The Security Council first addressed the issue of protection in 1999. The debate came at the end of a period in which peacekeepers were impotent witnesses to the immense suffering of civilians in violent conflict, including those in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.The concept of robust peacekeeping emerged in response to these failures, as some […]
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Since the end of the Cold War, many commentators have employed the North-South label to draw a dichotomy between wealthy, developed countries primarily located in the northern hemisphere (the North) and poorer, developing countries located mainly in the southern hemisphere (the South).
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IPI’s Africa Program and the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa, organized the New York launch of the Centre’s latest volume, a comprehensive, provocative and engaging collection of studies on the role of the UN in Africa and of Africa at the UN.The 30-chapter volume is entitled: From Global Apartheid to […]
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This report outlines the outcomes from an expert roundtable convened by IPI, the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and the InterAfrica Group, which took place in Addis Ababa in October, 2008.
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This Blue Paper addresses both conflict prevention and the related but distinct concept of the responsibility to protect (RtoP).
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has released a report that says the best way to prevent the misuse of the “Responsibility to Protect” (RtoP) would be by fully developing a UN strategy, as well as standards, processes, tools, and practices for the RtoP concept.
Read more On December 1st, Edward C. Luck, IPI Senior Vice President and Director of Studies, presented a statement on the responsibility to protect to an Arria Formula Meeting of the UN Security Council Working Group on Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Africa.To read the full statement click here.
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IPI recently hosted a lunchtime panel discussion to launch a new book, The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All, by Gareth Evans. It was cosponsored by the International Crisis Group and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.IPI Senior Vice President and Director of Studies, Dr. Edward Luck, chaired […]
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As part of its Task Forces on Strengthening Multilateral Security Capacity, IPI convened a roundtable discussion of conflict prevention and the responsibility to protect (RtoP) at the Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security, and Development. It was the fourth and final roundtable of Task Force Two on Inter- and Intra-state Armed Conflict. Participants discussed the […]
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IPI recently held a panel discussion to launch its new report, “Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities and the Responsibility to Protect: Challenges for the United Nations and the International Community in the 21st Century.”The report stems from a two-day roundtable in Stellenbosch, South Africa, jointly-convened by IPI, the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), and […]
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