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…
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Rising nationalist discourse and ethnic tensions have reinforced the need to prevent conflict grown from societal division. Such was the topic of a July 18th discussion on “conflict prevention through societal integration” at IPI, featuring OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ambassador Lamberto Zannier.To address the inadequate response to the minority-based ethnic conflicts of the […]
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The subject of the June 21st Speaker Series event at IPI was “The Risks of Politicizing Humanitarian Action: The UNRWA Perspective,” and the speaker, Pierre Krähenbühl, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), focused his comments on what he said was the most misunderstood of […]
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The most recent round of fighting that erupted in Libya in April, even as a national conference to find elements of consensus in the country was imminent, threatens to widen into an enduring civil war unless the international community acts now to halt it, said Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of […]
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Abdoulaye Bathily was named Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on Madagascar in April 2018 at a particularly precarious moment in the frequently distressed Malagasy public life. The country had had a 30-year history of national leaders being turned out of office before their terms were up when the outcome of a runoff second round […]
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The European Union’s relationship with the countries of the Sahel is an agenda for both security and development, but one cannot progress without the other, said Pedro Serrano, Deputy Secretary-General for Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP) and Crisis Response at the European External Action Service (EEAS). “It’s clear there will be no peace in […]
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