International Peace Academy (IPA) Updates

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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" reviews the history and recent increase in demand for peacepeeking operations and presents policy options for the...

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...

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 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 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 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...