In collaboration with the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation and the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the UN, IPI convened a hybrid policy forum on the margins of the UN Security Council’s Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) on October 25th. The…
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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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On November 6th, Marie-Joëlle Zahar, IPI Senior Fellow, and Delphine Mechoulan, IPI Policy Analyst, presented the main findings of their report “Peace by Pieces? Local Mediation Initiatives and Sustainable Peace in the Central African Republic.”The report, which by can be found here, describes and analyzes the impact of local mediation activities in the Central African […]
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On October 17th, IPI co-hosted a policy forum with Peace Direct to explore how the United Nations and the international community can better support local peacebuilders in their work of sustaining peace.Lesley Connolly, IPI Policy Analyst and moderator for the event, opened the discussion with a clear statement of its purpose. “We believe local peacebuilders […]
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On October 5th, IPI hosted a policy forum to discuss the challenges and recommendations made in the new IPI report “People Before Process: Humanizing the Human Resources System for UN Peace Operations.”The author of the report, IPI Post-Doctoral Fellow Namie Di Razza, said her interviewing for the 54-page policy paper showed that human resources in […]
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IPI and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) of Switzerland co-sponsored a policy forum on September 22, 2017 to share and discuss the conclusions and recommendations of the second regional conversation on “Investing in Peace and Prevention in the Sahel-Sahara” held in N’Djamena, Chad four months ago.That meeting, which addressed the nature of violent […]
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