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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Nickolay Mladenov, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO), detailed a decade of deteriorating conditions in Gaza, noting that it had “de-developed” over the past ten years of governance under Hamas and that a new agreement promising a reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah had stalled. “Hope was created with the […]
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Phillippe Lazzarini, the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, told a December 1st meeting on “Addressing the Humanitarian Situation in Lebanon” that though the country had proved remarkably resilient while hosting 1.5 million refugees from Syria—the highest number of refugees per capita in the world—pressure on the 5.9 million Lebanese themselves was rising.“We […]
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Edward Luce, chief Washington columnist for the Financial Times and author of The Retreat of Western Liberalism, gave a bracing talk on the fragility of liberal democracy in the 21st century to a large IPI Distinguished Author Series audience on November 8th.He noted that the world now has 25 fewer democracies than it did in […]
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Erkki Tuomioja, the former Foreign Minister of Finland and founder and president of the International Network of Historians Without Borders (HWB), came to IPI on November 7th to discuss the importance of historical knowledge in recognizing elements of peace and resilience within societies in conflict.He said that the speaker at the founding meeting of HWB […]
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Miroslav Lajčák, President of the UN General Assembly, called upon leaders in the MENA region to join the body’s mission of “delivering for the people.”Mr. Lajčák spoke on November 2, 2017, to an audience of representatives of government, civil society, media, academia, culture, diplomacy, youth, and the private sector at IPI-MENA in Manama.Referring to issues […]
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