From the Introduction: Africa is grappling with several difficult security challenges. These difficulties result not only from the magnitude of these challenges, but also from the lack of capacity of African states and organizations to respond quickly and effectively to them.
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More than fifty senior police and military officers from African countries and partner nations and organizations convened in Accra, Ghana, from October 10th-12th, at the invitation of the the International Peace Institute for a “lessons-learned” seminar on the African Mission in Darfur (AMIS).The seminar aimed to help shape the way forward for the establishment of […]
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This report stems from a seminar co-organized by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and the International Peace Institute which addressed the issue of strategic partnerships as integral to peacekeeping operations in four sessions
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Le séminaire GCSP-IPA a abordé ces questions au cours de quatre sessions: la première a traité de la relation UE-UA en termes généraux et s’est interrogée sur la nature de ce partenariat dans les domains de la paix et de la sécurité ; la deuxième session a examiné la situation au Darfour et la manière dont […]
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This event, organized in partnership with the United Nations University Comparative Regional Integration Studies program (UNU-CRIS) in Bruges and the Institute of European Studies of the Free University of Brussels, took place on the eve of the constitutive meeting of a new Standing Committee created in 2005 to help deepen and institutionalize cooperation between the […]
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La présente note résume les débats tenus entre une quarantaine de représentants de missions permanentes auprès de l’ONU, du Département des opérations de maintien de la paix (DOMP), du Département des affaires politiques (DPA), de l’Union européenne, de l’OTAN et de quelques grands pays donateurs au cours d’une reunion organisée à New York le 20 […]
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This meeting note summarizes discussions among some forty participants from permanent missions to the United Nations, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Department of Political Affairs, the European Union, NATO, and select donor capitals at a seminar held in New York on February 20, 2006.
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On April 4-5, 2006, some thirty representatives of regional organizations (ROs), the United Nations, and experts from four continents convened in Vienna at the invitation of the International Peace Academy [now International Peace Institute] to examine how the UN and ROs could reinforce their cooperation in conflict prevention and peacebuilding. The meeting grew out of […]
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This report stems from the Accra seminar intended to review developments on the implementation of the ECOWAS security mechanism, assess the status of the implementation of the recommendations made at past seminars and provide recommendations to the United Nations (UN), the African Union (AU), and sub-regional organizations on how to improve their strategies for successful […]
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This report summarizes findings from a one-year International Peace Institute project on relations between the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) in the area of crisis management.
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