International Peace Institute
The International Peace Institute (IPI) formerly International Peace Academy is an independent, international institution dedicated to promoting the prevention and settlement of armed conflict between and within states through policy research and development.
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Title: Leveraging Local Knowledge for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Africa
Date: March 2015Title: New Report: Improving UN Capacity for Rapid Deployment
Authors: H. Peter Langille
Date: October 2014Title: New Report Examines East Africa and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development
Authors: Solomon Dersso
Date: October 2014Title: Mediating Transition in Yemen: Achievements and Lessons
Authors: Steven A. Zyck
Date: October 2014Title: Rethinking Peacebuilding: Transforming the UN Approach
Authors: Michael von der Schulenburg
Date: September 2014Title: From the Margins to the Mainstream: Toward an Integrated Multilateral Response to Organized Crime
Authors: Walter Kemp, Mark Shaw
Date: September 2014Title: Responding to Insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea
Authors: Patrice Sartre
Date: July 2014Title: The Union of South American Nations: Mapping Multilateralism in Transition
Authors: Sandra Borda
Date: May 2014Title: The Political Economy of UN Peacekeeping: Incentivizing Effective Participation
Authors: Katharina P. Coleman
Date: May 2014Title: Small States at the United Nations: Diverse Perspectives, Shared Opportunities
Authors: Andrea Ó Súilleabháin
Date: May 2014Title: United Nations Sanctions on Iran and North Korea: An Implementation Manual
Authors: Enrico Carisch, Loraine Rickard-Martin
Date: April 2014Title: Terminating Security Council Sanctions
Authors: Kristen E. Boon
Date: April 2014Title: Sanctions Implementation and the UN Security Council: The Case for Greater Transparency
Authors: Astrid Forberg Ryan
Date: April 2014Title: Engineering Peace: The Critical Role of Engineers in UN Peacekeeping
Authors: Arthur Boutellis, Adam Smith
Date: February 2014Title: Insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea: Assessing the Threat, Preparing the Response
Authors: Mireille Affa’a Mindzie, Fiona Blyth
Date: January 2014Title: When Do Civil-War Parties Heed the UN? Findings from the IPI Security Council Compliance Database
Authors: Christoph Mikulaschek, Chris Perry
Date: December 2013Title: New Report Plans Ahead for a Postconflict Syria
Authors: Christina Bennett
Date: December 2013Title: A Dangerous Nexus: Crime, Conflict, and Terrorism in Failing States
Authors: Mara Pfneisl, Walter Kemp, Maximilian Meduna
Date: November 2013Title: Talking to Arab Youth: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt and Tunisia
Authors: Nur Laiq
Date: October 2013Title: New Meeting Note: Security and Development in the Sahel-Sahara
Authors: Mireille Affa’a-Mindzie
Date: October 2013Title: Cooperation from Crisis? Regional Responses to Humanitarian Emergencies
Authors: Jérémie Labbé, Lilianne Fan, Walter Kemp
Date: September 2013Title: New Report Examines How to Enhance Training for UN Peacekeepers
Authors: Alberto Cutillo
Date: August 2013Title: Not Just a Numbers Game: Increasing Women's Participation in UN Peacekeeping
Authors: Sahana Dharmapuri
Date: July 2013Title: The Elephant in the Room: How Can Peace Operations Deal with Organized Crime?
Authors: Walter Kemp, Mark Shaw, Arthur Boutellis
Date: June 2013Title: Rethinking Force Generation: Filling Capability Gaps in UN Peacekeeping
Authors: Adam C. Smith, Arthur Boutellis
Date: May 2013Title: Peace Operations, the African Union, and the United Nations: Toward More Effective Partnerships
Authors: Arthur Boutellis, Paul D. Williams
Date: April 2013Title: New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict
Authors: Francesco Mancini, editor
Date: April 2013Title: Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East: Options and Challenges
Authors: Matteo Legrenzi, Marina Calculli
Date: March 2013Title: North Korea & the UN Security Council: Action, Reaction, Trust, and Mistrust
Authors: Eduardo Zachary Albrecht
Date: March 2013Title: Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges in the Fight Against Impunity
Date: February 2013Title: Enhancing European Military and Police Contributions to UN Peacekeeping
Date: February 2013Title: Rethinking Humanitarianism: Adapting to 21st Century Challenges
Authors: Jérémie Labbé
Date: November 2012Title: A Good Office? Twenty Years of UN Mediation in Myanmar
Authors: Anna Magnusson, Morten B. Pedersen
Date: November 2012Title: Preventing Conflicts in Africa: Early Warning and Response
Authors: Mireille Affa’a-Mindzie
Date: August 2012Title: Broadening the Base of United Nations Troop- and Police-Contributing Countries
Authors: Alex J. Bellamy, Paul D. Williams
Date: August 2012Title: Organized Crime, Conflict, and Fragility: A New Approach
Authors: Rachel Locke
Date: July 2012Title: Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States: Lessons from the First Generation of Transition Compacts
Authors: Christina Bennett
Date: April 2012Title: Preventive Diplomacy: Regions in Focus
Date: December 2011Title: Making UN Peacekeeping More Robust: Protecting the Mission, Persuading the Actors
Authors: Patrice Sartre
Date: August 2011Title: Maintaining International Peace and Security: A Summit Meeting of the UN Security Council
Date: June 2011Title: Transforming Terrorists: Examining International Efforts to Address Violent Extremism
Authors: Naureen Chowdhury Fink, Hamed El-Said
Date: May 2011Title: The Security Sector in Côte d'Ivoire: A Source of Conflict and a Key to Peace
Authors: Arthur Boutellis
Date: May 2011Title: The UN Security Council and the Responsibility to Protect: Policy, Process, and Practice
Date: March 2011Title: Transnational Organized Crime and the Palermo Convention: A Reality Check
Authors: André Standing
Date: December 2010Title: The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights from a New Dataset
Authors: Chris Perry, Christoph Mikulaschek, James Cockayne
Date: September 2010Title: Election-Related Disputes and Political Violence: Strengthening the Role of the African Union in Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict
Date: July 2010Title: A New Approach? Deradicalization Programs and Counterterrorism
Authors: Ellie B. Hearne, Nur Laiq
Date: July 2010Title: Power, Politics, and Change: How International Actors Assess Local Context
Authors: Vanessa Wyeth, Paul Romita
Date: June 2010Title: Underdevelopment, Resource Scarcity, and Environmental Degradation
Date: December 2009Title: From Uganda to the Congo and Beyond: Pursuing the Lord's Resistance Army
Authors: Ronald R. Atkinson
Date: November 2009Title: The Invisible Tide: Towards an International Strategy to Deal with Drug Trafficking Through West Africa
Authors: James Cockayne, Phil Williams
Date: October 2009Title: Mediation and Peace Processes: IPI Blue Paper no. 8
Authors: Christoph Mikulaschek
Date: October 2009Title: Biosecurity: Task Forces on Strengthening Multilateral Security Capacity
Authors: Pim Valdre
Date: October 2009Title: A Choice for Peace? The Story of Forty-One Days of Mediation in Kenya
Authors: Elisabeth Lindenmayer, Josie Lianna Kaye
Date: October 2009Title: Global Terrorism: IPI Blue Paper no. 4
Authors: Naureen Chowdhury Fink, Lead Rapportuer
Date: August 2009Title: A Workshop with the UN Working Group on Mercenaries
Authors: James Cockayne
Date: August 2009Title: Understanding Local Context: The Use of Assessment Tools for Conflict-Affected and Fragile States
Date: July 2009Title: Peacebuilding: IPI Blue Paper no. 10
Authors: Jenna Slotin, Lead Rapportuer
Date: July 2009Title: Beyond Market Forces: Regulating the Global Security Industry
Authors: James Cockayne, Alison Gurin, Emily Speers Mears, Iveta Cherneva, Sheila Oviedo, Dylan Yaeger
Date: July 2009Title: The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) and Genocide Prevention in Africa
Authors: Jenna Slotin, Castro Wesamba, Teemt Bekele
Date: June 2009Title: Small Arms and Light Weapons
Date: June 2009Title: Managing Complexity: Political and Managerial Challenges in UN Peace Operations
Authors: Adam Smith, editor, Caty Clement, editor
Date: June 2009Title: Weapons of Mass Destruction
Date: May 2009Title: Peace Operations
Date: May 2009Title: Countering Terrorism in South Asia: Strengthening Multilateral Engagement
Authors: Eric Rosand, Naureen Chowdhury Fink, Jason Ipe
Date: May 2009Title: Conflict Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect
Date: April 2009Title: Private Military and Security Companies: A Framework for Regulation
Authors: James Cockayne, Emily Speers Mears
Date: March 2009Title: West Africa: Governance and Security in a Changing Region
Authors: Abdel-Fatau Musah
Date: February 2009Title: Transnational Organized Crime
Date: January 2009Title: Southern Africa: Threats and Capabilities
Authors: Gavin Cawthra
Date: November 2008Title: North Africa: New Challenges, Old Regimes, and Regional Security
Authors: Claire Spencer
Date: November 2008Title: Eastern Africa: Security and the Legacy of Fragility
Authors: Gilbert M. Khadiagala
Date: October 2008Title: Governing the Global Economy: Strengthening Multilateral Institutions
Authors: Ngaire Woods
Date: July 2008Title: Resource Scarcity: Responding to the Security Challenge
Authors: Richard A. Matthew
Date: April 2008Title: Managing Contradictions: The Inherent Dilemmas of Postwar Statebuilding
Authors: Roland Paris, Timothy D. Sisk
Date: November 2007Title: The UN Security Council's Counterterrorism Program: What Lies Ahead?
Authors: Eric Rosand, Alistair Millar, Jason Ipe
Date: October 2007Title: Global Public Health and Biosecurity: Managing Twenty-First Century Risks
Authors: Margaret Kruk
Date: July 2007Title: Food Security: Vulnerability Despite Abundance
Authors: Marc Cohen
Date: July 2007Title: Poverty and Conflict: The Inequality Link
Authors: Ravi Kanbur
Date: June 2007Title: Population Trends: Humanity in Transition
Authors: Joseph Chamie
Date: June 2007Title: Energy Security: Investment or Insecurity
Authors: Fatih Birol
Date: May 2007Title: Climate Change and Conflict: The Migration Link
Authors: Nils Petter Gleditsch, Idean Salehyan, Ragnhild Nordås
Date: May 2007Title: Transnational Organized Crime: Multilateral Responses to a Rising Threat
Authors: James Cockayne
Date: April 2007Title: Nuclear Weapons: The Politics of Non-Proliferation
Authors: Christine Wing
Date: April 2007Title: Global Terrorism: Multilateral Institutional Responses to an Extraordinary Threat
Authors: Eric Rosand
Date: April 2007Title: Small Arms and Light Weapons: Towards Global Public Policy
Authors: Keith Krause
Date: March 2007Title: Peacemaking and Mediation: Dynamics of a Changing Field
Authors: Chester Crocker
Date: March 2007Title: New Challenges for Peacekeeping: the “War on Terror”
Authors: Richard Gowan, Ian Johnstone
Date: March 2007Title: Global Political Violence: Explaining the Post-Cold War Decline
Authors: Andrew Mack
Date: March 2007Title: Ending Wars and Building Peace
Authors: Charles Call, Elizabeth Cousens
Date: March 2007Title: The Middle East: Fragility and Crisis
Authors: Markus E. Bouillon
Date: February 2007Title: Latin America and the Caribbean: Domestic and Transnational Insecurity
Authors: Arlene B. Tickner
Date: February 2007Title: Europe: Crises of Identity
Authors: Shada Islam
Date: February 2007Title: Central Asia and the Caucasus: A Vulnerable Crescent
Authors: Thomas de Waal, Anna Matveeva
Date: February 2007Title: Asia: Towards Security Cooperation
Authors: Michael Vatikiotis
Date: February 2007Title: Africa: Confronting Complex Threats
Authors: Kwesi Aning
Date: February 2007Title: Development and Security in the Pacific Island Region
Authors: M. Anne Brown
Date: September 2006Title: State-building and Constitutional Design after Conflict
Authors: Vanessa Hawkins Wyeth, Kristi Samuels
Date: August 2006Title: Fuelling the Niger Delta Crisi
Authors: James Cockayne
Date: March 2006Title: Remittances in Conflict and Crises: How Remittances Sustain Livelihoods in War, Crises and Transitions to Peace
Authors: Micah N. Bump, Patricia Weiss Fagen
Date: February 2006Title: International Assistance to Countries Emerging from Conflict. A Review of Fifteen Years of Interventions and the Future of Peacebuilding
Authors: Alberto Cutillo
Date: February 2006Title: Securing the Rule of Law: Assessing International Strategies for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice
Authors: Reyko Huang
Date: November 2005Title: Taking the International Rule of Law Seriously
Authors: Laurence Boisson de Chazournes
Date: October 2005Title: In Good Company? The Role of Business in Security Sector Reform
Authors: Francesco Mancini
Date: October 2005Title: Housing, Land, Property and Conflict Management: Identifying Policy Options for Rule of Law Programming
Authors: Agnes Hurwitz, Kaysie Studdard, Rhodri Williams
Date: October 2005Title: Rule of Law Programs in Peace Operations
Authors: Agnes Hurwitz, Kaysie Studdard
Date: August 2005Title: Kashmir: From Persistence to Progress?
Authors: Cyrus Samii
Date: August 2005Title: Police Reform in Post Conflict Societies: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know
Authors: William O'Neill
Date: April 2005Title: Making States Work: From State Failure to State-Building
Authors: Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff, Ramesh Thakur
Date: July 2004Title: EU-UN Partnership in Crisis Management: Developments and Prospects
Authors: Alexandra Novosseloff
Date: June 2004Title: The Future of UN State-Building: Strategic and Operational Challenges and the Legacy of Iraq
Authors: Kirsti Samuels, Sebastian von Einsiedel
Date: May 2004Title: Program on Economic Agendas in Civil Wars: Principal Research Findings and Policy Recommendations
Authors: Karen Ballentine
Date: May 2004Title: War Economies in a Regional Context: Overcoming the Challenges of Transformation
Authors: Kaysie Studdard
Date: March 2004Title: Peacebuilding as the Link between Security and Development: Is the Window of Opportunity Closing?
Authors: Necla Tschirgi
Date: January 2004Title: You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building
Authors: Simon Chesterman
Date: November 2003Title: From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent Conflict
Authors: Chandra Lekha Sriram, Karin Wermester
Date: May 2003Title: From Promise to Practice: Revitalizing the General Assembly for the New Millennium
Authors:
Date: May 2003Title: Beyond Greed and Grievance: Policy Lessons from Studies in the Political Economy of Armed Conflict
Authors: Karen Ballentine, Heiko Nitzschke
Date: May 2003Title: A Framework for Lasting Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of Former Combatants in Crisis Situations
Authors: Lotta Hagman, Zoe Nielsen
Date: December 2002Title: Responding to Terrorism: What Role for the United Nations?
Authors: William O'Neill
Date: October 2002Title: Economic Priorities for Peace Implementation
Authors: Susan L. Woodward
Date: October 2002Title: Challenges in Peacekeeping: Past, Present and Future
Authors:
Date: October 2002Title: Tiptoeing Through Afghanistan: The Future of UN State-Building
Authors: Simon Chesterman
Date: September 2002Title: The Infrastructure of Peace in Africa: Assessing the Peacebuilding Capacity of African Institutions
Authors: Monica Juma, Aida Mengistu
Date: September 2002Title: Justice Under International Administration: Kosovo, East Timor and Afghanistan
Authors: Simon Chesterman
Date: September 2002Title: Security and Development in Sierra Leone
Authors: Lotta Hagman
Date: June 2002Title: The Politics of Sanctions
Authors: Simon Chesterman, Béatrice Pouligny
Date: May 2002Title: The Political Economy of War and Peace
Authors: Charles Cater
Date: May 2002Title: Policies and Practices for Regulating Resource Flows to Armed Conflict
Authors: Jake Sherman
Date: May 2002Title: Sharing Best Practices on Conflict Resolution
Authors: John Packer, Albrecht Schnabel, Chandra Lekha Sriram, Augustine Toure
Date: April 2002Title: Sharing Best Practices on Conflict Resolution
Authors: Sara Lodge
Date: April 2002Title: Options for Promoting Corporate Responsibility in Conflict Zones: Perspectives from the Private Sector
Authors: Jake Sherman
Date: April 2002Title: Sustainable Peace as Democratization: The Experiences of Haiti and Guatemala
Authors: Chetan Kumar, Sara Lodge, Karen Resnick
Date: March 2002Title: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars: Defining and Developing the Role of the UN
Authors: Alexandra Guaqueta
Date: March 2002Title: Discussions at the Release of The Responsibility to Protect
Authors: Simon Chesterman
Date: February 2002Title: Lessons Learned: Peacebuilding in Haiti
Authors: Lotta Hagman
Date: January 2002Title: From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent Conflict
Authors: Chandra Lekha Sriram
Date: January 2002Title: Empowering Local Actors: The UN and Multi-Track Conflict Prevention
Authors: Ben Rawlence
Date: December 2001Title: The Economics of War
Authors: Jake Sherman
Date: September 2001Title: Kosovo in Limbo: State-Building and "Substantial Autonomy"
Authors: Simon Chesterman
Date: August 2001Title: The Challenges of Strategic Coordination: Containing Opposition and Sustaining Implementation of Peace Agreements in Civil Wars
Authors: Bruce D. Jones
Date: June 2001Title: Managing Security Challenges in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Authors: Sheila Coutts, Kelvin Ong
Date: June 2001Title: East Timor in Transition: From Conflict Prevention to State-Building
Authors: Simon Chesterman
Date: May 2001Title: Private Sector Actors in Zones of Conflict: Research Challenges and Policy Responses
Authors: Jake Sherman
Date: April 2001Title: Refashioning the Dialogue: Regional Perspectives on the Brahimi Report on UN Operations
Authors:
Date: February 2001Title: From Promise to Practice: Strengthening UN Capacities for the Prevention of Violent Conflict
Authors: Chandra Lekha Sriram
Date: February 2001Title: The UN, Europe, and Crisis Management
Authors: Kelvin Ong
Date: December 2000Title: Humanitarian Action: A Symposium Summary
Authors: Jake Sherman
Date: November 2000Title: Competing Claims: Self-Determination, Security and the United Nations
Authors: Simon Chesterman, Tom Farer, Timothy D. Sisk
Date: November 2000Title: From Reaction to Prevention: Opportunities fo the UN System in the New Millennium
Authors: Charles K. Cater, Karin Wermester
Date: April 2000Title: Civilians in War: 100 Years after the Hague Peace Conference
Authors: Charles K. Cater, Bruce D. Jones
Date: September 1999Title: IPA Seminar on UN/NATO Relationship — 'Cooperation between the UN and NATO: Quo Vadis?'
Authors: David M. Malone
Date: June 1999Title: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars: A Conference Summary
Authors: Adekeye Adebajo
Date: April 1999Title: Prospects for Peace in Afghanistan: The Role of Pakistan
Authors: Ameen Jan
Date: February 1999Title: Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Authors: Musifiky Mwanasali
Date: April 1998Title: Peacebuilding in Cambodia
Authors: Michael W. Doyle
Date: December 1996Title: Healing the Wounds: Refugees, Reconstruction and Reconciliation
Authors: Elizabeth M. Cousens, Ameen Jan, Alison Parker
Date: June 1996