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    The International Peace Institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to strengthen inclusive multilateralism for a more peaceful and sustainable planet. Through its research, convening, and strategic advising, IPI provides innovative recommendations for the United Nations System, member states, regional organizations, civil society, and the private sector. With staff from around the world and a broad range of academic fields, IPI has offices facing United Nations headquarters in New York.

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News, Events, Publications about Sustaining Peace

  • Issue Briefs 06-08-2020by Agathe Sarfati

    Operationalizing the Sustaining Peace Agenda: Lessons from Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Papua New Guinea

    The twin resolutions on peacebuilding and sustaining peace adopted by the General Assembly and Security Council in 2016 made a breakthrough in the UN’s conception of peacebuilding. Significant work has since been undertaken to reconfigure the UN system to work toward the implementation of these resolutions, and the UN Peacebuilding Commission has launched a comprehensive […]

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    Sustaining Peace
  • Policy Papers 05-19-2020by Christian Lara and Gabriel Delsol

    Sustaining Peace in Burkina Faso: Responding to an Emerging Crisis

    In 2017, the UN launched a system-wide effort to support the implementation of the sustaining peace agenda in Burkina Faso. Since then, a rapidly deteriorating security situation and an imminent humanitarian crisis have forced the UN, the Burkinabe government, and their partners to recalibrate their efforts. This ongoing recalibration, together with the changes resulting from […]

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    Sustaining Peace
  • Meeting Notes 02-06-2020

    Priorities for the 2021 Peacekeeping Ministerial: Reflections from an Expert Roundtable

    The Republic of Korea will host the next UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference in April 2021. In the context of the secretary-general’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative, the objective of the 2021 ministerial is to strengthen UN peacekeeping, in part by improving the performance and impact of UN peacekeeping operations, closing capability gaps through concrete pledges, […]

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    Multilateral System, Peacekeeping, Protection of Civilians, Sustaining Peace, Technology, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Panel Discussions 11-21-2019

    The Importance of Inclusion, Human Rights and Women’s Participation in Building Sustainable Peace

    On November 21st, IPI and the Normandy Region co-hosted a policy forum on the importance of inclusion and human rights in building lasting, durable, and sustained peace, with a particular emphasis on the importance of women’s participation in peace processes and international mediation.The Normandy Region launched the Normandy for Peace Initiative in 2017, and it […]

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    Human Rights, Sustaining Peace, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Policy Papers 09-17-2019by Lesley Connolly and Laurie Mincieli

    Sustaining Peace in Papua New Guinea: Prevention in Practice

    Papua New Guinea is facing two major challenges to peace: a November referendum on the future political status of Bougainville, the site of a brutal conflict from 1989 to 1998; and the recent increase in intercommunal violence in the Highlands region. This makes it an important test case for the UN’s approach to peacebuilding and […]

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    Sustaining Peace
  • Policy Papers 05-28-2019by Lesley Connolly and Laurie Mincieli

    Sustaining Peace in Liberia: New Reforms, New Opportunities?

    The reforms to the UN development system, effective on January 1, 2019, marked the start of a new period for the UN presence in Liberia, making it one of the earliest test cases of a “next generation” UN country team. This comes less than a year after two other transitions: the withdrawal of the UN […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Comment & Analysis 11-19-2018

    IPI’s Lesley Connolly on the Importance of Connecting the Local to the Global in Sustaining Peace

    IPI Senior Policy Analyst, Lesley Connolly, discussed the importance of ensuring international actors are always working to support local actors in efforts to build and sustain peace in an interview conducted at the 2018 Geneva Peace Week, held in Geneva from November 5-9, 2018.Ms. Connolly notes that those who are most directly impacted and living […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Panel Discussions 11-08-2018

    Violent Extremism and Nonviolent Resistance

    On November 8th, the International Peace Institute (IPI) hosted a conversation on violent extremism and nonviolent resistance, or “people power,” the factors behind the choices individuals make to pursue these divergent paths, and how the international community can lend meaningful support at the local level.“What nonviolent resistance is about is having the agency to bring […]

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    Sustaining Peace, Violent Extremism
  • Conferences 10-22-2018

    To Build and Sustain Peace: Invest in Local Actors

    The need to meaningfully empower local actors working to build and sustain peace  was a central message that came out of an October 22nd IPI event co-hosted with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Peace Direct and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC).The discussion featured 11 peacebuilders and activists from […]

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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Speaker Events 09-27-2018

    Margot Wallström: “Without Women, How Can We Achieve Sustainable Peace?”

    In 2014, when Margot Wallström took office as Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, her country became the first in the world to launch what it called a feminist foreign policy, applying a systematic gender equality perspective throughout the whole foreign policy agenda.Speaking at a September 27th IPI Global Leaders Series event on Women and International Peace, […]

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    Sustaining Peace, Women‚ Peace and Security
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