“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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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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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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“Efforts to sustain peace must be locally-led, nationally owned, regionally anchored, and internationally supported,” said Yasuhisa Kawamura, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations, at a June 12th IPI event. “It is indispensable to include all relevant actors in peacebuilding and sustaining peace.”His statement was a reflection of the shifting dialogue on the […]
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Youssef Mahmoud, IPI Senior Adviser, spoke at a high level seminar on sustaining peace with particular focus on African women mediators. The event was convened by the African Union Commission, Belgium, and the International Peace Institute on April 25, 2018.Reflecting on mediation processes through a sustaining peace lens, Mr. Mahmoud questioned the assumptions informing the […]
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On May 15th, an IPI policy forum invited participants to discuss how social contracts are developed and adapted to different contexts to transform what are often unsustainable, short-lived elite bargains into more inclusive and durable arrangements for sustaining peace.Hosted in collaboration with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), the University of Witwatersrand, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and […]
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An April 12th policy forum, co-hosted by the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and Peace Direct, at IPI examined the role of nonviolent strategies in advancing long-term peace, and how these approaches can be put into complementary practice to advance the sustaining peace agenda.Introducing the subject, Maria J. Stephan, Director of the Program on […]
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In 2016, both the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council passed resolutions on “sustaining peace,” which they defined as a goal and a process to build a common vision of a society. Rather than focus efforts on conflict resolution, the sustaining peace agenda centers on conflict prevention by studying what qualities make a society […]
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IPI and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), with support from the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), convened a half-day workshop on March 16, 2018, to contribute to advancements in, and the ongoing work of, the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and its membership. The workshop, which included approximately 40 participants, provided an off-the-record space for PBC members […]
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In the wake of the Secretary-General’s recent report on Sustaining Peace, Sven Mikser, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Estonia was interviewed by the International Peace Institute on Estonia’s sustaining peace agenda and suggestions for implementing recommendations from the report.Asked what sustaining peace means for Estonia, Mikser articulated that to prevent conflict, “it’s crucial to […]
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