“It has become a common refrain in recent months that 2020 is a critical year for Somalia, that 2020 is to be the year of delivery, the year of achievement, and we absolutely subscribe to that analysis,” said James Swan, the Special Representative of…
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“Diplomacy is about the alignment of interests, and politics is the pursuit of interests, often in contradiction to other parties’ interests,” said Alan Doss, the veteran leader of multiple United Nations peacekeeping missions. “I found that missions were taking the diplomacy route, but those in power were on political pursuits.”Mr. Doss, now the President of […]
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H.E Kai Boeckmann, German Ambassador, IPI MENA Director Nejib Friji, H.E Jerome Cauchard, French AmbassadorKai Boeckmann and Jérôme Cauchard, Ambassadors of Germany and France to Bahrain, made a joint presentation on “Regional Integration: Reflections & Lessons Learned” during the first session of IPI MENA’s “Ambassadorial Conferences Series” on February 26th. Together with the audience, the […]
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Just weeks after the committee named Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as the 2019 laureate IPI hosted Asle Toje, a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, for a conversation about the prize.Introducing Dr. Toje at the November 6th event, IPI Vice President Adam Lupel recalled that when he spoke at IPI for the first time […]
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On October 3rd, IPI commemorated the end of the event-filled high-level week beginning the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly with its traditional “Sigh of Relief” party. The guest of honor was the newly installed President of the GA, Tijani Muhammad-Bande of Nigeria, who outlined his priorities for the upcoming year and declared, […]
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In her new memoir, The Education of an Idealist, former American ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power says the question she heard most frequently during her three and a half years in the post was “what can one person do?”In a September 11th Distinguished Author Series event at IPI featuring the book, Ms. Power […]
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