In October 2025, the UN community will mark the 25th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which launched the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda. Since 2019, IPI has analyzed challenges and successes in increasing uniformed women’s…
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Emphasizing the link between humanitarian efforts and preserving world heritage, Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, congratulated IPI on its “Women in Art for Peace” exhibition, which she visited, May 18, 2017.Addressing the press, Ms. Bokova said, “I am delighted to be here and to see women painters being encouraged about art for peace.”The exhibition, […]
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Author Steven A. Cook joined IPI to discuss the key arguments of his book, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East at a May 17th Distinguished Authors Series event. The book focuses on the Arab Spring uprisings, which spread across the Middle East and North Africa from 2010 to 2013, but […]
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“When I hear most politicians speaking, they speak as if there’s a surge of violence on planet earth,” said Erik Solheim during his April 25th IPI Leading for Peace presentation. “They speak as if we’re living at the most violent of times, when the truth is exactly the opposite.”Mr. Solheim, who is the Executive Director […]
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“Everyone is scrambling around trying to do the possible,” said IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen while reflecting on how an unlikely peace agreement, the Oslo peace accords, was forged between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1993. Sometimes it’s easier to do the impossible, he said, “because you have the whole field to yourself.”Mr. […]
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Amina Mohammed, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, told a thronged reception at IPI that the gender parity policy that she and Secretary-General António Guterres have championed at the UN must run through the entire organization.“We want to see gender parity not just at the level of USG and ASG in positions of decision-making—that […]
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