IPI in partnership with Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, cohosted a policy forum on “National Action Plans for National Challenges: Addressing Environmental Crises through the WPS Agenda” on October 24th.The women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda has…
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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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Marking the one-year anniversary of the global study on the implementation of the landmark Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, IPI held a policy forum on October 26th to consider the influence of women’s participation in peace processes—from negotiations to peace agreements, power-sharing arrangements, and throughout political transitions.Panelists discussed the challenges, opportunities, […]
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On the evening of October 25th, IPI screened a new documentary film called The Destruction of Memory, which chronicles the willful acts of destruction and looting of symbols of past civilizations by ISIS fighters and efforts being made to bring such acts under the purview of international humanitarian and human rights law. Afterwards, an expert […]
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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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