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Coping with Crisis
Compliance with Security Council Resolutions
Recent Highlights
General Announcements - April 28, 2011
First Findings From Study of Compliance with Security Council Resolutions Presented at Convention
Under which circumstances and why do warring factions comply with third-parties’ demands for the cessation of hostilities, and when do such calls go unheeded? 
Panel Discussions - September 14, 2010
UN Security Council Strategies for Managing Civil Wars Evolving
A policy discussion around a new IPI report on UN Security Council strategies for managing civil wars included comments by Ambassador Gert Rosenthal of Guatemala, who called the report "fascinating" and said that "it shows a Security Council which is continually evolving."
Policy Papers - September 07, 2010
The UN Security Council and Civil War: Insights from New IPI Study
Chris Perry, Chris Perry, James Cockayne
This new IPI report examines trends in how the Security Council has engaged with civil wars since 1989 and the gradual evolution of the Council’s civil-war response strategies, including where and when it chose to engage.
Conferences - May 22, 2009
Doctoral Students Attend Training and Work on IPI Security Council Compliance Database
The compilation of the IPI Security Council Compliance Database entered into a new phase on May 22, 2009 as twenty-five doctoral students began systematically assessing compliance by civil-war parties with more than 1,500 specific demands issued by the UN Security Council to them in the context of twenty-five recent civil wars.
Conferences - May 21, 2009
First Meeting of Security Council Project Advisory Group Gathers Noted Experts and Practitioners
Members of the advisory group of IPI’s project on Understanding Compliance with UN Security Council Resolutions in Civil Wars convened at IPI’s Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security and Development on May 21, 2009 for a seminar featuring presentations and active discussions on the research question, hypotheses, and methodology of the project as well as on an early draft of a forthcoming report entitled, “The UN Security Council and Civil War: First Insights from a New Dataset.”
About This Project
The UN Security Council Compliance Project involves a quantitative and qualitative review of compliance with all Security Council Resolutions passed between 1989 and 2003 in the context of civil wars. The project combines a statistical analysis of compliance with detailed case studies. It seeks to provide evidence-based answers to the question of the extent to which civil-war parties comply with the broad range of demands issued by the Council, and whether the variance in the level of compliance can be explained by conflict settings, conflict management strategies, and political dynamics within the Council.
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