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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 Training for Senior Leadership

  • Issue Briefs 04-02-2019by Lesley Connolly and Sarah Taylor

    Incorporating Gender into UN Senior Leadership Training

    Comprehensive leadership training is necessary to ensure that peace operations are effective and that senior leaders are prepared for both the daily challenges and the inevitable crises of peacekeeping. A gender perspective is of central importance to such training. However, gender considerations—from gendered conflict analysis to recognition of who is in the room when decisions […]

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    Training for Senior Leadership, Women‚ Peace and Security
  • Panel Discussions 02-25-2019

    Improving Training for Senior Leaders in UN Field Operations

    “Organizations’ mandates thrive or fail on the basis of the quality of leadership,” said Fabrizio Hochschild, Assistant United Nations Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination. “The allocation of resources are things we have very little control of, but one thing we do have control over is how we select, empower, and support our leaders…it’s worth every possible […]

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    Training for Senior Leadership
  • Policy Papers 02-06-2019by Kevin S. Kennedy and Laura Powers

    Senior Leadership Training in UN Peace Operations

    Due to their unique and complex nature, UN peacekeeping missions depend on effective leadership. Because few, if any, mission leaders have the requisite skills, knowledge, political judgment, and physical and mental stamina upon being selected, they require continuous, institutionalized, and sustained training and learning support. While the Secretariat has undertaken a number of training and […]

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    Peacekeeping, Training for Senior Leadership
  • Panel Discussions 07-11-2018

    Training for Senior Leadership in Missions

    Scenario-based learning for senior leadership teams in UN field missions can greatly improve strategic thinking, decision making, and crisis management in increasingly uncertain operational environments. IPI’s Scenario-Based Learning for Senior Leadership project therefore aims to develop eight training scenarios to be used by senior leadership in peace operations. To integrate these scenarios into existing training […]

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    Peacekeeping, Training for Senior Leadership
  • Panel Discussions 06-20-2018

    Considerations for Police Leadership in UN Peace Operations

    On June 20th, IPI partnered with Challenges Forum and the UN Police Division to host a closed door roundtable , supported by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and Global Affairs Canada. This meeting, on the eve of the UN Chief of Police Summit, brought together police leaders, police advisers, […]

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    Peacekeeping, Training for Senior Leadership
  • Conferences 06-21-2017

    2017 NY Seminar Focuses on Youth, Peace, and Development

    An expert group of diplomats, UN officials, and representatives from civil society organizations were convened for the 2017 edition of the annual IPI New York Seminar, held on June 21, 2017. They met to discuss the role of youth leadership for peace and development, in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as […]

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    Sustainable Development, Training for Senior Leadership, Youth
  • Conferences 06-07-2016

    2016 New York Seminar: Sustaining Peace

    An expert group of diplomats, UN officials, and representatives from civil society organizations and think tanks discussed the policy and programmatic implications of implementing the “sustaining peace” approach outlined in identical General Assembly and Security Council resolutions adopted April 27, 2016. The 2016 edition of the annual IPI New York Seminar was held June 7, […]

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    Sustaining Peace, Training for Senior Leadership
  • Panel Discussions 11-02-2015

    Addressing and Analyzing Organized Crime in Fragile States

    Transnational organized crime (TOC) has developed into a powerful force impacting lives both locally and globally, having benefitted from the increasing integration of the global economy and regional proliferation of state fragility. Particularly in the post-conflict context where multilateral organizations are mandated to support the government in re-building state capacities, there is a lack of […]

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    Training for Senior Leadership, Transnational Organized Crime
  • General Announcements 09-15-2015

    African Junior Fellows Assess the Role of the UN

    The seventh annual African Junior Professionals Fellows program from July 6-30 2015 provided a further opportunity to deepen the relationship between the emerging generation of young African leaders and the United Nations. Ten graduate students from five African countries – Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya – met with a broad cross section of UN […]

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    Training for Senior Leadership
  • Conferences 04-17-2015

    2015 New York Seminar: The Future Role of Peacekeeping Operations

    On Friday, April 17, IPI hosted the 2015 edition of the New York Seminar on the topic of “The Future Role of Peacekeeping Operations.” This year’s edition, co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Austria and Italy to the United Nations, gathered experts, diplomats, and representatives from international organizations and civil society for an in-depth and […]

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    Peacekeeping, Training for Senior Leadership
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