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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 Multilateral System

  • Panel Discussions 11-03-2022

    The Growing Threat to Rules-Based International Order and Possible Remedies

    In partnership with the Munich Security Conference, IPI cohosted an event on November 3rd on the growing threat to the rules-based international order and possible remedies. Taking Germany’s proclaimed Zeitenwende as the starting point, the discussion explored how states are responding to current global crises, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and how such responses may […]

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    Multilateral System
  • Policy Papers 09-16-2022

    Multilateralism Index: Pilot Report

    In the past several years, there has been a much-discussed rise in strain on multilateralism. However, there have been few efforts to quantifiably assess the state of the multilateral system. This Multilateralism Index (MI) report is the first known attempt to do so. It focuses on developments in the system over the past decade, providing […]

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    Multilateral System
  • Speaker Events 06-30-2021

    Reimagining Multilateralism Today: Strengthening Preparedness and Response to Address Global Crises

    On June 30th, IPI in partnership with The Elders, cohosted a virtual interactive discussion on “Reimagining Multilateralism Today: Strengthening Preparedness and Response to Address Global Crises.”The transnational nature of the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for a reinvigoration of multilateral cooperation now more than ever. In the wake of the United Nations’ 75th anniversary, […]

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    Multilateral System
  • Panel Discussions 09-18-2020

    UN 75: The Future We Want, The UN We Need

    On September 18th, IPI, in partnership with UN75, The Group of Women Leaders, and the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, convened a virtual event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations with a diverse group of women leaders in a dynamic conversation on priorities and solutions for “recovering better” from the […]

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    Multilateral System, UN System
  • News 07-15-2020

    Multilateralism Under Fire: A Conversation with Adam Lupel and Peter Yeo

    “What’s true is that a world organized by multilateral cooperation is a more just world order based upon sovereign equality of states, the rule of law, the practice of diplomacy, and not ‘might makes right’ in which a strong country can simply take territory from another country, as we saw for all of human history, […]

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    Multilateral System
  • 06-26-2020

    International Leaders Call for Strengthening Multilateral Responses to the Pandemic

    Addressing government representatives, UN officials, heads of global organizations, and academics, IPI MENA Director Nejib Friji, and key international leaders and personalities, called for greater unity across the multilateralism system in promoting a global “culture of peace” to build societies that are resilient in the wake of crises and pandemics.During a June 26th webinar on […]

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    Multilateral System
  • Speaker Events 04-24-2020

    UN General Assembly President: “Multilateralism Is Strengthening, Not Fraying During the Pandemic”

    The Honorable Kevin Rudd AC, 26th Prime Minister of Australia, President of the Asia Society Policy Institute, and Chair of IPI’s Board of Directors and H.E. Mr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President of the 74th Session of the UN General AssemblyIn an IPI virtual event on April 24th, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the President of the 74th Session of […]

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    Multilateral System
  • Meeting Notes 02-06-2020

    Priorities for the 2021 Peacekeeping Ministerial: Reflections from an Expert Roundtable

    The Republic of Korea will host the next UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference in April 2021. In the context of the secretary-general’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative, the objective of the 2021 ministerial is to strengthen UN peacekeeping, in part by improving the performance and impact of UN peacekeeping operations, closing capability gaps through concrete pledges, […]

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    Multilateral System, Peacekeeping, Protection of Civilians, Sustaining Peace, Technology, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • 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
  • Panel Discussions 11-07-2019

    Toward a More Effective UN-AU Partnership

    IPI held a policy forum on November 7th on the evolution of the strategic partnership between the United Nations and the African Union, with a specific focus on how they undertake conflict prevention and crisis management efforts. Organized with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the African Union Permanent Observer Mission to […]

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    Multilateral System, Regional Organizations
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    March 20, 2023 by Dirk Druet

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    The UN General Assembly’s COE Working Group has a fork-in-the-road opportunity to advance UN…

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    January 18, 2023 by Alexander Gilder
    The UN should consider both the successes of the whole-of-mission approach and the pitfalls of its ever-burgeoning understanding of PoC.
    Analysis, peacekeeping, protection of civilians

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