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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“Everyone is scrambling around trying to do the possible,” said IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen while reflecting on how an unlikely peace agreement, the Oslo peace accords, was forged between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1993. Sometimes it’s easier to do the impossible, he said, “because you have the whole field to yourself.”Mr. […]
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“Stabilization denotes a level of robustness that not all member states are comfortable with,” Michael Grant, Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the UN, told the audience at a March 23rd IPI book launch. The book, UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era: Adapting to Stabilisation, Protection and New Threats (edited by Cedric de Coning, […]
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The fight for gender equality is a fight that should not be fought by women, but by men for women and with women,” Mohammad Naciri said at a March 16th IPI policy forum on the theme of men’s roles in preventing violence against women.“Men hold many of the positions of power across the globe, and […]
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Ayodele Odusola, UNDP’s Chief Economist for Africa, made this observation at an IPI policy forum, co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United Nations, on March 15th, 2017 on “Peace and the Gender Gap: Women’s Economic Empowerment in Fragile Communities.”“Africa loses $95 billion a year by not fully engaging women […]
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“For humanitarian actors, staying away is not an option,” said Els Debuf, commenting on the increasing risks facing humanitarian workers. “That is what humanitarian action is all about. We must take measures to enable humanitarian action.”Ms. Debuf, Head of Humanitarian Affairs at IPI, made the observation in introducing a March 1st meeting on “Strengthening Humanitarian […]
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