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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IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen tells Al Jazeera on October 7, 2015, that the way forward in the Middle East is through continued negotiation and building upon the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, as provided for in the Oslo Accords.
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Despite emerging from the ashes of a world war, the forbearers of the United Nations “managed to push through the cynicism barrier, and 70 years later, so must we,” Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia and Chair of IPI’s Independent Commission on Multilateralism (ICM). Mr Rudd said this in a statement he delivered to […]
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The seventh annual African Junior Professionals Fellows program from July 6-30 2015 provided a further opportunity to deepen the relationship between the emerging generation of young African leaders and the United Nations. Ten graduate students from five African countries – Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya – met with a broad cross section of UN […]
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On September 9, at the conclusion of the IPI Salzburg Forum on “The Rule of Law and the Laws of War,” a declaration was issued that called for action on the refugee crisis. Moved and concerned by the massive human tragedy of millions of refugees fleeing from war and persecution, participants at the IPI seminar […]
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“These weapons are here to enable the self-defense and secure the territorial integrity of the lake’s inhabitants–a goose and three ducks,” artist Ray Bartkus announced to the participants of the 2015 IPI Salzburg Forum entitled “The Rule of Law and the Laws of War.” “We artists have nothing to do with it and deny all […]
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