IPI together with the Permanent Missions of Finland and The Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN cohosted a policy forum on March 20th on the topic of “Specialized Police Teams in UN Peace Operations: A Survey of Progress and Challenges.”United Nations…
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“Violent conflict is on the rise,” said Jake Sherman, Director of IPI’s Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations, adding that the proliferation of small arms is enabling high levels of violence and criminality in post-conflict environments. Mr. Sherman was moderating an October 25th policy forum on the topic of conventional arms control in preventing conflicts […]
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Cyber weapons can inflict massive damage but are cheap, reliable, portable, easily hidden and hard to detect, New York Times National Security Correspondent David E. Sanger told a packed house at IPI the evening of October 18th. “Most importantly,” he said, “you can dial it up and dial it down, you can’t do that with a […]
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The implementing of United Nations counterterrorism (CT) measures can end up impeding principled humanitarian action and the provision of essential and life-saving medical care in armed conflict, and on October 17, IPI held a policy forum to discuss this dilemma and how to disentangle it.Central to the conversation was a newly launched IPI report, Safeguarding […]
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Philippe Lazzarini, the United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon, was recalling how Jan Eliasson, the former UN Deputy Secretary-General, described the country to him before he first went there on assignment 30 years ago.“It’s like a man hanging on the twelfth floor of a building, having a neighborhood looking […]
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While military and security responses to violence and its multifaceted consequences in the Sahel-Sahara region may be necessary, they have limits, and have, at times, produced adverse results. Alternative strategies that leverage the resilience capacities of local communities in the region remain understudied and undervalued. These alternatives were the focus of a recent meeting in […]
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