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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 around the world and a broad range of academic fields, IPI has offices facing United Nations headquarters in New York and an office in Manama.

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News, Events, Publications about Sustaining Peace

  • Panel Discussions 10-17-2017

    Connecting the Views of Local Peacebuilders on Sustaining Peace

    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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    Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace
  • Issue Briefs 10-17-2017by James Bowen and Arsla Jawaid

    Why Preventing Violent Extremism Needs Sustaining Peace

    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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    Sustaining Peace, Violent Extremism
  • Panel Discussions 09-21-2017

    CEO: “Peace is Really Good for Business, But Business Is Really, Really Good for Peace”

    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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    Sustaining Peace
  • Policy Papers 09-21-2017by Jimena Leiva Roesch, Stefanía Doebbel, and Masooma Rahmaty

    A New Way of Doing Business: Partnering for Sustainable Development and Peace

    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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    Sustainable Development, Sustaining Peace
  • Panel Discussions 09-20-2017

    Sustaining Peace and 2030 Agendas “Either Stand Together or Fall Together”

    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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    Sustaining Peace
  • Conferences 09-04-2017

    IPI Joins Forces with The Council of Europe

    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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    Multilateral System, Sustaining Peace
  • 08-29-2017by Youssef Mahmoud

    IPI’s Youssef Mahmoud Addresses Security Council on Peacekeeping and Sustaining Peace

    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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    Sustaining Peace
  • Panel Discussions 07-20-2017

    How to Measure Peace? For What? For Whom?

    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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    Sustainable Development, Sustaining Peace
  • Issue Briefs 06-26-2017by Youssef Mahmoud, Anupah Makoond, and Ameya Naik

    Entrepreneurship for Sustaining Peace

    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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    Sustaining Peace
  • Panel Discussions 06-12-2017

    Dieng: Post-Conflict States Must Deal with the Past to Deal with the Future

    “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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    Sustainable Development, Sustaining Peace
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