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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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has festered for decades, with periodic outbursts of violence, as negotiations mediated by the United States have produced no viable solutions. In Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East, author Rashid Khalidi examines what he calls the failure of the U.S.’s role as the impartial broker […]
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“The protection of civilians never operates out of context,” Hilde Johnson, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS), said at an IPI event on March 11, 2013. “It takes place within a context, and the context in the case of South Sudan is three […]
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Most, if not all, of today’s conflicts are guerilla wars. From the war in Afghanistan to the volatile conflict in Syria, guerilla tactics have become the standard model in modern warfare. To help better understand these conflicts, Max Boot, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, presented his new book Invisible Armies: An Epic […]
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Dr. Abdul Mawgoud Dardery, an Egyptian parliamentarian who is a spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party, told an IPI audience that dialogue and a willingness to reach agreement with political rivals were integral parts of the organization.Addressing portrayals of the Muslim Brotherhood as a radical group that sought to dominate Egypt, he […]
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“I have come to discover a country that is of unique beauty, a country of people of extraordinary resilience and courage, upon which history has shared a very heavy cast, full of hatred, full of crime, and untold misery,” said Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, for the past five months the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head […]
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