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Panel Discussions - March 20, 2012
The Importance of Tracking Arms Transfers
“The largest volume of [arms] transfers have gone to Asia and Oceania, followed by Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, and Africa, during this last five-year period,” Paul Holtom, Director of the Arms Transfer Program at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), told an IPI lunchtime panel on March 20, 2012. 
Panel Discussions - January 18, 2012
Settling International Disputes: Lessons from the Åland Islands
This two-panel event entitled “Settling International Disputes: Lessons from the Past, Challenges for the Future,” marked the 90th anniversary of the historic settlement of the Åland Islands question.
Panel Discussions - December 15, 2011
Preventive Diplomacy: What Works and What Doesn’t
An international forum titled "Conflict Prevention and Preventive Diplomacy: What Works and What Doesn’t?" was held at IPI on December 15, 2011 and was attended by more than 50 participants from UN permanent missions, multilateral agencies, think tanks, and universities.
Panel Discussions - November 18, 2011
Prevent Piracy At All Costs Says Freed Ship Master
“We have to prevent hijacking of ships at all costs,” Mahadeo Makane, himself a victim of such an attack, told an IPI audience on November 18th.
Mr. Makane, the former Master of the ship Marida Marguerite, spoke on the treatment by pirates of hostages, recounting his own horrific experience, when his ship was captured and he was kept chained and in isolation for twenty-one days.
Panel Discussions - November 14, 2011
Okoth-Obbo: IDPs “Very Poor Cousins of Refugees”
“IDPs really remain very poor cousins of refugees,” remarked George Okoth-Obbo, Director, Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at a lunchtime IPI Policy Forum on November 14, 2011 entitled, "The Kampala Convention and Internal Displacement."
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Coping with Crisis is a multi-year research and policy-facilitation program that works to inform and assist decision makers in the UN, multilateral organizations, member state capitals, and civil society to address emerging security challenges and strengthening multilateral response capacities.
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