The UN Secretary General’s New Agenda for Peace places a strong emphasis on national action to prevent conflict and achieve sustainable development. As a result, national parliaments have an important role to play in the pursuit of a strengthened system…
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IPI’s Senior Policy Analyst, Lesley Connolly, discussed the role of local actors in advancing sustaining peace in an interview conducted at the Fri Ent Peacebuilding Forum, held in Berlin from June 13th to June 15th, 2018.Ms. Connolly noted that in order to advance sustaining peace in practice, there is a need to overcome the barriers […]
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Youssef Mahmoud, IPI Senior Adviser, spoke at a high level seminar on sustaining peace with particular focus on African women mediators. The event was convened by the African Union Commission, Belgium, and the International Peace Institute on April 25, 2018.Reflecting on mediation processes through a sustaining peace lens, Mr. Mahmoud questioned the assumptions informing the […]
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The International Peace Institute (IPI) is pleased to announce the Honorable Kevin Rudd has been elected unanimously by IPI’s board of directors as the board’s next chair, effective June 01, 2018. Mr. Rudd was Vice Chair of IPI’s board since June 2014.Mr. Rudd succeeds Professor Michael Doyle, Director of the Columbia Global Policy Initiative at […]
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In the wake of the Secretary-General’s recent report on Sustaining Peace, Sven Mikser, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Estonia was interviewed by the International Peace Institute on Estonia’s sustaining peace agenda and suggestions for implementing recommendations from the report.Asked what sustaining peace means for Estonia, Mikser articulated that to prevent conflict, “it’s crucial to […]
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