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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Joan M. Larrea, The Chief Executive Officer of Convergence, said that when she was first asked to participate in conversations about how business interacts with peace processes, she thought everyone knew that peace is good for business, “and I also thought it was obvious that business is good for peace.”“But,” she said, “apparently it’s not […]
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To meet the scale and ambition of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the private sector will have to play a central role. The agenda provides a window of opportunity for the private sector, governments, the UN, and civil society to collaborate with each other through a new global partnership.This report explores what is needed […]
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On September 20th, IPI, Mercy Corps and the United States Institute of Peace collaborated on a breakfast policy forum called “Strengthening the Foundations of Peace: How the 2030 Agenda Reduces Global Levels of Violence and Sustains Peace.”Moderating the event, IPI Senior Adviser Youssef Mahmoud declared, “The 2030 Agenda and the Sustaining Peace Agenda are increasingly […]
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The International Peace Institute (IPI) has entered into a partnership with the Council of Europe to work together on building peace and democracy.The Council’s Director General of Democracy Snežana Samardžić-Marković signed a memorandum of understanding on behalf of the Council at IPI’s Salzburg Forum on “Mapping of the New Geopolitics” on September 4, 2017. Vice […]
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Briefing the United Nations Security Council on August 29th, Youssef Mahmoud, IPI Senior Adviser, recommended a series of fundamental changes, both in attitude and practice, that UN peacekeeping operations should adopt to fulfill the paramount goal of sustaining peace.“Sustaining peace,” he noted, recalling the report of the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO), on […]
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The 2030 Agenda’s global indicators provide a universal framework to measure peace. But what type of additional indicators may be needed to measure peace more holistically? And why is it important to gather data? These were some of the questions considered at a workshop at IPI on July 20, 2017. The “How to Measure Peace? […]
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Innovative entrepreneurship is a cornerstone to the development of a vibrant local private sector. This, in turn, can make a powerful contribution to the ecosystem of peace. Peace is therefore not the sole preserve of the state: entrepreneurs can also be convincing peace brokers.This issue brief focuses on how entrepreneurship can contribute to preventing conflict […]
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“Gone are the days when people believe in wiping the slate clean and starting anew,” Adama Dieng, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, said, addressing a June 12, 2017 IPI policy forum on “How Development Can Promote Accountability, Tackle Impunity, and Sustain Peace.”Nowadays, he contended, “States emerging from conflict must […]
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