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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 Peace Processes

  • Speaker Events 03-29-2017

    Rød­-Larsen on Oslo: Sometimes It’s Easier to Do the Impossible

    “Everyone is scrambling around trying to do the possible,” said IPI President Terje Rød­-Larsen while reflecting on how an unlikely peace agreement, the Oslo peace accords, was forged between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1993. Sometimes it’s easier to do the impossible, he said, “because you have the whole field to yourself.”Mr. […]

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    Peace Processes
  • Panel Discussions 02-28-2017

    Why the Colombia-FARC Peace Deal Worked and Could Help End Other Conflicts

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    Mediation, Peace Processes
  • Policy Papers 02-27-2017by Renata Segura and Delphine Mechoulan

    Made in Havana: How Colombia and the FARC Decided to End the War

    On November 24, 2016, the government of Colombia and the biggest guerrilla group in the country, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia–Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP), signed a final peace agreement. This accord put an end to the longest armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere and to long and convoluted peace talks.What elements of the process […]

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    Mediation, Peace Processes
  • Policy Papers 11-30-2016by Francesco Mancini and José Vericat

    Lost in Transition: UN Mediation in Libya, Syria, and Yemen

    The violence in the Middle East obfuscates the fact that there exists also a story of peace efforts across the region—a story of small successes, big frustrations, setbacks, and failures. Through these efforts, UN mediators have sought to achieve the often irreconcilable goals of ending violence while facilitating a political transition and reconciling the parties.

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    Mediation, Peace Processes
  • Books 05-06-2016by Philip Remler

    Chained to the Caucasus: Peacemaking in Karabakh, 1987–2012

    After nearly thirty years without peace, the conflict over the region of Karabakh, which pits Azerbaijan and Armenia against one another, has been called a “frozen conflict.” But with deadly fire across the line of contact every year, it is more accurate to say that the settlement process, rather than the conflict, is frozen. International […]

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    Mediation, Peace Processes
  • Policy Papers 03-24-2016by I. William Zartman and Raymond Hinnebusch

    UN Mediation in the Syrian Crisis: From Kofi Annan to Lakhdar Brahimi

    Kofi Annan and Lakhdar Brahimi appeared to be the perfect candidates to find a way out of the Syrian civil war. The odds, however, were stacked against them. The Syrian regime was prepared to do whatever necessary to survive, whatever the cost to the country. At the same time, the opposition was unwilling to accept […]

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    Mediation, Peace Processes
  • Speaker Events 03-10-2016

    Kaag: Lebanon Must “Elect a President Without Fail”

    Lebanon has long been a model of relative stability in the Middle East, but with economic, political and security strains on the country, Sigrid Kaag, United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL), said that stability is very fragile.“I often get very worried when we applaud and recognize Lebanon’s resilience,” she said, speaking at a March […]

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    Peace Processes
  • Speaker Events 03-01-2016

    IPI-MENA Hosts Tony Blair on Opportunities and Challenges in the Middle East

    Evolution is better than revolution was one sentiment expressed on the future of the Middle East at this Global Leaders Forum with Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Successful societies come from an open-minded society that promotes religious tolerance and an economy that is rule-based, according to participants who are of the opinion […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Peace Processes
  • Speaker Events 12-16-2015

    Peace Polling Can Prepare Ground for Mediation

    On December 16, IPI Vienna hosted a meeting on peace polling with keynote speaker Colin Irwin of the University of Liverpool. Peace polls are public opinion polls designed to test a series of questions and seek to identify common ground on which a peace process can move forward. Unlike market surveys or binary polls designed […]

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    Mediation, Peace Processes
  • General Announcements 10-07-2015

    IPI President Rod-Larsen Discusses Faltering Oslo Accords and Path Forward in Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

    IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen tells Al Jazeera on October 7, 2015, that the way forward in the Middle East is through continued negotiation and building upon the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, as provided for in the Oslo Accords.

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    Peace Processes
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