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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One year after the establishment of the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR), the peace process in the country is making some progress, but reconciliation is still the key challenge for the war-torn country, said Babacar Gaye, United Nations special representative and head of the UN mission in CAR.Speaking at IPI two […]
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Amin Awad, the director of the Middle East and North Africa Bureau of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), says the refugee crisis across Syria and Iraq has reached unprecedented levels and warns that in the absence of a political solution, the international community should increase the funding of humanitarian efforts in the region.Mr. […]
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When 16-year-old Abdelaziz from Bahrain joined the group known today as the Islamic State, it was because he felt “imprisoned” and “tied up” in his life at home and longed to be free, living the honorable life of his “brothers” fighting in Syria. After deceiving his parents, Abdelaziz managed to get into Syria and joined […]
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On March 30th, IPI’s Vienna Office hosted a roundtable on “Russia and the maintenance of international peace and security” with Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations. The event was held under the Chatham House rule of non-attribution.Participants included bilateral as well as multilateral ambassadors, high-ranking representatives of […]
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Regional organizations can go a long way in supporting global peace and security because they can provide the UN system with regional expertise as well as local knowledge of regional crises, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Igor Lukšić of Montenegro said at IPI on March 5th.
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