Panel Discussions
IPI’s policy discussions bring together representatives from the UN and NGO communities, primarily in New York, and include policy experts, government officials, the media, scholars, and the secretariats of international organizations. They include our Policy Fora, which are for a large audience, and Forum on World Affairs, which are for a select group of UN Ambassadors, senior officials from the UN Secretariat, and other guests by special invitation.
Panel Discussions - September 22, 2009
Denmark, IPI Co-host Meeting on Climate Change as Security Threat
Panel Discussions - April 30, 2009
IPI Presents Ideas on Strengthening Capacity to Secretary-General
Panel Discussions - February 12, 2009
Winner of 2008 UN Human Rights Prize, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Discusses Sexual Violence in the Congo
Panel Discussions - November 13, 2008
Implementing the UN Global Counterterrorism Strategy in South Asia
Panel Discussions - October 13, 2008
Foreign Ministers Gather for 1st Annual Symposium on The State of Freedom of Expression
The Global Observatory
Interview with John Prendergast, Co-Founder, Enough Project
Mr. Prendergast discusses the international justice system and the new ground forged by Invisible Children's Kony2012 campaign.
Key Global Events to Watch in May
A list of key upcoming meetings and events with implications for global affairs.
The Global Observatory is a new website by IPI, providing timely analysis on peace and security issues, interviews with leading policymakers, interactive maps, and more.
Recent Events
May 10, 2012
Arbour: What the Rule of Law Means
“In my understanding of the rule of law, fundamentally, what the rule of law means is that it embraces the principle of equality before the law,” Louise Arbour, president of the International Crisis Group (ICG), told an IPI audience on May 10, 2012. Ms. Arbour outlined that this means that no one is above the law and everyone has both equal protection and equal benefit of the law. 
May 03, 2012
Shachtman: Cyber Threats Akin to South Bronx, Not Pearl Harbor
“There’s not a danger of a cyber Pearl Harbor… it’s more like the South Bronx circa 1999, where there’s a danger that it becomes such a tough neighborhood that no one wants to set up shop there and people move out,” Noah Shachtman, editor of the Danger Room blog at Wired magazine and non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, told an IPI audience at a panel on cyber security on May 3, 2011.
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.