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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What is the current state of feminist leadership and progress advancing gender equality at the United Nations? The election of a new Secretary-General in 2016 opened an avenue for the UN to implement an agenda that puts gender equality and women’s rights at the heart of everything it does. However, even after two decades of […]
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On March 13th, IPI and Peace is Loud co-hosted a policy forum on women’s participation in peace negotiations and peacekeeping, featuring a screening of two scenes from the new PBS documentary film series Women, War and Peace II. Filmmakers and prominent women peacemakers took part in a discussion on the two films.In welcoming remarks, Madeleine […]
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Some 18 months after 700,000 people fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state, camps in neighboring Bangladesh are now hosting more than one million refugees. Though Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in November 2017 to a procedural framework for repatriation of these refugees—most of them Rohingyas from Rakhine state—the increased instability there has not allowed for safe, dignified, and […]
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Just weeks after the signing of a new peace agreement between the government of the Central African Republic (CAR) and 14 armed groups, the top United Nations official there came to IPI on February 26th and spoke of the diplomatic accomplishment and the continuing challenges of consolidating it.“It is not often that the Central African […]
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“Organizations’ mandates thrive or fail on the basis of the quality of leadership,” said Fabrizio Hochschild, Assistant United Nations Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination. “The allocation of resources are things we have very little control of, but one thing we do have control over is how we select, empower, and support our leaders…it’s worth every possible […]
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