Dedicated to the International Women’s Day, the talk with Angela Kane will look at various aspects of diplomacy and conflict resolution from a standpoint of a practitioner who served in a range of posts at the United Nations for almost four decades. Angela Kane will share her personal experiences from working in UN civilian peacekeeping missions; high-level negotiations in the conflict environment; leadership in international efforts to establish facts in situations where information supplied by different conflict sides is biased and incomplete; and challenges and opportunities in promoting peace that UN system - driven by member states’ policies - is facing. We will also discuss why engagement of women in diplomacy and conflict resolution is important and how it has changed over the years.

Interview with Moges Zewdu Teshome, Former Lecurer of Law and Associate Dean of College of Law, UN Youth Ambassador, Political Analyst and Human Rights Activist. Postgraduate Student at Vienna School of International Studies.

Interviews with Victoria Rosa and Iulian Groza

Interview with Ghia Nodia, Professor of politics and Director of the International School of Caucasus Studies in Ilia Chavchavadze State University in Tbilisi & Founder of the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development

Interview with Mykola Kapitonenko, Associate Professor at the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. Date: 14 March 2022. Interviewer: Marylia Hushcha, Researcher at the IIP.

The event will deal with the complex linkages between climate, environment and violent conflicts and explore potential pathways through which climate change can increase the occurrence of armed conflict or aggravate existing conflict situations. It will also discuss the challenges that climate change poses for peacebuilding and how environmental shocks can negatively affect the outcome of peace processes.

Acclaimed author Kati Marton sets out to pierce the mystery of this unlikely ascent. With unparalleled access to the chancellor’s inner circle and a trove of records only recently come to light, she teases out the unique political genius that is the secret to Merkel’s success. No other modern leader has so ably confronted authoritarian aggression, enacted daring social policies and calmly unified an entire continent in an era when countries are becoming only more divided. Again and again, she’s cleverly outmanoeuvred strongmen like Putin and Trump, and weathered surprisingly complicated relationships with allies like Obama and Macron.

For many years the IIP has been focusing on developments in and around Ukraine. The recent attack by Russia on a sovereign state that it claims to be a brotherly nation has shocked the whole world. Russia is committing a horrible crime in Ukraine that can have no justification. Official references to Art.51/defense of the Donbass are simply wrong. We hope that violence ends quickly. Our thoughts are with Ukraine.