On October 14th, IPI President Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein delivered the Peace Message at the Opening Ceremony of the 11th annual Geneva Peace Week at the Maison de la Paix in Geneva, Switzerland. This year’s theme was “What is Peace?” Speakers and…
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The risk of confrontation in the South China Sea (SCS) is increasing as a result of recent maritime encounters between China and Vietnam. During two incidents on May 26th and June 9th, Vietnamese oil exploration vessels conducting seismic surveys were harassed by Chinese ships. This has brought to a head the long-standing territorial dispute over […]
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In the last few months, the humanitarian situation in the entire Horn of Africa region has been steadily deteriorating owing to a drought caused by the climatic phenomenon La Niña. The situation is all the more worrying in Somalia where a decades-long conflict has driven some 250,000 Somalis out of their homes since May in […]
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Our times are being moved by mega-trends. These trends are changing our environment and our lives at a faster pace than at any time before in human history.
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IPI released today a new poll on public attitudes in Egypt, which finds that half the population now thinks the country is headed in the right direction, sharply down from 82% in March.
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Jason Stearns, journalist and author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: the Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, spoke at IPI on May 17, 2011, on his experiences in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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