Meeting Notes - December 13, 2004

The Iraq Crisis and World Order: Structural and Normative Challenges

This report summarizes the Bangkok meeting discussions, focusing on insights relating to UN reform.  

Meeting Notes - October 13, 2004

Appraising Efforts to Improve Conflict Management in West Africa

This report stems from the Accra seminar intended to review developments on the implementation of the ECOWAS security mechanism, assess the status of the implementation of the recommendations made at past seminars and provide recommendations to the United Nations (UN), the African Union (AU), and sub-regional organizations on how to improve their strategies for successful intervention in Africa.  

Meeting Notes - September 13, 2004

Police Reform Through Community-Based Policing

Police reform is being increasingly recognized as a fundamental element of conflict management.  

Policy Papers - July 14, 2004

EU-UN Partnership in Crisis Management: Developments and Prospects

This report summarizes findings from a one-year International Peace Institute project on relations between the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) in the area of crisis management.  

Books - July 13, 2004

The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century

Encyclopedic in scope and authoritative in analysis. Everyone who cares about the future role of the United Nations and the international rule of law will want to read this book. -- John G. Ruggie, Harvard University

Meeting Notes - May 31, 2004

A Fork in the Road: Conversations on the Work of the High Level Panel On Threats, Challenges, and Change

There is strong support for the decision of the Secretary-General to put the effectiveness and relevance of collective security on the world's agenda.  

Policy Papers - March 14, 2004

War Economies in a Regional Context

This policy report distills key findings from research commissioned by the International Peace Institute on the regional dimensions of war economies and the challenges they pose for peacemaking and peacebuilding. Drawing from analytical research as well as case studies of Afghanistan in Central Asia, Sierra Leone in West Africa, and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Southeast Europe, a number of key issues concerning the political economy of regional war economies and lessons for more effective peacebuilding were identified.