Meeting Notes - November 30, 2008

2008 Vienna Seminar: Coping with Crisis in Africa

The thirty-eighth annual IPI Vienna Seminar, Coping with Crisis in Africa: Strengthening Multilateral Capacity for Peace and Security, was held at the Austrian National Defense Academy and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna on June 1-3, 2008.  

Policy Papers - November 13, 2008

Southern Africa: Threats and Capabilities

The second installment of a five-part paper series focusing on African subregions, Southern Africa: Threats and Capabilities, examines the challenges facing the countries of southern Africa-- 

Meeting Notes - October 13, 2008

Pacific Settlement of Border Disputes: Lessons from the Bakassi Affair

This multiauthor study and meeting note provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of the historic Greentree Agreement, which peacefully resolved the longstanding border dispute over the Bakassi Peninsula between Cameroon and Nigeria.

Conferences - October 08, 2008

Toward Lasting Peace in Chad

On October 8th, the International Peace Institute convened a "Multistakeholder Consultation on Chad," together with the United States Institute of Peace and Caring for Kaela, a Chadian advocacy organization.  

Panel Discussions - October 03, 2008

IPI Policy Forum Addresses Crime as an Impediment to Security and Development in Africa

On the morning of Monday, September 22, 2008, IPI hosted a breakfast Policy Forum on "Crime as an Impediment to Security and Development in Africa." The meeting, chaired by IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen and UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa, considered the ways in which local and transnational crime in Africa represents both a cause and a consequence of violence, corruption, and poor governance, and the strategies that international institutions can adopt to arrest this cycle. The meeting was an official Side Event to the UN General Assembly’s High Level Meeting on Africa’s Development Needs.

Policy Papers - September 30, 2008

Eastern Africa: Security and the Legacy of Fragility

The first of a five-part paper series focusing on African subregions, Eastern Africa: Security and the Legacy of Fragility, examines subregional capacity to respond to the multiple challenges facing Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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Speaker Events - September 30, 2008

African Union Chair Jean Ping Discusses Future of AU

On September 19, 2008, H.E. Mr. Jean Ping, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, addressed a group of diplomats and other members of the United Nations and NGO communities in IPI’s Trygve Lie Center.

Panel Discussions - June 23, 2008

The African Union and its Institutions

The International Peace Institute recently held a panel discussion to launch a new volume, The African Union and Its Institutions, edited by John Akokpari, Angela Ndinga-Muvumba, and Tim Murithi. 

Books - May 20, 2008

Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: The Story of UNAMSIL

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  

Panel Discussions - December 17, 2007

African Union and UN Officials Meet to Improve Capacity Building

The International Peace Institute, in cooperation with the UN Departments of Political Affairs and Peacekeeping Operations, and the African Union (AU), convened a high-level workshop on November 7th-8th in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, titled “The Ten-Year Capacity Building Programme: Towards a Broader Understanding of AU-UN Cooperation.”