IPI and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations cohosted a policy forum on March 13th on “The Protection of Civilians in African-led and UN-led Peace Operations.”The purpose of this event was to discuss how the…
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Børge Brende, Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, told an IPI audience of a plan to ensure that “new fragile states don’t turn into weaker failed states,” and he said it amounted to “a new kind of Marshall Plan for prevention.”As such, he said, expects prevention to be the next secretary-general’s “first and foremost” priority.Brende’s remarks […]
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Mogens Lykketoft, President of the United Nations General Assembly, told an IPI meeting assessing the results of 2015’s three major UN reviews that the greatest hope of this process was that the UN, “in peace and security, will be much more relevant for the members than it has been in recent years.”The reviews—on peace operations, […]
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Taavi Rõivas, Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia, explained the extraordinary gains the digital landscape is bringing to Estonia to an IPI audience, May 3, 2016.“Estonia saves two percent of GDP by signing things digitally,” he said. “Imagine if it could go global.”Since regaining its independence in 1991, Estonia has achieved significant economic growth. […]
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Astrid Thors, Organization for Security and Co operation in Europe (OSCE) High Commissioner on National Minorities, spoke about security challenges for the OSCE region at an April 29, 2016 meeting, “Prevention in Practice.”The chief European representative for national minorities, Thors said her office was tested by the large migrant crisis in Europe. “Migration flows bring […]
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Tarek Osman, author of a new book, Islamism: What It Means for the Middle East and the World, emphasized that militant Islamism is not an entirely new phenomenon, but the Islamic State (ISIS)’s particular brand of it is.Militant Islamism dates back at least half a century, he said, but what has changed in the past […]
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