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News, Events, Publications about Regional Organizations

  • Conferences 07-05-2016

    Promoting Peace in Northeast Asia

    On July 5th, the International Peace Institute, together with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, held a seminar in Vienna on the North Asia Peace Cooperation Initiative (NAPCI). The event was designed to increase awareness of NAPCI among Vienna-based institutions, and to enable NAPCI to learn from such institutions like the […]

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    Regional Organizations
  • Policy Papers 06-27-2016by Walter Kemp

    OSCE Peace Operations: Soft Security in Hard Environments

    Although the OSCE has a mandate for peacekeeping, it has not undertaken peacekeeping operations per se. Nonetheless, it has carried out a diverse and extensive range of activities that fall within what have been described as “peace operations.” These have included verification, monitoring, and observation missions, particularly the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine. Taking […]

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    Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations
  • Panel Discussions 05-25-2016

    Wane: Africans Want to Control Peace on Their Continent

    With international challenges including terrorism, the refugee crisis, and the volatile security situation in fragile states directly affecting them, Africans are especially keen to take charge of their continent’s destiny.UN cooperation with regional organizations like the African Union (AU) is at an all time high, El Ghassim Wane, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, […]

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  • Speaker Events 05-17-2016

    Zannier: Europe Still Needs Post Cold War Reconciliation

    Lamberto Zannier, the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co‑operation in Europe (OSCE), discussed the organization’s perspective on “Security Challenges in Europe,” at an IPI meeting, May 17, 2016.With a membership of 57 countries and based in Vienna, the OSCE is the largest intergovernmental body in the world. Though nominally a security organization, […]

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    Regional Organizations
  • Policy Papers 05-10-2016by Walter Lotze and Paul D. Williams

    The Surge to Stabilize: Lessons for the UN from the AU’s Experience in Somalia

    In recent years, a growing number of UN peacekeepers have been mandated to carry out “stabilization” tasks. Yet the UN still has no explicit definition of or framework for this concept, and most recent stabilization operations, such as those in Afghanistan and Iraq, occurred under quite different circumstances from UN peacekeeping operations. The AU Mission […]

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    Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations
  • Speaker Events 04-29-2016

    OSCE Minorities Rep: Nationalism in Europe Undermining Rights

    Astrid Thors, Organization for Security and Co operation in Europe (OSCE) High Commissioner on National Minorities, spoke about security challenges for the OSCE region at an April 29, 2016 meeting, “Prevention in Practice.”The chief European representative for national minorities, Thors said her office was tested by the large migrant crisis in Europe. “Migration flows bring […]

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  • Meeting Notes 06-04-2015by Margaret Williams

    Security Council Retreat Examines Cooperation between Council and Regional Organizations

    Regional organizations have been playing increasingly important roles in the maintenance of international peace and security in recent years. In parallel, their interactions with the UN Security Council have grown, presenting new opportunities and challenges for collaboration in advancing peace. How can the Security Council and regional organizations work together more effectively?As organizations try to […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations, UN Security Council, Violent Extremism
  • Panel Discussions 05-04-2015

    AU and UN Look for Ways to Strengthen Cooperation

    A group of high-level international diplomats and government representatives said the proliferation of conflicts in Africa points to the need for the United Nations (UN) to rethink the way it works with the African Union (AU) in promoting peace and security on the continent.This emerged from a May 4th policy forum on the topic of […]

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    Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations
  • Speaker Events 03-05-2015

    FM Lukšić: How Regional Organizations Can Promote Global Peace and Security

    Regional organizations can go a long way in supporting global peace and security because they can provide the UN system with regional expertise as well as local knowledge of regional crises, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Igor Lukšić of Montenegro said at IPI on March 5th.

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  • Policy Papers 02-03-2015by Paul D. Williams and Solomon Dersso

    Saving Strangers and Neighbors: Advancing UN-AU Cooperation on Peace Operations

    The United Nations and African Union now deploy a record number of peacekeepers in Africa. In the past two years, the relationship between the two institutions has deepened, as new AU missions in Mali and the Central African Republic have transitioned into UN peacekeeping operations and ongoing missions in Somali and South Sudan have expanded […]

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    Peacekeeping, Regional Organizations
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