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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The relationship between security and development has been a growing concern this decade at the UN, highlighted by current events in the Middle East and figuring in comments from Secretaries-General, a summit meeting of the full UN membership and, just this month, a thematic discussion at the Security Council under the presidency of Brazil.
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“What this book is really about is the last phase of Western dominance in the Indian Ocean,” author Robert D. Kaplan told a Beyond the Headlines event audience at IPI featuring his book Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power.
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Jack Lang, special adviser to the Secretary-General on legal issues related to piracy, said, “We have to attack piracy at the head.” Mr. Lang asserted, “Each time that we know a mastermind, we have to apply sanctions.”
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Warren Hoge, IPI’s Vice President for External Relations, told an Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting on interfaith development, reconciliation and peacebuilding initiatives at the UN that “religion can be a powerful tool for peace if it is used in a constructive manner.”
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While the UN Security Council voted on January 19, 2011 to bolster the UN peacekeeping force in the tense West African country by providing an additional 2,000 peacekeepers, UN Secretary-General Special Advisers Francis Deng and Edward C. Luck said in a joint statement, “We remain gravely concerned about the possibility of genocide, crimes against humanity, […]
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