General Announcements - May 07, 2012

Video: What the Rule of Law Really Has to Offer

This lunchtime Speaker Series event, featured Louise Arbour, President and Chief Executive Officer, International Crisis Group, will focus on the rule of law as a key feature for security and development in fragile states, while ensuring its promotion is as much about the politics as the institutions

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General Announcements - May 08, 2012

Video: Peacekeeping in Africa: African Union-European Union-United Nations Cooperation

This event examined the prospects for the future of the African Union, the European Union, and the United Nations partnership in African peacekeeping and draw lessons from recent peacekeeping operations undertaken in Africa by the three organizations.

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Speaker Events - April 11, 2012

A World With No Center of Gravity

Outlining the ideas in his new book, No One’s World, Charles A. Kupchan told an IPI audience on April 11th that, "I don't think that the pendulum is swinging to China or Asia in general or anywhere else. It is swinging everywhere, and therefore nowhere. 

Policy Papers - April 19, 2012

New Report: Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States

The policy report draws lessons-learned for the UN and others from the first generation of transition compacts in support of postconflict peacebuilding, focusing on case studies from Afghanistan, the DRC, Iraq, Liberia, and Timor-Leste. 

Panel Discussions - April 27, 2012

Preventing Conflicts in Africa: The Role of Early Warning and Response Systems

An April 27th roundtable discussion at IPI titled “Preventing Conflicts in Africa: The Role of Early Warning and Response Systems” examined the progress, prospects and challenges of regional and international early warning and response mechanisms to monitor, anticipate, and mitigate potential conflict situations in Africa. 

Policy Papers - April 18, 2012

Engaging Nonstate Armed Groups on the Protection of Children: Towards Strategic Complementarity

This issue brief provides an overview of the legal, political, and operational frameworks protecting children from the effects of armed conflict, notably from violations by nonstate armed groups.  

Panel Discussions - March 28, 2012

Panelists Say Justice Necessary to Build Lasting Peace

“Peaceful societies are not built on the shoulders of war criminals,” David Tolbert, President of the International Center for Transitional Justice, told an IPI policy forum entitled "International Justice in a Time of Transition" on March 28, 2012.  

Speaker Events - March 21, 2012

Ashrawi: “One Minute to Midnight” in Middle East Peace Process

“It really is one minute to midnight. We need to make, all of us, this last ditch effort," Dr. Hanan Ashrawi told an IPI audience on March 21, 2012, speaking about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

“I think we need people who can stand up and speak out," she said. "People who understand that this is really—I don’t want to be the voice of doom, but we are reaching the end of the prospects for peace in that part of the world.”