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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The links between health and political stability were recognized by the United Nations High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, which named the overwhelming disease burden in developing countries in the context of dysfunctional public health systems one of the six major threats to global security (High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change 2004). […]
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The International Peace Institute launched its most recent book, Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Assessing “Whole of Government” Approaches to Fragile States, by Stewart Patrick and Kaysie Brown.Fragile states represent both the hard core of today’s global development challenge and a growing source of threats to international security. As such, integrated approaches are […]
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The focus of this paper is on conflicts within states.These range from the full scale armed conflict of a civil war (between two “states within states”), through relatively isolated and contained low intensity insurrection against the state, to regular bouts of communal violence in a “well functioning” state.This paper asks how poverty and inequality causally […]
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The rapid growth of population is perhaps the major demographic force challenging human well-being, development, the environment, and international relations and security.It is widely acknowledged that slower population growth provides countries with more time to adjust to future population increases. This in turn increases the ability and prospects of those countries to improve the quality […]
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