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Coping With Crisis
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Meeting Notes - February 13, 2008
Transnational Security Challenges and the United Nations: Overcoming Sovereign Walls and Institutional Silos
Jérémie Labbé, James Cockayne
The International Peace Institute's 2007 West Point Seminar brought together participants from over forty Permanent Missions to the UN and four governmental and nongovernmental organizations to discuss how the UN can address transnational security challenges more effectively.
Policy Papers - July 13, 2007
Food Security: Vulnerability Despite Abundance
Marc Cohen
The world has made significant progress against food insecurity over the past thirty-five years, thanks to investments in agricultural productivity, infrastructure, health, education, and food-related social programs.
Policy Papers - July 13, 2007
Global Public Health and Biosecurity: Managing Twenty-First Century Risks
Margaret Kruk
The links between health and political stability were recognized by the United Nations High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, which named the overwhelming disease burden in developing countries in the context of dysfunctional public health systems one of the six major threats to global security (High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change 2004).
Policy Papers - June 14, 2007
Poverty and Conflict: The Inequality Link
Ravi Kanbu
The focus of this paper is on conflicts within states.
Policy Papers - June 13, 2007
Population Trends: Humanity in Transition
Joseph Chamie
The rapid growth of population is perhaps the major demographic force challenging human well-being, development, the environment, and international relations and security.
About This Program
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.
Program Staff
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.