Margot Wallström: “Without Women, How Can We Achieve Sustainable Peace?”
Event Video: Photos In 2014, when Margot Wallström took office as Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, her country became the first in the world to launch what it called a feminist foreign policy,...
View ArticleIPI’s Lesley Connolly on the Importance of Connecting the Local to the Global...
IPI Senior Policy Analyst, Lesley Connolly, discussed the importance of ensuring international actors are always working to support local actors in efforts to build and sustain peace in an interview...
View ArticleTo Build and Sustain Peace: Invest in Local Actors
Photos The need to meaningfully empower local actors working to build and sustain peace was a central message that came out of an October 22nd IPI event co-hosted with the United States Institute of...
View ArticleViolent Extremism and Nonviolent Resistance
Event Video: Photos On November 8th, the International Peace Institute (IPI) hosted a conversation on violent extremism and nonviolent resistance, or “people power,” the factors behind the choices...
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Sustaining Peace in Liberia: New Reforms, New Opportunities?
Gross ODA disbursement to Liberia, 2007–2017 (Click for full graphic) Top 10 donors of gross overseas development assistance in Liberia, 2015–2017 (Click for full graphic) The reforms to the UN...
View ArticleSustaining Peace in Papua New Guinea: Prevention in Practice
Papua New Guinea is facing two major challenges to peace: a November referendum on the future political status of Bougainville, the site of a brutal conflict from 1989 to 1998; and the recent increase...
View ArticleThe Importance of Inclusion and Human Rights to Building Sustainable Peace
On November 21st, IPI together with the Normandy Region cohosted a policy forum to discuss the importance of inclusion and human rights in building lasting, durable, and sustainable peace. This...
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Priorities for the 2021 Peacekeeping Ministerial: Reflections from an Expert...
The Republic of Korea will host the next UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference in April 2021. In the context of the secretary-general’s Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) initiative, the objective of the...
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Operationalizing the Sustaining Peace Agenda: Lessons from Burkina Faso,...
The twin resolutions on peacebuilding and sustaining peace adopted by the General Assembly and Security Council in 2016 made a breakthrough in the UN’s conception of peacebuilding. Significant work has...
View ArticleSustaining Peace in Burkina Faso: Responding to an Emerging Crisis
In 2017, the UN launched a system-wide effort to support the implementation of the sustaining peace agenda in Burkina Faso. Since then, a rapidly deteriorating security situation and an imminent...
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