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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A year after the High-Level Review of the implementation of the landmark Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, an IPI meeting took up the subject of National Action Plans (NAPs) and how they help turn policy into reality.Andrea Ó Súilleabháin, IPI Senior Policy Analyst, spoke to the dichotomy between policy as it […]
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Panelists at an IPI policy forum on “Preventing Mass Atrocities in an Era of Global Transition” agreed on the need to define a prevention agenda, which would reorient the work of the United Nations away from crisis response. However, they said, to implement such an agenda, the case for prevention will need to be made […]
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Hilde Johnson, the former United Nations mission head in South Sudan and author of a new book on the country’s descent into violence since its founding in 2011, came to IPI on October 5 to describe in harrowing detail the circumstances of the fledging state’s convulsive first five years and to lay responsibility on the […]
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This was a broad conclusion of a group of regional specialists speaking in a panel discussion at IPI on September 27th on investing in peace and preventing violent extremism in West Africa and the Sahel. The forum was a follow-up to a meeting on the same subject in June in Dakar.The panelists agreed as a […]
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“The private sector is not only a donor, it’s also an actor,” declared Paloma Durán, Director of the Sustainable Development Goals Fund. “We need to reflect and to see how to engage the private sector as an actor in our processes, meaning how to engage the private sector in the core design of programs, the […]
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