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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 more than twenty countries 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 Peacebuilding

  • Policy Papers 09-24-2020by Priyal Singh and Daniel Forti

    Beyond 2020: Exploring the Potential for a Strong UN-AU Peacebuilding Partnership

    Effective and sustainable multilateral peace and security initiatives in Africa depend on a strong partnership between the United Nations and the African Union. While their strategic partnership has grown since 2017, collective peacebuilding efforts still lag behind cooperation in other areas. Different institutional mandates, policy frameworks, and operational practices have led them to carve out […]

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    Peacebuilding, Regional Organizations
  • Issue Briefs 09-15-2020by Masooma Rahmaty and Jasmine Jaghab

    Peacebuilding during a Pandemic: Keeping the Focus on Women’s Inclusion

    This year was expected to be an opportunity to assess the past twenty years of progress on the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda. Instead, it has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has dominated the international community’s attention and put recent gains for WPS at risk. One of the areas most at risk […]

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    Peacebuilding, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Policy Papers 09-14-2020by Jake Sherman and Florian Krampe

    The Peacebuilding Commission and Climate-Related Security Risks: A More Favourable Political Environment?

    Climate change and the associated climate-related security risks increase instability and have significant adverse effects on peacebuilding. Within the UN, however, there is a lack of consensus on which organs are most appropriate to respond to climate-related security risks. Most of the bodies addressing climate change do not address its intersection with peace and security, […]

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    Climate Change, Peacebuilding
  • Policy Papers 05-28-2019by Lesley Connolly and Laurie Mincieli

    Sustaining Peace in Liberia: New Reforms, New Opportunities?

    The reforms to the UN development system, effective on January 1, 2019, marked the start of a new period for the UN presence in Liberia, making it one of the earliest test cases of a “next generation” UN country team. This comes less than a year after two other transitions: the withdrawal of the UN […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Panel Discussions 04-09-2019

    Young People as Drivers of Peace

    Young people have a critical role in the development of policy affecting them, and on April 9th IPI held a policy forum on “Meaningful Inclusion of Young People as Drivers of Peace.” Co-sponsors of the event with IPI were the Office of the President of the United Nations General Assembly, the UN Peacebuilding Support Office, […]

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    Peacebuilding
  • 02-27-2019

    Gender-based Violence in South Sudan: Prevention for Peacebuilding

    In a ten-day period in November 2018, more than 125 women and girls were raped, beaten, and robbed in the town of Bentiu in South Sudan. The attacks happened in broad daylight, as these women and girls were on their way to food distribution sites. Research shows that understanding this violence against women and girls […]

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    Peacebuilding, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • 12-13-2018

    Measuring Peace Through Locally Driven Everyday Peace Indicators

    IPI and the Carnegie Corporation of New York held a policy forum on December 13th predicated on the notion that local communities—those most directly impacted and living the realities of violent conflict—are the experts on the problems they face, and therefore should be the ones, rather than outside experts, to define what peace means in […]

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    Peacebuilding
  • Conferences 10-22-2018

    To Build and Sustain Peace: Invest in Local Actors

    The need to meaningfully empower local actors working to build and sustain peace  was a central message that came out of an October 22nd IPI event co-hosted with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Peace Direct and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC).The discussion featured 11 peacebuilders and activists from […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Comment & Analysis 11-19-2018

    IPI’s Lesley Connolly on the Importance of Connecting the Local to the Global in Sustaining Peace

    IPI Senior Policy Analyst, Lesley Connolly, discussed the importance of ensuring international actors are always working to support local actors in efforts to build and sustain peace in an interview conducted at the 2018 Geneva Peace Week, held in Geneva from November 5-9, 2018.Ms. Connolly notes that those who are most directly impacted and living […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Panel Discussions 09-26-2018

    The Full Participation of Women Peacebuilders as Mediators in Peace Processes

    Only two percent of the mediators in formal peace processes from 1990 to 2017 were women, and this significant and persistent underrepresentation was the subject of a wide-ranging September 26th discussion at IPI.Setting out the problem in introductory remarks, IPI President Terje Rød- Larsen said, “Research increasingly shows that peace processes that substantively include women […]

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    Peacebuilding, Women‚ Peace and Security
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Recent articles from
the Global Observatory

  •  Where is UN Counterterrorism Headed 20 Years After 9/11? 

    February 26, 2021 by Alistair Millar, Eric Rosand
    Our knowledge of the threat of violent extremism and how to address it will continue to increase. The size of the UN’s bureaucracy should not have to grow with it.
    Analysis, terrorism, united nations
  • Myanmar’s Military Coup and the “Age of Impunity”

    February 24, 2021 by Damian Lilly, Richard Bennett
    There is an urgent need to rethink how to hold to account those responsible for human rights violations not only in Myanmar, but also in other countries.
    Analysis, democracy, southeast asia
  • Regional Special Forces Pose Threat to Peace and Security in Ethiopia

    February 22, 2021 by Bereket Tsegay
    The peace and security arrangement between federal and regional states has allowed special forces to instigate conflicts in unique ways.
    Analysis, africa, peace and security
  • Despite Challenges, UN Peace Operations Will Evolve, Not Disappear

    February 19, 2021 by Katharina P. Coleman, Paul D. Williams
    Peace operations are a highly resilient international institution for managing armed conflict.
    Analysis, peacekeeping
  • New Perspectives on Preventing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

    February 16, 2021 by Amelia Hoover Green, Angela Muvumba Sellström, Ann-Kristin Sjöberg, Chiara Ruffa, Elisabeth Jean Wood, Karin Johansson, Louise Olsson, Roudabeh Kishi, Stephen Moncrief
    As members of the UN Security Council, the UK and US can work to integrate the prevention of CRSV into peacekeeping effectiveness and in efforts to protect civilians.
    Analysis
  • How to Do a Gender Analysis: Practical Guidance for the UN Community

    February 12, 2021 by Phoebe Donnelly
    Many within the UN community are not clear on what a gender analysis entails.
    Analysis, women peace and security
  • How Did Extremism and Violence Become a Dangerous Reality in Burkina Faso?

    February 10, 2021 by Adele Orosz
    Since 2019, insecurity has reached devastating levels. It has become clear that attacks can happen anywhere, targeting anyone.
    Analysis, africa
  • Ensuring the UN’s Duty of Care for the Mental Health of Field Personnel

    February 4, 2021 by Namie Di Razza
    The UN system and member states urgently need to prioritize their duty of care to troops, police officers, and civilians.
    Analysis, peacekeeping
  • Myanmar Lays Bare Challenges of Military-Led Democratization

    February 3, 2021 by Darin Self
    It is unlikely that the military will support full democratization until there is a party that the military trusts.
    Analysis, southeast asia
  • Key Global Events to Watch in February

    February 2, 2021 by the Global Observatory
    A list of key upcoming meetings and events that have implications for global affairs compiled by the Global Observatory.
    Key Events

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