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News, Events, Publications about Multilateral System

  • News 10-29-2019

    In Estonia and Finland, IPI VP Lupel Discusses How Small States Can Make a Big Impact in Global Affairs

    From left: Lauri Mälksoo, Professor of International Law, University of Tartu, Estonia; Adam Lupel, IPI Vice President; and Kristi Raik, Director of the Foreign Policy InstituteIn October, Estonia and Finland brought IPI Vice President Adam Lupel to two separate forums to discuss the sometimes challenging but critical role small states play in policymaking and global […]

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    Multilateral System
  • Policy Papers 10-20-2019by Daniel Forti and Priyal Singh

    Toward a More Effective UN-AU Partnership on Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management

    The United Nations and the African Union (AU) have worked in tandem since the AU’s establishment in 2002. During this time, their partnership has evolved to focus increasingly on conflict prevention and crisis management, culminating in the 2017 Joint UN-AU Framework for Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security. But while the organizations’ collaboration on peacekeeping […]

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    Multilateral System, Regional Organizations
  • General Announcements 09-26-2019

    Rød-Larsen Moderates High-Level Launch of Alliance for Multilateralism

    Foreign ministers from some 50 countries were welcomed by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on September 26th to the launch of the Alliance for Multilateralism, moderated by IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen. With nationalism and protectionism on the rise, this informal group of nations came together during United Nations […]

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    Multilateral System
  • Panel Discussions 09-26-2019

    Helen Clark, Irina Bokova Discuss Importance of Multilateralism and Women’s Rights

    Women’s rights are increasingly facing pushback with global trends towards populism and shifting centers of power. This pushback is also occurring at a time when preparations are being made to mark the anniversaries of key international commitments to women’s rights in 2020, including the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and Security Council Resolution 1325 […]

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    Multilateral System, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Panel Discussions 09-25-2019

    Foreign Ministers, Rudd Discuss Future of Multilateral Engagement by Small and Medium States

    Two foreign ministers recently took issue with the currently fashionable notion that patriotism and multilateralism are incompatible. The exchange took place during an IPI high-level panel on multilateral engagement for peace and security by small and medium states.“I think you can be a patriot and a multilateralist at the same time, and small states actually […]

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    Multilateral System
  • Panel Discussions 09-23-2019

    Rebuilding Trust in Multilateralism: The Vexing Case of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty

    “Multilateralism has been highly relevant to the evolution of the arms control nuclear non-proliferation disarmament agenda,” Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia and the Chair of IPI’s Board of Directors, told a September 23rd Policy Forum cosponsored by IPI and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). He cited the example of a key […]

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    Multilateral System
  • Conferences 09-03-2019

    Pulling Together or Falling Apart? Moving Past the Crisis of Multilateralism

    High-risk challenges are undermining the international rule-based order on multiple fronts. This view has been growing in acceptance for several years, and recent developments have reinforced the sense that the UN-based system of multilateral cooperation is “under siege.”Yet, international cooperation has never been more necessary. What is at stake in the weakening of the international […]

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    Multilateral System
  • Panel Discussions 04-23-2019

    PGA Espinosa, Kevin Rudd: UN System, Multilateralism Under Challenge

    “Those of us seeking to be active supporters of the UN over many years and decades understand very well that the system itself is under challenge, multilateralism as a concept of governance is under deep challenge,” IPI Chair Kevin Rudd told a United Nations event organized by IPI and the Office of the President of […]

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    Multilateral System, UN System
  • 12-20-2018

    With World Heritage in Peril, Multilateral System Should Step In

    During an event in Tunis on December 13, 2018, IPI-MENA Director Nejib Friji warned against perils to world heritage and called on the international community to provide all conditions of protection and preservation.In a statement delivered at the opening plenary session of the Arab League Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization’s (ALECSO) Fourth Meeting of the […]

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    Multilateral System
  • Panel Discussions 09-10-2018

    PGA Lajčák: Multilateralism Is Under Threat

    Opening a discussion at IPI on Broader Perspectives on the UN of Today and Tomorrow, outgoing President of the United Nations General Assembly Miroslav Lajčák said the “sad reality” facing the international organization was that “multilateralism is under threat.” He said that principles on which the UN were founded are “no longer universally accepted and […]

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  • Year in Review: Top International Peace Institute Reports of 2022

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    The International Peace Institute's 10 most-read reports of 2022.
    Further Reading
  • Disinformation Is a Growing Threat for UN Peacekeepers

    December 14, 2022 by Albert Trithart
    UN missions will need to address the root causes of misinformation and disinformation by proactively reshaping narratives about the UN.
    Analysis, peacekeeping

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