The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize seems to reward aspirations rather than achievements, giving more room to those who criticize the Peace Prize as politicized.
Author: Francesco Mancini
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Lamberto Zannier, a career Italian diplomat, became Secretary-General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world’s largest regional security organization, on July 1st, 2011. In this interview, Mr. Zannier discusses the organization’s role in solving frozen conflicts in the post-Soviet space as well as lessons and experiences the OSCE could share […]
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This summer at the European Forum Alpbach in Austria I joined three eminent diplomats in teaching a seminar on UN peacebuilding. There were more than 100 international students from 25 different countries in attendance.My co-teachers were Terje Rød-Larsen, President of the International Peace Institute (IPI); Michael von der Schulenburg, Executive Representative of the Secretary-General for […]
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In the Summer issue of Harvard’s journal International Security, Dominic D.P. Johnson and Dominic Tierney published an interesting article proposing “the Rubicon theory of war” (summary | pdf). As Julius Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon river has come to symbolize a point of no return, the authors explain how the path to conflict reaches the […]
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Since January 2010, Dr. Ibrahim Gambari has been the Joint Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the African Union and the United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). He was interviewed at IPI on June 9th, 2011 by Francesco Mancini, Director of Research at the International Peace Institute.Francesco Mancini (FM): Let’s first talk about the […]