On September 23rd, IPI in partnership with the Kofi Annan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and International Crisis Group cohosted the inaugural event in the Kofi Annan Lecture Series featuring H.E. Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados.The…
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Agnia Grigas, author of Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire, outlined to an IPI audience a strategy that she said Russia has adopted to pursue its territorial ambitions and try to regain the stature it lost with the collapse of the Soviet empire.The strategy, which she labeled “compatriot protection,” posits that Moscow has the right, […]
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On Wednesday, June 8th, IPI hosted António Guterres of Portugal at a lunchtime Global Leaders Series event featuring official candidates vying to become the new UN secretary-general. After making a presentation, he participated in a wide-ranging question-and-answer format with members of the audience and those following via video.Mr. Guterres served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees […]
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On May 19, 2016, the International Peace Institute’s Middle East and North Africa office (IPI MENA) hosted Ahmad Khalfan al-Mansoori, Secretary-General of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for World Peace (MRAWP). Mr. Mansoori spoke about the organization’s aims and vision to an audience consisting of ambassadors, government officials, various religious communities, corporate institutions, […]
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An IPI event considered the challenges pertaining to mixed migration flows to Ethiopia, a country that currently hosts the largest number of refugees on the African continent.Clementine Awu Nkweta-Salami, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) Representative in Ethiopia, said that while repatriation is at its lowest level since the 1980s, the vast majority of […]
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Lamberto Zannier, the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co‑operation in Europe (OSCE), discussed the organization’s perspective on “Security Challenges in Europe,” at an IPI meeting, May 17, 2016.With a membership of 57 countries and based in Vienna, the OSCE is the largest intergovernmental body in the world. Though nominally a security organization, […]
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