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    The International Peace Institute (IPI) is an independent, international not-for-profit think tank dedicated to managing risk and building resilience to promote peace, security, and sustainable development. To achieve its purpose, IPI employs a mix of policy research, strategic analysis, publishing, and convening. With staff from more than twenty countries and a broad range of academic fields, IPI has offices facing United Nations headquarters in New York and offices in Vienna and Manama.

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News, Events, Publications about Sustaining Peace

  • 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
  • 11-21-2019

    The Importance of Inclusion and Human Rights to Building Sustainable Peace

    On November 21st, IPI together with the Normandy Region cohosted a policy forum to discuss the importance of inclusion and human rights in building lasting, durable, and sustainable peace. This discussion focused on the importance of women’s participation in peace processes and of meaningfully connecting different levels of leadership from different sectors working for peace.Watch […]

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    Human Rights, Sustaining Peace, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • 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
  • 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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    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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    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
  • 09-05-2018

    Kuwaiti Foundation Head Al-Babtain on the Culture of Sustaining Peace

    “Nowadays, more than ever before, for the survival of humanity, there lies the need to transform our perception of peace from possibility to necessity,” said Abdul Aziz Saud Al-Babtain, a Kuwaiti poet and activist who is director and Founder of the Al-Babtain Foundation.Speaking to a lunchtime side event of the annual United Nations High-Level Forum […]

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    Sustaining Peace
  • Panel Discussions 06-19-2018

    Breslauer: “Much Harder to Build Peace Than to Destroy It”

    To meet the challenging task of putting the sustaining peace agenda into operation, there is still limited understanding of how to measure the impact of preventative activities and sustain peace. However, as the United Nations works to advance the Secretary-General’s peacebuilding and sustaining peace agenda, there is a need to identify and analyze innovations in […]

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    Sustaining Peace
  • Comment & Analysis 06-15-2018

    IPI’s Lesley Connolly Discusses the Role of Local Actors in Advancing Sustaining Peace

    IPI’s Senior Policy Analyst, Lesley Connolly, discussed the role of local actors in advancing sustaining peace in an interview conducted at the Fri Ent Peacebuilding Forum, held in Berlin from June 13th to June 15th, 2018.Ms. Connolly noted that in order to advance sustaining peace in practice, there is a need to overcome the barriers […]

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  • The Importance of Inclusion and Human Rights to Building Sustainable Peace

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    The attack shows that despite losing its founder and some of its top commanders in the Middle East last month, IS has fighters loyal to its cause and…

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    November 7, 2019 by Colin Robinson
    A strong partnership between Mogadishu and the regions is vital to a unified counterinsurgency effort.
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