On April 24th, IPI hosted a Global Leaders Series event featuring H.E. Dennis Francis, President of the UN General Assembly. The conversation between IPI President Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and H.E. Dennis Francis took place on the International Day of…
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On June 9, 2011, IPI hosted a World Affairs Forum discussion with Dr. Ibrahim Gambari, Joint AU-UN Special Representative for the African Union/United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).
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“We need to give Congolese the tools to solve their own problems,” said Jason Stearns, author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: the Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, during an IPI event on May 17th. “At the end of the day, it’s their duty, their responsibility. No foreigner is […]
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Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was a rarity in the Middle East, a resident of Gaza with a permit to enter Israel because of his work. The son of refugees in the Gazan city of Jabaliya, he saw himself as a bridge between the two distrustful cultures, and his life was often put forward as an example […]
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Knut Vollebaek, the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), made this comment to an IPI audience on April 14th that addressed the subject “Promoting Integration and Preventing Conflict in Multiethnic Societies: Challenges and Opportunities.” Ambassador Vollebaek, a former Norwegian Foreign Minister and envoy to the United […]
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Israeli President Shimon Peres told a gathering at IPI of all fifteen Security Council members and the ambassadors of Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority that a UN vote on Palestinian statehood would not bring peace to the Middle East. Mr. Peres argued the UN could not create a state that Israel could accept because […]
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