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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 more than twenty countries and a broad range of academic fields, IPI has offices facing United Nations headquarters in New York and offices in Vienna and Manama.

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News, Events, Publications about UN System

  • Policy Papers 11-04-2020by Marc Jacquand

    UN Reform and Mission Planning: Too Great Expectations?

    Since 2017, the UN system has undergone a historic process of reform at several levels and across many entities. Several of these reforms have either directly aimed at improving the planning of UN missions or included elements that have a significant bearing on mission planning. As the focus shifts from designing to implementing these reforms, […]

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    Peacekeeping, UN System
  • Panel Discussions 09-18-2020

    UN 75: The Future We Want, The UN We Need

    On September 18th, IPI, in partnership with UN75, The Group of Women Leaders, and the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, convened a virtual event commemorating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations with a diverse group of women leaders in a dynamic conversation on priorities and solutions for “recovering better” from the […]

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    Multilateral System, UN System
  • Policy Papers 07-23-2020by Wolfgang Weiszegger

    Implementing the UN Management Reform: Progress and Implications for Peace Operations

    In September 2017, UN Secretary-General António Guterres proposed a new management paradigm to enable the UN to confront global challenges and remain relevant in a fast-changing world. The new management paradigm would bring decision making closer to the point of delivery, empower managers, increase accountability and transparency, reduce duplicative structures and overlapping mandates, increase support […]

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    Peacekeeping, UN System
  • Issue Briefs 07-02-2020by Lesley Connolly and Jimena Leiva Roesch

    Unpacking the UN’s Development System Reform

    On January 1, 2019, a far-reaching reform of the UN development system went into effect. This was referred to by the deputy secretary-general as “the most ambitious reform of the United Nations development system in decades.” While this reform has only briefly been in place, questions have already arisen about its implementation and implications.This issue […]

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    Sustainable Development, UN System
  • Issue Briefs 03-23-2020by Wasim Mir

    Financing the United Nations Secretariat: Resolving the UN’s Liquidity Crisis

    The UN is currently facing its most challenging financial situation in nearly two decades. Despite taking emergency measures to reduce spending, the UN Secretariat’s severe liquidity problems have been getting progressively worse, to the point where they are starting to affect the UN’s ability to carry out its mandates. The main cause of this crisis […]

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    UN System
  • Policy Papers 01-21-2020by Arthur Boutellis and Michael Beary

    Sharing the Burden: Lessons from the European Return to Multidimensional Peacekeeping

    Since 2013, after years of near absence from the continent, a number of European countries, along with Canada, have again deployed to UN peacekeeping missions in Africa. The European presence in UN peacekeeping in Africa is now nearly at its largest since the mid-1990s. These countries provide much-needed high-end capabilities, as well as political and […]

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    Multilateral System, Peacekeeping, UN System
  • Panel Discussions 04-23-2019

    PGA Espinosa, Kevin Rudd: UN System, Multilateralism Under Challenge

    “Those of us seeking to be active supporters of the UN over many years and decades understand very well that the system itself is under challenge, multilateralism as a concept of governance is under deep challenge,” IPI Chair Kevin Rudd told a United Nations event organized by IPI and the Office of the President of […]

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    Multilateral System, UN System
  • Issue Briefs 04-17-2019by Wasim Mir

    Financing UN Peacekeeping: Avoiding another Crisis

    UN peacekeeping missions are facing cash-flow problems and financial strains due to the late payment and withholding of assessed contributions. Since the inception of UN peacekeeping, the financing of missions has been a challenge, with periods of calm followed by periods of crisis. The UN has been particularly vulnerable to withheld and late payments from […]

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    UN System
  • Issue Briefs 09-24-2018by Jake Sherman

    Action for Peacekeeping: Will Political Consensus Lead to Change in Practice?

    Secretary-General António Guterres launched the Action for Peacekeeping initiative (A4P) in March 2018 to galvanize member states to commit to peacekeeping and to translate statements of high-level political support into concrete actions. Since then, member states have signed a “Declaration of Shared Commitments on UN Peacekeeping Operations” in which they agree to adapt peacekeeping operations […]

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    Peacekeeping, UN System
  • Policy Papers 05-15-2018by Lisa Sharland

    How Peacekeeping Policy Gets Made: Navigating Intergovernmental Processes at the UN

    Partnerships are critical to effective UN peacekeeping, particularly in New York, where the Security Council, the Secretariat, and member states examine proposed reforms and seek consensus on the direction of peacekeeping. Yet throughout the nearly seventy-year history of UN peacekeeping, relations among key stakeholders have frequently fractured due to their often diverging interests. These differences […]

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    Peacekeeping, UN System
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    January 15, 2021 by Sylvie Namwase
    It is time for Uganda to enact laws in keeping with international standards and redefine the relationship between police and military during law enforcement.
    Analysis, africa, elections
  • 2020 Editor’s Choice: Global Observatory Must Reads

    December 23, 2020 by the Global Observatory
    The editors have assembled some of 2020’s “must read” articles that were not about the pandemic, noteworthy either for their analysis, topic, timeliness, and/or popularity.
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  • Safeguarding Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    December 10, 2020 by Joshua Wimpey, Markus Goldstein, Paula Gonzalez Martinez, Sreelakshmi Papineni
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  • Empowering “We the Peoples” in the UN’s 75th Year

    December 2, 2020 by Michaela Millender, Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
    The UN75 report produced ten key findings that highlighted what respondents felt were both immediate and long-term priorities.
    Analysis, united nations
  • Advancing Climate-Sensitive Strategies in UN Field Operations

    November 24, 2020 by Pushkar M. Sharma
    The devastating effects of the climate crisis underscore why UN peace operations and special political missions must advance climate-sensitive strategies.
    Analysis, climate change, climate2020
  • How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Curb Deforestation in the Amazon?

    November 23, 2020 by Adriana Erthal Abdenur
    Some of the most promising innovations for enhancing the monitoring of forests involve artificial intelligence.
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  • Youth and Climate Action: An Interview with Nisreen Elsaim

    November 20, 2020 by Ahmed Gad, Jimena Leiva Roesch
    Nisreen Elsaim, a Sudanese climate activist and Chair of the Sudan Youth Organization on Climate Change, is a member of the secretary-general's youth advisory group on climate change.
    Interviews, climate change, climate2020

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