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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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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Kristalina Georgieva, the Vice President of the European Commission, told an IPI Global Leader Series audience that while the world had been unprepared for the rapidity of modern change, she believed human and institutional versatility could meet the challenge of catching up.“I would argue that we can be reasonably positive because humans are incredibly adaptive […]
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With increasing attention being paid to the contest for who will become the next UN secretary-general, a September 22nd event co-sponsored by IPI and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs focused instead on what that person should do once he or she is in the job.The event was the annual Trygve Lie Symposium, and it […]
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