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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Jack Lang, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Legal Issues Related to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, said at an IPI event on January 25, 2011, “We have to attack piracy at the head.”Mr. Lang referred several times to piracy “masterminds,” and asserted, “Each time that we know a mastermind, we have to apply […]
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“Hezbollah’s top choice is a war with Israel they can blame on Israel at the best time for Hezbollah,” said Thanassis Cambanis, reporter and author of the book A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel. His statement came in response to a question put to him on whether Hezbollah […]
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Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, Deputy Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), briefed an IPI audience on December 14th on the outcomes of the Lisbon NATO Summit and NATO’s new Strategic Concept that will serve as a roadmap for the alliance.
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Youssef Mahmoud, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) said this at an IPI event “MINURCAT: The Challenges of an Early Exit,” in reference to the Chadian government’s call for an early withdrawal of the UN mission there. A long-time UN diplomat who has held […]
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“The most important and overlooked religious struggles of our time are those inside of religions, not between them,” said Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel, Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, during an IPI event on October 14th.“They’re the struggles between liberals and conservatives over who is a true believer and […]
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