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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 more than twenty countries and a broad range of academic fields, IPI has offices facing United Nations headquarters in New York and offices in Vienna and Manama.

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  • Policy Papers 01-21-2020by Arthur Boutellis and Michael Beary

    Sharing the Burden: Lessons from the European Return to Multidimensional Peacekeeping

    Since 2013, after years of near absence from the continent, a number of European countries, along with Canada, have again deployed to UN peacekeeping missions in Africa. The European presence in UN peacekeeping in Africa is now nearly at its largest since the mid-1990s. These countries provide much-needed high-end capabilities, as well as political and […]

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    Multilateral System, Peacekeeping, UN System
  • Conferences 06-05-2018

    IPI Vienna Seminar Examines European Contribution to UN Peacekeeping

    The 48th annual Vienna Seminar took place on June 5, 2018, with the focus, “European Contributions to United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward.” In the face of ongoing geopolitical shifts and national political pressures, the seminar examined the prospects of sustainable European participation in current and future UN peace operations as […]

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    Peacekeeping
  • Issue Briefs 09-15-2017By Jimena Leiva Roesch and Cheryl He

    A Greek Recipe for Overcoming Crises: Can the SDGs Be Used as Ingredients?

    Since plunging into a debt crisis in 2009, Greece has undergone a deep economic recession and severe reductions in social services. Several years later, it was hit by a second crisis as millions of refugees and migrants began arriving on Greece’s shores. But focusing only on debt relief and refugees misses a powerful story of […]

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    Sustainable Development
  • Conferences 09-05-2017

    IPI Salzburg Forum: Mapping the Shifting Landscape of Today’s Geopolitics

    From September 3–5, 2017, IPI convened its annual Salzburg Forum on the theme “Mapping the New Geopolitics, Prisoners of Geography or Lords of the Land?”The meeting brought together former prime ministers and foreign ministers, officials from the United Nations and regional organizations, diplomats, journalists, academics, experts on the Middle East and Europe, and representatives of […]

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    Multilateral System, Regional Organizations, UN System
  • Policy Papers 04-25-2017by Liska Wittenberg

    Managing Mixed Migration: The Central Mediterranean Route to Europe

    Every summer since 2014 has seen an increase in the number of refugees and migrants risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy and Malta. This increase in migration is having a wide-ranging impact on countries of origin, transit, and destination, creating new and complex challenges for governments, humanitarian agencies, the European Union, […]

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    Displacement and Migration
  • Conferences 10-11-2016

    Gorbachev: “Worst Thing” Collapse of Trust Between Major Powers

    At an IPI seminar in Reykjavik, Iceland yesterday, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said via video, “I would like to emphasize something, with all the emotions I have in my soul: the worst thing that has happened over the past few years is the collapse of trust in relations between the major powers, which, according […]

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    Disarmament
  • Panel Discussions 09-14-2016

    Georgia: “An Island of Stability“ in a Turbulent Region

    David Bakradze, Georgia’s State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, described his country as “an island of stability in a turbulent region,” to an audience at IPI Vienna, September 13th.Dennis Sammut, Director of LINKS, provided some historical context to Georgia’s rise. Georgia was the fourth Soviet republic to organize a referendum on independence in the […]

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  • Speaker Events 06-15-2016

    Grigas: Putin Uses “Compatriot Protection” Plan to Restore Russia’s Clout

    Agnia Grigas, author of Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire, outlined to an IPI audience a strategy that she said Russia has adopted to pursue its territorial ambitions and try to regain the stature it lost with the collapse of the Soviet empire.The strategy, which she labeled “compatriot protection,” posits that Moscow has the right, […]

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  • Speaker Events 05-17-2016

    Zannier: Europe Still Needs Post Cold War Reconciliation

    Lamberto Zannier, the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co‑operation in Europe (OSCE), discussed the organization’s perspective on “Security Challenges in Europe,” at an IPI meeting, May 17, 2016.With a membership of 57 countries and based in Vienna, the OSCE is the largest intergovernmental body in the world. Though nominally a security organization, […]

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    Regional Organizations
  • Speaker Events 05-03-2016

    Estonia PM: Country Saves 2% of GDP by Going Digital

    Taavi Rõivas, Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia, explained the extraordinary gains the digital landscape is bringing to Estonia to an IPI audience, May 3, 2016.“Estonia saves two percent of GDP by signing things digitally,” he said. “Imagine if it could go global.”Since regaining its independence in 1991, Estonia has achieved significant economic growth. […]

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    Governance, Technology
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    January 22, 2021 by Darya Dolzikova
    The degree to which sanctions-lifting translates to economic relief depends in no small part on the willingness of the private sector to engage with the Iranian market.
    Analysis, iran, middle east, sanctions
  • Local Mediation and UN Peace Operations

    January 21, 2021 by Arthur Boutellis, Delphine Mechoulan, Marie-Joëlle Zahar
    Local mediation efforts can also help manage and resolve conflicts more durably and support the implementation of peace agreements.
    Analysis, peacebuilding, peacekeeping
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    January 19, 2021 by Katharina P. Coleman
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  • Safeguarding Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    December 10, 2020 by Joshua Wimpey, Markus Goldstein, Paula Gonzalez Martinez, Sreelakshmi Papineni
    COVID-19 has put all progress towards women’s empowerment made so far at risk.
    Analysis, coronavirus, women peace and security
  • Renewed Scrutiny of Citizenship Laws in the Gulf in COVID-19 Era

    December 8, 2020 by Dalya Al Alawi
    While the pandemic continues its march through the region, movements to change discriminatory citizenship laws have gained strength.
    Analysis, coronavirus, middle east
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    December 3, 2020 by Stephanie Liechtenstein

    The ceasefire deal confirmed geopolitical realities and further strengthened Russian influence in the…

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  • Empowering “We the Peoples” in the UN’s 75th Year

    December 2, 2020 by Michaela Millender, Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
    The UN75 report produced ten key findings that highlighted what respondents felt were both immediate and long-term priorities.
    Analysis, united nations

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