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    The International Peace Institute (IPI) is an independent, international not-for-profit think tank dedicated to managing risk and building resilience to promote peace, security, and sustainable development. To achieve its purpose, IPI employs a mix of policy research, strategic analysis, publishing, and convening. With staff from around the world and a broad range of academic fields, IPI has offices facing United Nations headquarters in New York and an office in Manama.

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region: The Americas

  • Issue Briefs 07-16-2019by Daniel Forti and Lesley Connolly

    Pivoting from Crisis to Development: Preparing for the Next Wave of UN Peace Operations Transitions

    UN peace operations are going through an accelerated period of reconfiguration and drawdown. Between June 2017 and March 2018, long-standing peacekeeping missions in Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia closed, while the mission in Haiti was reconfigured into a transitional peacekeeping mission. Looking ahead, the Security Council has mandated the closure of the peacekeeping mission in Darfur […]

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    Peace Operations Transitions
  • Issue Briefs 05-01-2019by Jimena Leiva Roesch

    Guatemala’s Achilles’ Heel: The 2030 Agenda and the Fight against Corruption

    In late 2015, momentum toward implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was steadily building in Guatemala. This momentum was driven by the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and protesters in the streets demanding action against corruption. Since 2017, however, a political standoff in Guatemala has started reversing these gains. A sustained […]

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    Sustainable Development
  • Speaker Events 05-24-2017

    Sajjan: Addressing Root Causes of Conflict Essential for Peacekeeping Success

    Commemorating International Peacekeeping Day at IPI on May 24th, Harjit Singh Sajjan, Canada’s Minister of National Defence, said, “We must understand the reality of conflict today.”The minister, a former peacekeeper in Afghanistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina, said, “It is Canada’s belief that addressing the root causes of conflict is a precondition of success.”In recent years, defense ministerials […]

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    Peacekeeping
  • Panel Discussions 02-28-2017

    Why the Colombia-FARC Peace Deal Worked and Could Help End Other Conflicts

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    Mediation, Peace Processes
  • Policy Papers 02-27-2017by Renata Segura and Delphine Mechoulan

    Made in Havana: How Colombia and the FARC Decided to End the War

    On November 24, 2016, the government of Colombia and the biggest guerrilla group in the country, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia–Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP), signed a final peace agreement. This accord put an end to the longest armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere and to long and convoluted peace talks.What elements of the process […]

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    Mediation, Peace Processes
  • The Potential of the Commonwealth: Securing Peace by Building Partnerships

    On Thursday, October 1st, IPI will host a Speaker Series event featuring Rt. Hon. Patricia Scotland, Dominica’s candidate for Commonwealth Secretary-General, that will explore the candidate’s vision for the future of the Commonwealth, as well as her assessment of the challenges and opportunities for the organization and its member states.Click here for the live webcast beginning at […]

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  • Issue Briefs 05-22-2014by Sandra Borda

    New Report Examines Role of the Union of South American Nations

    This publication examines the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), a principal South American regional organization that is part of a new breed of multilateral mechanisms reflecting the region’s growing autonomy vis-à-vis the United States.

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    Regional Organizations
  • Speaker Events 04-17-2014

    Stent: No More US-Russia Resets

    “After four resets and what’s happened in Ukraine, probably the United States should forget resets [with Russia] and focus on realism,” said Angela E. Stent, author of The Limits of Partnership: US-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century. She discussed her book at the International Peace Institute on April 17th.  Ms. Stent explained that since […]

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    Disarmament, Multilateral System
  • Speaker Events 06-10-2013

    Haass: America Overreaching Abroad, Underperforming at Home

    “I have a strong sense that the United States, over the last decade or so, has somewhat lost its way in the world,” said Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the new book Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America’s House in Order.Speaking to an IPI […]

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    Governance
  • Books 05-13-2013by William Stanley

    Enabling Peace in Guatemala: The Story of MINUGUA

    This book chronicles the critical role played by the United Nations in the immediate aftermath of the Guatemalan civil war, which ended in 1996 after more than thirty years of fighting and more than 200,000 lives lost.

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    Peace Processes, Peacebuilding, Peacekeeping
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