IPI in partnership with the Kofi Annan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and International Crisis Group cohosted the second Kofi Annan Lecture Series on September 26th featuring Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and CEO of Rappler.Maria Ressa…
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The International Peace Institute (IPI) held a thronged farewell reception on December 15, 2016 for outgoing Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who responded by saying, “Even though I am leaving, my heart will never leave the United Nations. I will always be with you.”Mr. Ban took the occasion to praise his successor, Secretary-General–designate António Guterres, also an […]
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Pierre Krähenbühl, the head of the UN agency responsible for a Palestinian population that has soared from 750,000 people at its inception in 1950 to five million today, said that it was no longer enough to focus on managing the festering crisis but necessary now to try to resolve it.“Surely, this is a time to […]
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“I am arguing that Islam is fundamentally different from other religions, that it is exceptional,” said scholar and author Shadi Hamid, explaining the title of his new book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World to a November 1st IPI Distinguished Author Series event.“Islam is exceptional in a particular set of […]
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Hardeep Singh Puri, former ambassador of India and author of Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos, told a book launch event at IPI on October 25th that the stalemate over Syria and the Council’s consequent inaction was the panel’s “most serious failure.”He said there must now be a “Syrian peace process” […]
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Kristalina Georgieva, the Vice President of the European Commission, told an IPI Global Leader Series audience that while the world had been unprepared for the rapidity of modern change, she believed human and institutional versatility could meet the challenge of catching up.“I would argue that we can be reasonably positive because humans are incredibly adaptive […]
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