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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“The UN has strongly endorsed entrepreneurship as an important means of accelerating the SDGs,” IPI Senior Adviser Youssef Mahmoud declared, moderating a July 16th discussion at IPI on the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in the realization of the social and economic gains envisioned by the Sustainable Development Goals. “Entrepreneurship plays an important role in […]
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The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offers a framework to strengthen and transform preventative action to build peaceful, just, and inclusive societies. A July 12th expert-level event, co-organized with Saferworld, was held at IPI on the margins of the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF) to surface observations from those working to put […]
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“How do we ensure that this transformative new technology delivers us the future we want rather than a future we never signed up for?” asked James Cockayne, Director of UNU’s Centre for Policy Research, introducing an all-day policy seminar on Governing Artificial Intelligence (AI) on June 22nd at IPI.He cited widespread concern over whether developers will […]
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To meet the challenging task of putting the sustaining peace agenda into operation, there is still limited understanding of how to measure the impact of preventative activities and sustain peace. However, as the United Nations works to advance the Secretary-General’s peacebuilding and sustaining peace agenda, there is a need to identify and analyze innovations in […]
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“Efforts to sustain peace must be locally-led, nationally owned, regionally anchored, and internationally supported,” said Yasuhisa Kawamura, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, at a June 12th IPI event. “It is indispensable to include all relevant actors in peacebuilding and sustaining peace.”His statement was a reflection of the shifting dialogue on the […]
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