IPI in partnership with the Kofi Annan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and International Crisis Group cohosted the second Kofi Annan Lecture Series on September 26th featuring Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and CEO of Rappler.Maria Ressa…
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Hilde Johnson, the outgoing Head of the UN Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS), gave an overflow IPI audience a dramatic account of the challenging situation that has faced the United Nations in the country since the eruption of mass violence at the end of last year.Speaking at the latest IPI Special Representatives […]
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From Iraq to Syria, from energy to counterterrorism, Iran and the United States share many common interests across the Middle East and ought to put aside their decades of hostility, said author and former Iranian diplomat Seyed Hossein Mousavian.Speaking at an IPI Distinguished Author Series event on June 25th featuring his book Iran and the […]
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The human rights situation in Ukraine is deteriorating, with the number of unlawful detentions, casualties, and enforced disappearances increasing across the country, according to the latest UN report released by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva and at IPI on June 18th.Ivan Šimonović, UN Assistant Secretary-General on Human […]
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Authors Séverine Autesserre and Philip Cunliffe told an IPI audience that the recent challenges and setbacks of peacekeeping operations are creating opportunities for looking at peacekeeping in a critical, outside-the-box way.Speaking at a “Critical Conversations on Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding” event on June 2nd, the two authors laid out new approaches to peacekeeping, when it comes […]
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Volker Türk, Director of International Protection at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told an IPI audience that rudimentary state structures and immediate life-threatening situations make the forced relocation of civilians the “measure of last resort” for the humanitarian community.Only a little over ten days ago, when the last convoy of […]
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