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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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News, Events, Publications about Disarmament

  • Policy Papers 03-27-2017

    ICM Policy Paper: Weapons of Mass Destruction

    While the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) may seem antiquated and unlikely to materialize, the mere existence of WMD remains one of the paramount threats to mankind. Nuclear weapons present not only the biggest existential threat, but also the biggest gap in the multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation architecture. In this context, on March […]

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    Disarmament, Multilateral System
  • Conferences 10-12-2016

    Recapturing the Spirit of Reykjavik Summit

    On October 11-12th, IPI held an event in Reykjavik to discuss the legacy of the historic meeting between the President of the United States Ronald Reagan and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev of exactly thirty years earlier, and to see if and how the “spirit of Reykjavik” […]

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    Disarmament
  • 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
  • Speaker Events 04-22-2015

    Evans: Past Nuclear Treaty Optimism Diminishing 5 Years Later

    Speaking on the eve of the 2015 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at the United Nations, former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans said the global optimism that had characterized the last review five years ago had largely disappeared, leaving in its wake widespread pessimism over the prospects for a nuclear-free world.Mr. Evans, speaking at an […]

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    Disarmament
  • Speaker Events 12-15-2014

    Fathi: Iran and the Struggle Between Hardliners and Reformers

    Discussing her new book The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran at IPI on December 15th, author Nazila Fathi said that 35 years after the revolution, Iran is divided between hardliners and a large moderate middle class, but admitted that it is still unclear which of the two sides will […]

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    Disarmament, Governance, Mediation, Sanctions, State-Society Relations, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • 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
  • Panel Discussions 06-07-2013

    Global Governance and the State of Nuclear Weapons

    The nuclear status quo is not sustainable— this was one of the main conclusions from a June 7th IPI roundtable discussion on the recently published report entitled “Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play,” edited by Ramesh Thakur and Gareth Evans.Discussants at the event contended that regulating and containing the world’s supply of nuclear weapons continues […]

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    Disarmament
  • Policy Papers 03-08-2013by 
Eduardo Zachary Albrecht

    North Korea & the UN Security Council: Action, Reaction, Trust, and Mistrust

    North Korea’s underground nuclear test on February 12, 2013, was the latest in a series of provocations that form part of a slow-motion proliferation strategy. As the UN Security Council responded with sanctions in early March, the world body again contributed to a pattern of action, reaction, trust, and mistrust with the recalcitrant state.

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    Disarmament, Sanctions
  • Panel Discussions 11-29-2012

    Learning Lessons About Peacebuilding

    Strategic coordination and flexible funding of security-sector reform (SSR); disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR); and administrative and social services can help prevent relapses into armed conflict. This was the main conclusion of a roundtable discussion held at IPI and co-organized with the UN Peacebuilding Support Office on November 29, 2012. Independent experts presented three thematic […]

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    Disarmament, Peacebuilding
  • Speaker Events 06-27-2012

    IAEA’s Mrabit: “Better to Prevent Than Mitigate”

    “Our cooperation approach with states is global and systematic; together with states we do not want to wait until a disaster occurs,” Khammar Mrabit, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Office of Nuclear Security, told an IPI lunchtime forum on June 27, 2012. “That is why, with states receiving IAEA assistance, we have […]

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    Disarmament, Energy
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