In advance of the Security Council’s open debate on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), IPI, together with the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the UN, co-hosted a policy forum on April 17th on the topic of “Preventing and Responding to…
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“We think the most urgent target is a cessation of armed violence.” Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Chairperson of the UN Human Rights Council Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria 2011-2012, told an IPI policy forum on March 21st. “I am not using the word ‘ceasefire.’ Ceasefire is when you have balance of armed forces. This […]
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“I like to believe there are no obstacles that we Libyans cannot overcome,” Abdurrahim El-Keib, interim Prime Minister of Libya told an IPI lunchtime audience on March 7, 2012. The prime minister, appointed in October 2011 by the provisional government, the Transitional National Council, spoke about last year’s struggle to overthrow Muammar Qaddafi’s regime, the […]
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“There are a lot of things we do which are not in the public eye, mostly behind the scenes,” Kwaku Aning, Deputy Director-General for Technical Cooperation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told an IPI policy forum on February 24, 2012.Dr. Aning spoke about the broad range of activities that the IAEA does that […]
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While the United Nations has extensive experience in helping to mediate the end to civil wars and implement peace agreements, its experience with non-civil-war transition crises is comparatively limited. This study examines the UN experience in five cases of unconstitutional changes in government between 2008-2011: Kenya, Mauritania, Guinea, Madagascar, and Kyrgyzstan.The study examines some of […]
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