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The Ongoing Mass Atrocity Crimes Against the Uyghurs and How the UN Can Respond

IPI and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide co-hosted an event on “The Ongoing Mass Atrocity Crimes Against the Uyghurs and How the UN Can Respond” on May 1st. The event featured a film…
Unconstitutional Changes of Government in Peace Operations Settings: Multilateral Responses

IPI and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN cohosted a policy forum on April 10th on “Unconstitutional Changes of Government in Peace Operations Settings: Multilateral Responses.”Since 2020, there have been at least a dozen…
Building a Culture of Peace and Reconciliation through Art, Featuring Artist and Activist Nasreen Sheikh

IPI and Grace Farms Foundation cohosted the second Art for Peace series event featuring global human rights advocate and artist Nasreen Sheikh on March 26th.For the first time publicly, Nasreen Sheikh did a reading of her poem “A Table for Peace,” which…
Scenario-Based Planning and the Future of Peace Operations

Over the past eighty years, the evolution of UN peace operations has encountered several critical junctures. Now, UN peace operations have arguably reached another turning point with the decline in the number of UN-led multidimensional missions and a…
UN Peace Operations and Unconstitutional Changes of Government

There has been a significant increase in the number of unconstitutional changes of government (UCGs) since 2020. This presents a challenge for the United Nations, which has a presence in all countries that have recently experienced UCGs. In places like…

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Meeting Notes 04-14-2002by Ben Rawlence, rapporteur

Empowering Local Actors: the UN and Multi-Track Conflict Prevention

A report from the Conflict Prevention program covering the discussions on partnerships between the UN and civil society organizations in the cases of PRODERE in Central America, CIDP in Ukraine, and MARWOPNET in West Africa, from a December 10, 2001, policy workshop.Download
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Multilateral System
Meeting Notes 04-14-2002by Jake Sherman, rapporteur

The Economics of War

A conference report summarizing panel discussions held on September 10, 2001, and co-organized by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the International Peace Academy [now International Peace Institute] on the intersection between the economic dimensions of conflict and prospects for developing policy approaches to address the political economy of violent conflict.Download
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Policy Papers 03-14-2002Chetan Kumar and Sara J. Lodge, with Karen Resnick

Sustainable Peace as Democratization: The Experiences of Haiti and Guatemala

Drawing upon the experience of international attempts to build lasting peace in Haiti and Guatemala, and also upon IPI’s research and facilitation work in Haiti, the report offers some conclusions regarding the circumstances under which democratization and peacebuilding can become mutually reinforcing in fragile societies.
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Peacebuilding, State Fragility
Meeting Notes 03-14-2002by Comfort Ero, Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu and Augustine Toure, rapporteurs

Toward a Pax West Africana: Building Peace in a Troubled Sub-region

A report on the IPA-ECOWAS September 27-29, 2001, Abuja Seminar exploring the development of ECOWAS’s regional mechanism for security and development in West Africa.
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Peacebuilding

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The Ongoing Mass Atrocity Crimes Against the Uyghurs and How the UN Can Respond

Unconstitutional Changes of Government in Peace Operations Settings: Multilateral Responses

Building a Culture of Peace and Reconciliation through Art, Featuring Artist and Activist Nasreen Sheikh

Scenario-Based Planning and the Future of Peace Operations

UN Peace Operations and Unconstitutional Changes of Government

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Empowering Local Actors: the UN and Multi-Track Conflict Prevention

The Economics of War

Sustainable Peace as Democratization: The Experiences of Haiti and Guatemala

Toward a Pax West Africana: Building Peace in a Troubled Sub-region

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Linking Feminist Foreign Policy and the Care Economy in Latin America: Bringing the Local to the Multilateral

UN80 and the Reckoning Ahead: Can Structural Reform Deliver Real Change?

Coalitions for Ukraine: Moving Beyond Stop-gap Measures

A Human-Centered Approach to Peace in Ukraine: Interview with Nina Potarska

The World Is Changing Rapidly: Can the United Nations Restructure to Stay Relevant?

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