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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 Peacebuilding

  • 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
  • Policy Papers 09-13-2018by Lesley Connolly and Laura Powers, eds.

    Local Networks for Peace: Lessons from Community-Led Peacebuilding

    In recent years, there have been increasing calls to ensure local ownership of peacebuilding design and practice, to take local knowledge fully into account in designing peacebuilding programs and assessing conflicts, and to strive for the meaningful participation of local peacebuilding actors. In the search for new approaches to connect local-level initiatives to international programs and […]

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    Peacebuilding
  • Comment & Analysis 06-15-2018

    IPI’s Lesley Connolly Discusses the Role of Local Actors in Advancing Sustaining Peace

    IPI’s Senior Policy Analyst, Lesley Connolly, discussed the role of local actors in advancing sustaining peace in an interview conducted at the Fri Ent Peacebuilding Forum, held in Berlin from June 13th to June 15th, 2018.Ms. Connolly noted that in order to advance sustaining peace in practice, there is a need to overcome the barriers […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Panel Discussions 04-12-2018

    The Role of Locally-Led Grassroots Nonviolent Movements in Fostering Sustaining Peace

    An April 12th policy forum, co-hosted by the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and Peace Direct, at IPI examined the role of nonviolent strategies in advancing long-term peace, and how these approaches can be put into complementary practice to advance the sustaining peace agenda.Introducing the subject, Maria J. Stephan, Director of the Program on […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Panel Discussions 03-16-2018

    The Peacebuilding Commission: Purpose, Work, and Opportunity

    IPI and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), with support from the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), convened a half-day workshop on March 16, 2018, to contribute to advancements in, and the ongoing work of, the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and its membership. The workshop, which included approximately 40 participants, provided an off-the-record space for PBC members […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Panel Discussions 03-14-2018

    Pax Africana: Peacebuilding in Africa

    IPI was the scene on March 14th of the launch of a new handbook on peacebuilding in Africa and a discussion by prominent Africans on the state of peacebuilding, past and present, on the continent. In opening remarks, Fatima Kyari Mohammed, the new Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, said that […]

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    Peacebuilding
  • Panel Discussions 02-27-2018

    A Discussion on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace

    A broad group of member states, United Nations officials, civil society, academia and members of the public gathered at IPI on February 27th, 2018 to discuss how to interpret and take forward the recommendations of the January 2018 Secretary-General’s report on peacebuilding and sustaining peace.Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General of the UN Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Conferences 11-10-2017

    IPI Participates in Geneva Peace Week

    Geneva’s fourth annual Peace Week—held from November 6-10, 2017— focused on effective pathways for the implementation of prevention. The theme built off the dual resolutions in 2016 of the UN Security Council and General Assembly on sustaining peace.Representing IPI was Lesley Connolly, IPI Policy Analyst, who participated in two panels; one, co-sponsored by IPI, Concordia […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Policy Papers 11-06-2017by Marie-Joëlle Zahar and Delphine Mechoulan

    Peace by Pieces? Local Mediation and Sustainable Peace in the Central African Republic

    The Central African Republic (CAR) has earned an undesirable reputation as one of the most troubled spots on earth. Many international and regional mediation efforts have attempted to resolve the conflict in CAR. Less discussed, however, are a multiplicity of local mediation efforts aiming to bring about tangible immediate change.This report focuses on these local […]

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    Mediation, Peace Processes, Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Panel Discussions 10-18-2017

    IPI Hosts Workshop on Bringing Local Voices to the Sustaining Peace Agenda

    On October 18th, IPI welcomed local peacebuilders from across the globe to examine how community-led peace networks can develop more inclusive and integrated peacebuilding processes.At the roundtable authors’ workshop, six peacebuilders talked about their upcoming reports on peacebuilding networks in their case study countries. The event marks the conclusion of a two-year project with the […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
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