On October 8th, IPI in partnership with the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the UN, cohosted a special preview screening of THE VETO, a short documentary film, followed by a panel discussion.For close to eighty years, the UN…
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Ending a two-decade-long armed insurgency, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord was signed in December 1997 by the government of Bangladesh and the PCJSS, the political representative of the Hill people. However, because of ambiguities within the accord and the failure to implement many of its crucial elements, the situation in the CHT today is […]
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This report presents some of the views and themes discussed at the IPA [now IPI] Civil Society Dialogue on “Civil Society Perspectives from the Mano River Union (MRU),” held in New York on June 14, 2002.The meeting provided a platform for civil society leaders from the three Mano River Union countries (Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra […]
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Globalization, suggest the authors of this collection, is creating new opportunities—some legal, some illicit—for armed factions to pursue their agendas in civil war.Within this context, they analyze the key dynamics of war economies and the challenges posed for conflict resolution and sustainable peace. Thematic chapters consider key issues in the political economy of internal wars, […]
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The International Peace Institute, in collaboration with and thanks to generous support from the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, convened a high-level retreat on May 16-17 entitled From Promise to Practice: Revitalizing the General Assembly for the New Millennium.The retreat brought together, in an informal setting, approximately twenty-five permanent representatives and a […]
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