On April 22, 2015, IPI’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) office hosted Ambassador Mokhtar Lamani, a former UN representative in Syria, former Arab League official, and the former permanent observer of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation at the UN, who discussed the origins and evolution of extremist organizations across the Middle East.At the event—attended by government officials, […]
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For years, combating sexual violence in conflict has been a key element of UN Security Council mandates, but dealing with terrorist groups like the Islamic State and Boko Haram is challenging the way the Council responds to sexual violence perpetrated by non-state actors.This was the topic discussed at an April 14th event on “Violent Extremist […]
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Amin Awad, the director of the Middle East and North Africa Bureau of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), says the refugee crisis across Syria and Iraq has reached unprecedented levels and warns that in the absence of a political solution, the international community should increase the funding of humanitarian efforts in the region.Mr. […]
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When 16-year-old Abdelaziz from Bahrain joined the group known today as the Islamic State, it was because he felt “imprisoned” and “tied up” in his life at home and longed to be free, living the honorable life of his “brothers” fighting in Syria. After deceiving his parents, Abdelaziz managed to get into Syria and joined […]
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The inaugural meeting of IPI’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Advisory Council was held on Thursday, April 2nd, 2015. Sixteen members of the diplomatic and business communities, religious leaders from among Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths, among others, as well as civil society members, were in attendance for the meeting. Advisory Council members and […]
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Finding the way to peace in the Middle East continues to be one of the great challenges of international diplomacy. The Search for Peace in the Arab-Israeli Conflict is a comprehensive volume of all relevant documents on the Arab-Israeli conflict over the past century.Amid a growing documentary literature on this topic, this book is unique […]
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“I think ‘Twilight Zone’ is an apt term to describe what is happening” between Arabs and Israelis, said IPI Vice President Hardeep Singh Puri in his opening remarks as moderator of a January 24th panel at the Jaipur Literature Festival on the topic. “We have a situation when the negotiating process, I think, suffered a […]
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On February 18, 2015, IPI’s MENA office hosted a Inter-Religious Alliance meeting with religious leaders and clerics from five continents. Representing their respective religious communities, the participants made statements in support of a stronger and more sustainable inter-religious alliance.The leaders welcomed IPI’s initiative and pledged further cooperation to strengthen a joint call for peace in […]
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On February 2-3, 2015 the International Peace Institute (IPI) held in Cairo, Egypt the concluding seminar in its series of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of World War I. Under the rubric, “Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future: The Middle East 1914-2014 and Beyond”, the meeting aimed to identify guideposts from history for […]
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As two rival parliaments and administrations in Tripoli and Tobruk currently vie for control of the government in Libya, a new UN-brokered initiative is attempting to renew a national dialogue process.How and why did the previous UN mediation effort to support the Libyan-devised political transition lose legitimacy, with Libya now on the brink of civil […]
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