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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 Humanitarian Affairs

  • Issue Briefs 06-24-2019by Alice Debarre

    Safeguarding Humanitarian Action in Sanctions Regimes

    There are currently fourteen UN sanctions regimes, which member states are legally required to implement. Many of these are implemented in the context of armed conflict, where international humanitarian law outlines obligations to protect the provision of and access to principled humanitarian action. But despite efforts to make sanctions regimes more targeted, they continue to […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, UN Security Council
  • Speaker Events 06-21-2019

    On Eve of Pledging Conference, UNRWA Head Says Neutrality Essential for Doing Humanitarian Work

    The subject of the June 21st Speaker Series event at IPI was “The Risks of Politicizing Humanitarian Action: The UNRWA Perspective,” and the speaker, Pierre Krähenbühl, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), focused his comments on what he said was the most misunderstood of […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs
  • Panel Discussions 05-24-2019

    Preventing Attacks on Healthcare and Humanitarian Workers in Armed Conflict

    The growing number of attacks on humanitarian workers and the provision of health care in armed conflict has become what Christoph Heusgen, the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, called “a weapon of warfare. The situation is very dire,” he told an IPI audience. “We must not accept that this becomes the new […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs
  • Policy Papers 04-26-2019by Albert Trithart

    Stuck in Crisis: The Humanitarian Response to Sudan’s Health Emergency

    Following decades of war, economic decline, and underinvestment, Sudan’s healthcare system entered a new phase of crisis in 2019 as peaceful protests led to the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir. Among those leading these protests were doctors and other medical personnel fed up with poor working conditions and medicine shortages. This speaks to the degraded […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs
  • Speaker Events 03-01-2019

    Bangladesh FM: Conflict Is Not Between Myanmar and Bangladesh, But Between Myanmar and Its Own Population

    Some 18 months after 700,000 people fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state, camps in neighboring Bangladesh are now hosting more than one million refugees. Though Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in November 2017 to a procedural framework for repatriation of these refugees—most of them Rohingyas from Rakhine state—the increased instability there has not allowed for safe, dignified, and […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs
  • Issue Briefs 02-28-2019by Alice Debarre and Namie Di Razza

    Pursuing Coordination and Integration for the Protection of Civilians

    In recent years, the UN and its member states have promoted comprehensive approaches and integrated structures and processes to improve coherence and consistency between political peacekeeping, humanitarian, human rights, and development efforts undertaken by the UN and its partners. For POC specifically, coordination between the military, police, and civilian components of peace operations; between peace […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Protection of Civilians
  • Policy Papers 02-20-2019by Alice Debarre

    Delivering Healthcare amid Crisis: The Humanitarian Response in Myanmar

    Myanmar simultaneously faces multiple armed conflicts and crises, each with its own challenges. In Rakhine state, the government’s persecution of the Rohingya people has led to massive displacement, as have decades of armed conflict in Kachin and northern Shan states. Combined with chronic underdevelopment, these humanitarian crises have left people without access to adequate healthcare, […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs
  • Issue Briefs 01-31-2019by Alice Debarre

    Providing Healthcare in Armed Conflict: The Case of Mali

    Due to ongoing conflict and insecurity in northern Mali, 1.8 million people require humanitarian health assistance, and 2.5 million are considered food insecure. Given the level of need, Mali’s healthcare system is ill-equipped to respond, and humanitarian health actors play an important role filling the gaps.This issue brief maps the challenges these health actors face […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs
  • Issue Briefs 01-31-2019by Alice Debarre

    Providing Healthcare in Armed Conflict: The Case of Nigeria

    The humanitarian situation in Nigeria’s northeast is deteriorating, with more than 5 million people in need of healthcare and over 800,000 out of the reach of humanitarian actors. Given this level of need and the poor state of the healthcare system in northeastern Nigeria, humanitarian and other nongovernmental health actors play an important role.This issue […]

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    Health, Humanitarian Affairs
  • Comment & Analysis 12-21-2018

    Protecting Medical Care in Armed Conflict—from Policy to Practice

    International humanitarian actors face challenges to providing medical care in armed conflict. What does the legal framework for medical care in armed conflict look like? And what are the challenges it faces?On December 21, 2018, International Peace Institute (IPI) Policy Analyst Alice Debarre briefed the United Nations Security Council Open Arria Meeting on “Protecting Medical […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs
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