IPI and Grace Farms Foundation cohosted the second Art for Peace series event featuring global human rights advocate and artist Nasreen Sheikh on March 26th.For the first time publicly, Nasreen Sheikh did a reading of her poem “A Table for Peace,” which…
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On December 16, IPI Vienna hosted a meeting on peace polling with keynote speaker Colin Irwin of the University of Liverpool. Peace polls are public opinion polls designed to test a series of questions and seek to identify common ground on which a peace process can move forward. Unlike market surveys or binary polls designed […]
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United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan Nicholas Haysom told an IPI audience that the country faced three transitions—security, economic, and political—and must manage them all to survive. “It has no option,” he said. “It can’t do two out of three and pass. If it goes down on the economy or on the […]
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres told an IPI audience that as millions of refugees flee war and persecution, the multilateral system has failed to mobilize the resources necessary to move them to safety in a dignified and efficient way.“The humanitarian response system is today financially broke,” the High Commissioner said. “We are […]
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Steven Lee Myers, author of a new biography, The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, told an IPI audience that the Russian leader’s aggressive international posture is motived by his belief that he must protect Russia from outside forces.Mr. Myers said that Putin believes “that there are forces—and by that he means […]
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Mass migration to Europe is raising havoc on the continent, where thousands of refugees encounter different responses in different countries, often bouncing from one border area to another. The European Union remains divided over the best way to deal with the crisis.
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