While humanitarian action was traditionally designed to be a short-term emergency response, this is increasingly perceived as inaccurate and even undesirable. Humanitarian actors have acknowledged a responsibility to work toward bridging the “humanitarian-development divide” and not to overlook the nexus between addressing and reducing humanitarian needs and building the foundations for sustaining peace.This issue brief […]
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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 November 3rd, IPI welcomed researchers from the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) at the Earth Institute-Columbia University to share their findings on the central attributes of peaceful communities. In attendance were representatives from various Permanent Missions to the UN, civil society representatives and UN staff.The event, held under the Chatham House […]
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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 […]
Read moreAsif R. Khan, Director of UNDPPA's Policy and Mediation Division and a lead penholder of the New Agenda for Peace, reflects on the policy brief and next steps ahead of the Summit of the Future.
The New Agenda for Peace provides an opening for continental actors to advance priorities at the global level. However, this requires the AU to deliver on…
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