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News, Events, Publications about Sustainable Development

  • Panel Discussions 09-12-2019

    Twenty Years of the Culture of Peace: On the Road to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

    On September 12, IPI and the Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation commemorated the 20th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace and contemplated the path forward with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).“As we look back on those 20 years, in retrospect, the Declaration and […]

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    culture of peace, Sustainable Development
  • 07-17-2019

    Financing the 2030 Agenda: How Financial Institutions are Integrating the SDGs into Their Core Business

    The public and private sectors are often seen as having incompatible objectives, but the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become a point of intersection as the UN and its partners create new avenues to finance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The SDGs have attracted diverse types of investments in a number of […]

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    Sustainable Development
  • Panel Discussions 07-11-2019

    Civil Society Voices Speak in New York on Implementing SDG16+

    The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is enabling a range of innovative, grassroots-led work around its goal on peace, justice, and inclusive societies (known as SDG16+). However, these actions and commitments of civil society at the national level are often overlooked in global-level discussions.This uniquely collaborative event, Voices of SDG16+: Stories for Global […]

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    Sustainable Development
  • Panel Discussions 07-10-2019

    Organized Crime, Arms Trafficking, and Illicit Financial Flows: Exploring SDG Target 16.4

    Organized crime, arms trafficking, and illicit financial flows are a chronic and ubiquitous problem among many developing countries. In 2015, the adoption of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 16.4 decisively placed organized crime and illicit financial flows on the development agenda. While the focus of SDG 16 is on peace, justice, and strong […]

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    Sustainable Development, Transnational Organized Crime
  • Issue Briefs 05-01-2019by Jimena Leiva Roesch

    Guatemala’s Achilles’ Heel: The 2030 Agenda and the Fight against Corruption

    In late 2015, momentum toward implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was steadily building in Guatemala. This momentum was driven by the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and protesters in the streets demanding action against corruption. Since 2017, however, a political standoff in Guatemala has started reversing these gains. A sustained […]

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    Sustainable Development
  • 12-10-2018

    Adam Kadia Presents First Edition of New Book, 17 SDGs, at the International Peace Institute

    IPI-MENA received 12-year old Adam Jade Kadia, who presented the first edition of his second book entitled 17 SDGs to IPI-MENA Director Nejib Friji.Mr. Kadia stated that the reason behind authoring his new book on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to urge youth and the global community to cooperate, as “everybody is in […]

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    Sustainable Development
  • Conferences 12-04-2018

    Innovation in Partnerships: Making a Business Case for Peace

    On December 4th, IPI, One Earth Future, UN Office for Partnerships, UN Peacebuilding Support Office, UN Global Compact, and the Permanent Mission of Republic of Korea launched a workshop series designed to catalyze engagement across public and private sectors and build new kinds of partnerships. While the private sector knows how to engage with topics […]

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    Sustainable Development
  • Issue Briefs 11-29-2018by Alice Debarre, Archibald Henry, and Masooma Rahmaty

    Reaching Internally Displaced Persons to Achieve the 2030 Agenda

    This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, an international framework that authoritatively restates the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs). This presents an opportunity to put the plight of IDPs back on the radar of the international community. At the same time, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development presents […]

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    Displacement and Migration, Humanitarian Affairs, Sustainable Development
  • Panel Discussions 07-17-2018

    Reaching Internally Displaced Persons to Achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

    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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    Displacement and Migration, Humanitarian Affairs, Sustainable Development
  • Panel Discussions 07-16-2018

    Fostering Entrepreneurship & Innovation to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

    “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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