Meeting the needs of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)—people who have been forced from their homes but are still within their national borders—is essential to the successful fulfillment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), participants at an IPI July 17th high-level event said.“For many, many IDPs, once they enter displacement, and it’s multiple displacement; […]
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“The UN has strongly endorsed entrepreneurship as an important means of accelerating the SDGs,” IPI Senior Adviser Youssef Mahmoud declared, moderating a July 16th discussion at IPI on the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in the realization of the social and economic gains envisioned by the Sustainable Development Goals. “Entrepreneurship plays an important role in […]
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The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development offers a framework to strengthen and transform preventative action to build peaceful, just, and inclusive societies. A July 12th expert-level event, co-organized with Saferworld, was held at IPI on the margins of the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF) to surface observations from those working to put […]
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Over the last five years Myanmar has gone through fundamental changes as it transitions toward peace and democracy. This transformation provides Myanmar with a unique opportunity to build a peaceful and inclusive society and advance on the path to sustainable development and sustaining peace. Yet at the same time, Myanmar remains submerged in conflict and […]
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Addressing concern that current drug policy can have a negative effect on communities and run counter to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), IPI and the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum held a policy forum on February 22nd on how drug policy can be better aligned with the SDGs so as to enhance both.Setting the tone […]
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Current drug policy too often has a negative impact on communities and runs counter to efforts to ameliorate poverty through sustainable development. However, this is often not captured by the metrics used to measure the impact of drug policy. One way to improve these metrics is to align them with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). […]
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In the lead up to this year’s Our Ocean Conference, hosted by Indonesia, the International Peace Institute, One Earth Future (OEF), and the Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the UN co-organized a policy workshop on February 21, 2018, examining the nexus between the crosscutting issue of maritime security and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, […]
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In December 2016 Gambians took to the polls and successfully replaced longtime president Yahya Jammeh with current President Adama Barrow, ushering in a political transition. More than a year into this transition, the country is at a tipping point. Public expectations remain high, and the list of competing priorities, from increasing economic opportunities to implementing […]
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To meet the scale and ambition of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the private sector will have to play a central role. The agenda provides a window of opportunity for the private sector, governments, the UN, and civil society to collaborate with each other through a new global partnership.This report explores what is needed […]
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Since plunging into a debt crisis in 2009, Greece has undergone a deep economic recession and severe reductions in social services. Several years later, it was hit by a second crisis as millions of refugees and migrants began arriving on Greece’s shores. But focusing only on debt relief and refugees misses a powerful story of […]
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In the lead up to the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council resolution 1325, perhaps one of the boldest steps the global community can make is to truly upend how it approaches peace: to move away from ideas of merely including women in broken processes, and to move towards creating necessary systemic…
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