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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In recent years, United Nations peace operations have increasingly begun addressing environmental challenges related to their own impact and the conditions in which they operate. Missions, particularly large deployments in arid, land-locked countries, have considerable resource requirements and can cause significant, if unintended, environmental damage to countries the UN is seeking to assist.To discuss this […]
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An April 12th policy forum, co-hosted by the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and Peace Direct, at IPI examined the role of nonviolent strategies in advancing long-term peace, and how these approaches can be put into complementary practice to advance the sustaining peace agenda.Introducing the subject, Maria J. Stephan, Director of the Program on […]
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A panel of UN officials, diplomats, and experts from civil society took up the topical subject of how to combat sexual harassment at the United Nations at a March 28th IPI policy forum, emphasizing that any approach must acknowledge and address systemic gender inequality, and must be victim-centered. Many of the speakers noted the timeliness […]
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In 2016, both the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council passed resolutions on “sustaining peace,” which they defined as a goal and a process to build a common vision of a society. Rather than focus efforts on conflict resolution, the sustaining peace agenda centers on conflict prevention by studying what qualities make a society […]
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Cyberspace has enabled human interaction and helped advance human development, but it has at the same time become a “global, political and military battleground,” said Jüri Luik, the Defense Minister of Estonia, addressing a March 28th IPI forum on European Security in the 21st Century.Estonia gained firsthand knowledge of that fact earlier than other countries […]
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