From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations
IPI’s Africa Program and the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa, organized the New York launch of the Centre’s latest volume, a comprehensive, provocative and engaging...
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Deconstructing the North-South Label
Since the end of the Cold War, many commentators have employed the North-South label to draw a dichotomy between wealthy, developed countries primarily located in the northern hemisphere (the North)...
View ArticleThe Politics and Practice of Protection
The Security Council first addressed the issue of protection in 1999. The debate came at the end of a period in which peacekeepers were impotent witnesses to the immense suffering of civilians in...
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IPI’s Edward C. Luck Tells Al Jazeera: ”Good Reason to Believe” Crimes...
Asked on Al Jazeera on February 23rd if crimes against humanity were being committed in Libya, Dr. Edward C. Luck, IPI Senior Vice President for Research and Programs, said that though “we don’t have...
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The UN Security Council and the Responsibility to Protect: Policy, Process,...
The International Peace Institute (IPI) and the Diplomatic Academy Vienna have put together the first comprehensive analysis of the role of the UN Security Council in the ongoing process of...
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Luck: Council Action on Libya ”Historic” Implementation of RtoP
Edward C. Luck, IPI’s Vice President for Research and Programs and a Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General, discussed the military intervention in Libya and how it represented an...
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Envoys Agree on RtoP Principle, Question Implementation
Two UN ambassadors and one former Security Council president held a vigorous debate at IPI on the subject “Responsibility to Protect: An Emerging Principle”, and, while they agreed on RtoP’s value as...
View ArticleBlood and Borders: RtoP and Kin-States
Nations and states seldom overlap. As a result, map lines delineating statehood can become blurred by bloodlines of nationhood. People sharing the same ethnicity may live on different sides of the...
View ArticleBook Review: Why Should We Help People in Need Beyond Our Borders?
In the late 1990s and early 2000s the rise of globalization and an evolving human rights regime inspired a proliferation of work dedicated to cosmopolitan theory. Attention to the concept of...
View ArticleElders Propose Veto Reform in Cases of Atrocities
Photo credit: Neville Elder | The Elders A high-level panel took up the subject of preventing mass atrocities and how the United Nations Security Council can do better at the International Peace...
View ArticleIPI Salzburg Forum 2015: The Rule of Law and the Laws of War
One of the main threats to the current world order is the erosion of the rule-of-law based international system. Due to the advent of new technologies and hybrid warfare, the laws of war have also...
View ArticleThe UN’s Response to the Human Rights Crisis After the Coup in Myanmar:...
Since seizing power in a coup on February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military has launched a violent crackdown against anti-coup protesters—a campaign of terror that may amount to crimes against humanity. With...
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