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Sexual violence in the DRC an affront to all - Ross Mountain
IPI held a policy forum November 13, 2009 on Humanitarian Action in the DRC: Retrospective on Last 5 Years and Overview of Continuing Challenges that featured Ross Mountain, the Deputy Special...
Managing Contradictions: The Inherent Dilemmas of Postwar Statebuilding
This report summarizes the research findings of the Research Partnership on Postwar Statebuilding (RPPS), a collaborative research project of thirteen scholars from six countries who have sought to...
Food Security: Vulnerability Despite Abundance
In a series of Working Papers, IPA has asked leading experts to undertake a mapping exercise, presenting an assessment of critical challenges to human and international security. The Working Papers...
The Middle East; Fragility, Crisis, and New Challenges for Peace Operations
Executive Summary The Middle East today faces a variety of acute crises, in addition to longer-term trends that also contribute to the exacerbation of the profound insecurity and instability...
Poverty and Conflict: The Inequality Link
The focus of this paper is on conflicts within states. These range from the full scale armed conflict of a civil war (between two "states within states"), through relatively isolated and contained...
Climate Change and Conflict: The Migration Link
In October 2003, a report to the US Department of Defense received wide public attention for presenting a grim future scenario with warring states and massive social disturbance as a result of...
Meeting Note: Seminar on Integrated Peacebuilding Strategies
Introduction In cooperation with the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), the International Peace Academy (IPA) and the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) organized an informal seminar on...
L'UA au Soudan : Enseignements pour la Force Africaine en Attente
Résumé des recommandations En 2003, le Comité des Chefs d'état-major de l'Union africaine (UA) a relancé les efforts pour créer une Force africaine en attente (FAA), composante essentielle de...
Peacemaking and Mediation: Dynamics of a Changing Field
This paper offers a thorough analysis of the main challenges facing those engaged in conflict resolution today, both normative and practical. These include the challenges of fragile states, normative...
New Challenges for Peacekeeping: Protection, Peacebuilding and the "War on Terror"
New Challenges for Peacekeeping: Protection, Peacebuilding and the "War on Terror" reviews the history and recent increase in demand for peacepeeking operations and presents policy options for the...
The AU in Sudan: Lessons for the African Standby Force
Summary of Recommendations In 2003, African Chiefs of Defense Staff began work on setting up the African Standby Force (ASF), a key component of the African Union's (AU) "African Peace and Security...
Ending Wars and Building Peace
This paper reviews the past attempts at peacebuilding, and while acknowledging progress, discusses a series of chronic weaknesses in international peace efforts. They also point to more fundamental...
The Middle East: Fragility and Crisis
The Middle East is perhaps the world's most crucial region: economically and strategically, the Middle East occupies a top rank on the international agenda, with significance far beyond its...
Small Arms and Light Weapons: Towards Global Public Policy
Small arms and light weapons kill at least 300,000 people a year, in both conflict and non-conflict situations, and injure or disable thousands more. Small arms are the weapons of choice of warring...
Africa: Confronting Complex Threats
Africa is grappling with several difficult security challenges. These difficulties result not only from the magnitude of these challenges, but also from the lack of capacity of African states and...
Central Asia and the Caucasus: A Vulnerable Crescent
The Caucasus and Central Asia - eight countries of the former Soviet Union stretching to the south of Russia and to the west of China - form a chain of weak states, vulnerable to conflict, extremism,...
The European Union in Africa: A Strategic Partner in Peace Operations
One major trend in the field of peace operations over the last five or six years has been the increase in cooperation among international organisations involved in peace operations. This cooperation...
L'Union Europeene En Afrique : Un Partenaire Strategique Dans Les Operations De Paix
INTRODUCTION L'une des principales tendances dans le domaine des opérations de paix au cours des cinq ou six dernières années est l'accroissement de la coopération entre organisations internationales...
Reviving Chapter VIII: The United Nations and Regional Organizations- Partners for Peace
BACKGROUND For several years, the United Nations (UN) has worked to deepen its relationships with regional organizations in the interest of building partnerships that can better contend with evolving...