen Søreide, was honored at an evening reception at IPI on March 14th during the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) gathering at the United Nations. Foreign Minister since October, 2017, Ms. Eriksen Søreide is the first woman to occupy the post, and in her remarks, she emphasized why […]
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Addressing a Distinguished Author Series audience at IPI on February 26th, writer William Drozdiak listed three key elements of postwar governance that had brought peace and prosperity to Europe—a continent, he noted, once better known for producing world wars. The three were a common currency, the free passage across national borders of goods and people, […]
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Shahidul Haque, the Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh, told an IPI audience on February 15th that his government was committed to accommodating the 1.1 million Rohingya people who had fled Myanmar and crossed into Bangladesh but that the overwhelming numbers of the refugees and the speed with which they were arriving had presented Bangladesh with “formidable […]
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Nickolay Mladenov, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO), detailed a decade of deteriorating conditions in Gaza, noting that it had “de-developed” over the past ten years of governance under Hamas and that a new agreement promising a reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah had stalled. “Hope was created with the […]
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Phillippe Lazzarini, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, told a December 1st meeting on “Addressing the Humanitarian Situation in Lebanon” that though the country had proved remarkably resilient while hosting 1.5 million refugees from Syria—the highest number of refugees per capita in the world—pressure on the 5.9 million Lebanese themselves was rising.“We […]
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