A broad group of member states, United Nations officials, civil society, academia and members of the public gathered at IPI on February 27th, 2018 to discuss how to interpret and take forward the recommendations of the January 2018 Secretary-General’s report on peacebuilding and sustaining peace.Oscar Fernandez-Taranco, Assistant Secretary-General of the UN Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), […]
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Prevention is generally viewed as a crisis management tool to address the destructive dynamics of conflict. The sustaining peace agenda challenges this traditional understanding of preventive action by shifting the starting point of analysis to what is still working in society—the positive aspects of resilience—and building on these.The goal of this volume is to build […]
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While the importance of good governance to sustaining peace is widely recognized, the focus tends to be on national governance. This overlooks the crucial role of local governance actors, particularly when the central government is fragmented or lacks broad legitimacy. These actors include not only formal institutions like municipal governments but also a mix of […]
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Human rights violations and lack of accountability for such violations are often drivers of conflict. Monitoring human rights, therefore, could provide early warning of and help prevent destabilization of societies. Secretary-General António Guterres alluded to this in his April 2017 address to the Security Council, where he observed that “upholding human rights is a crucial […]
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Geneva’s fourth annual Peace Week—held from November 6-10, 2017— focused on effective pathways for the implementation of prevention. The theme built off the dual resolutions in 2016 of the UN Security Council and General Assembly on sustaining peace.Representing IPI was Lesley Connolly, IPI Policy Analyst, who participated in two panels; one, co-sponsored by IPI, Concordia […]
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On November 6th, Marie-Joëlle Zahar, IPI Senior Fellow, and Delphine Mechoulan, IPI Policy Analyst, presented the main findings of their report “Peace by Pieces? Local Mediation Initiatives and Sustainable Peace in the Central African Republic.”The report, which by can be found here, describes and analyzes the impact of local mediation activities in the Central African […]
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The Central African Republic (CAR) has earned an undesirable reputation as one of the most troubled spots on earth. Many international and regional mediation efforts have attempted to resolve the conflict in CAR. Less discussed, however, are a multiplicity of local mediation efforts aiming to bring about tangible immediate change.This report focuses on these local […]
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On October 18th, IPI welcomed local peacebuilders from across the globe to examine how community-led peace networks can develop more inclusive and integrated peacebuilding processes.At the roundtable authors’ workshop, six peacebuilders talked about their upcoming reports on peacebuilding networks in their case study countries. The event marks the conclusion of a two-year project with the […]
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On October 17th, IPI co-hosted a policy forum with Peace Direct to explore how the United Nations and the international community can better support local peacebuilders in their work of sustaining peace.Lesley Connolly, IPI Policy Analyst and moderator for the event, opened the discussion with a clear statement of its purpose. “We believe local peacebuilders […]
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The dual “sustaining peace” resolutions adopted by the Security Council and General Assembly in April 2016 did not mention how this concept might be applied to responses to violent extremism. Nonetheless, given the failure of existing responses and the constantly evolving, multi-faceted nature of the problem, there is a clear need to examine the issue […]
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At the start of every month, the Global Observatory posts a list of key upcoming meetings and events that have implications for global affairs.AUGUST 1-3: United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), Eighth session, New YorkThe UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management—the…
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