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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Jan Eliasson, the former United Nations Deputy Secretary-General and current Chair of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), told a November 29th IPI policy forum on “The Global State of Democracy” that belief in the value of democratic governance had lapsed, creating a “trust deficit” permitting political forces to arise that are polarizing democratic […]
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Edward Luce, chief Washington columnist for the Financial Times and author of The Retreat of Western Liberalism, gave a bracing talk on the fragility of liberal democracy in the 21st century to a large IPI Distinguished Author Series audience on November 8th.He noted that the world now has 25 fewer democracies than it did in […]
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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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