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Coping With Crisis
Peace Operations
Recent Highlights
Books - May 20, 2008
Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: The Story of UNAMSIL
Funmi Olonisakin
The first in a series of inside histories, Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone relates how a small country's one insignificant in the strategic considerations of the world powers' propelled the United Nations to center stage in a crisis 
Meeting Notes - April 14, 2008
Peace Operations and Organised Crime
James Cockayne, Daniel Pfister
Drawn from a seminar jointly convened by the International Peace Institute and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, this paper explores the relationship between organized crime and international peace operations al hitherto largely neglected area of both scholarly and practitioner-led discourse.
Policy Papers - August 14, 2005
Rule of Law Programs in Peace Operations
Agnes Hurwitz and Kaysie Studdard
The International Peace Institute held a conference on 29 October 2004 on Rule of Law Programs in Peace Operations: Toward a Conflict-Sensitive Perspective.
About This Project
For nearly forty years, IPI has been at the forefront of making peacekeeping more reliable and effective. From the training of UN peacekeeping troops in the 1970s, to the current work on multidimensional peace operations, IPI aims to deepen the understanding of peacekeeping missions around the world and to develop policy ideas for their success.
Project Staff
Senior Director of Research
mancini@ipinst.org
Research Fellow
smith@ipinst.org
Research Fellow
boutellis@ipinst.org
The Global Observatory
A Gulf Union? Not Yet
A union between Persian Gulf countries the along the lines of the European Union may be a long way from being achieved.
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.