From September 3–5, 2017, IPI convened its annual Salzburg Forum on the theme “Mapping the New Geopolitics, Prisoners of Geography or Lords of the Land?”The meeting brought together former prime ministers and foreign ministers, officials from the United Nations and regional organizations, diplomats, journalists, academics, experts on the Middle East and Europe, and representatives of […]
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Over the past few years, the world has been confronted with a series of crises that have challenged perceptions of global stability. Whether a moment of high risk or great opportunity, this is without a doubt a moment of growing complexity. More actors, institutions, and networks of interests are engaged in the international sphere than […]
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The United Nations Operations in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI) is widely being praised as a success story—after 13 years, the peacekeeping mission will be closing in June 2017 and leaving behind a stable and prosperous country. With the closing of the mission, and as Cote d’Ivoire launches its campaign for a non-permanent member seat on the […]
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An IPI audience heard high praise for the United Nations’ response to “a rapidly changing international society fuelled by social media and a much more active and engaged public,” from Peter Martin Lehmann Nielsen, Chargé d’Affaires of Denmark to the UN. Mr. Lehmann Nielsen was referring to the unprecedented transparency of the UN’s 2016 secretary-general […]
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United Nations Secretary-General-Designate António Guterres, Deputy Secretary-General-Designate Amina Mohammed, and members of the Secretary-General’s Transition Team met with civil society leaders in an event co-hosted by the International Peace Institute (IPI) and the United Nations Foundation at IPI on December 19, 2016.The 90-minute meeting was the first gathering in what is meant to be the […]
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Nejib Friji, Director of the International Peace Institute, Middle East & North Africa (IPI-MENA) office, cautioned students roleplaying as delegates from the UN, to bear in mind that “no cause deserves a single drop of blood,” when debating policy issues.Mr. Friji delivered opening remarks to the Bahrain Universities Model United Nations (BUMUN) 2016 Conference on […]
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Mogens Lykketoft, President of the United Nations General Assembly, told an IPI meeting assessing the results of 2015’s three major UN reviews that the greatest hope of this process was that the UN, “in peace and security, will be much more relevant for the members than it has been in recent years.”The reviews—on peace operations, […]
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On Wednesday, April 6, IPI hosted Vesna Pusić of Croatia at a lunchtime Global Leaders Series event featuring official candidates vying to become the new UN secretary-general. After making a ten-minute presentation, she participated in a wide-ranging question-and-answer format with members of the audience and those following via video.Dr. Pusić is Deputy Speaker of the […]
Read moreIn a conflict marked by incessant violence and a lack of political will—armed groups are present in 14 of the16 country’s provinces —United Nations officers often get trapped in a vicious circle of negativity that makes it…
Beyond the strong international outrage over the suffering of the Rohingyas and other affected communities in Myanmar and Bangladesh, it appears there is still no meaningful concerted action at the international and regional levels. This presents some…
Ivory Coast is three months out from the final departure of its UN peacekeeping mission (UNOCI), but recent mutinies and unrest among…
Global action for conflict prevention, peace and development—as set out in the 2030 Agenda and the Sustaining Peace UN resolutions—is urgently needed, but requires an international…
The political events of last week in Colombia made clear that while the country has a real chance for peace, the road is still riddled with difficulties, and the…
Given its central position in IGAD and the EAC as well as at the African Union Kenya’s electoral approach will have a significant bearing on…
Even as more and more women around the world run for office, claiming their right to equal participation (as enshrined in…
The Gambia's fragile transition since national elections in January this year provide considerable room for studying and responding to the root causes of conflict by pursuing both peace and…
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