Talk:International Peace Institute

message: The IPI -- as indicated by multiple passing references online in United Nations and major media web sites -- is intimately involved with, and interactive with, the United Nations and its leadership, and active in a wide range of international affairs -- particularly as a research and policy-development "think-tank" focused on peace, nation-building and development.
However, for all its apparent importance, there is shockingly little coverage of it in the major media, or even in leading publications in the field of international affairs.  (For instance, a precision Google search of two of the leading U.S. journals on international affairs -- Foreign Affairs and Orbis -- found basically no mention of it at all. A similar search of other major media focused on international affairs -- searching the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Economist -- found almost no mention of it at all, and no in-depth articles focused on the institution and its work. 
The significance of the IPI, as documented from online sources, has to be largely interpolated from the variety and significance of topics in which it is mentioned tangentially, as a participant, policy-shaper, or source of expertise -- and the clear indications (as validated in the references, in this article) of IPI's extraordinarily intimate ties to (and involvement with) officials, offices and programs of the United Nations.
A valuable source in validating the significance of IPI should be GuideStar, USA -- the world's leading independent reference on non-profit organizations -- and GuideStar does provide significant and informative detail about IPI.  But even reputable GuideStar's detailed page on IPI seems frustratingly short on validating details about the IPI's actual achievements and significance.
However, this may be due partly to the desire of IPI (an institution operating in the diplomatic arena) to maintain a low profile, and facilitate the achievements of others -- or to allow others to take credit for achievements resulting from IPI efforts... the shrewd diplomatic way to make things happen in the international arena.
(A recent play about IPI President Larsen's involvement about the 1990s Oslo Peace Accords has been noted for its bringing to light the long-hidden historic role of this IPI leader in shaping a major breakthrough in Middle East peace -- a pivotal achievement thwarted by the subsequent assassination of co-signatory Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin).
If anyone knows of any major-media, or institutional, articles about IPI, itself (not just about affairs, activities and entities that IPI is connected to), please add that to the list of references.
~ Penlite (talk) 11:47, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPI is apparently vital, but obscure. 

message: In the Officers section, it's arguably worth noting that IPI's Chairman of the Board, Rita Hauser, and Vice Chairman/Secretary/Treasurer Mortimer Zuckerman, are both high-profile, noted Jewish-American conservative political activists, with apparent strong affinity for their Jewish identity and for Israel. 
(See their own Wikipedia pages, and see some of their political commentary in major media -- particularly Zuckerman's long history of public statements about Israeli affairs.)
In non-political articles, this would arguably be completely irrelevant. But this is about an organization working intimately with the United Nations, particularly on Middle East issues.
In the context of leadership of the "International Peace Institute" (which has largely focused on Middle East issues), the ethno-centricity and political history of IPI's governing officials has considerable potential bearing on the organization they rule, and its policies, priorities, advice and actions.
I'm not sure how, nor whether, to insert anything about these matters in the summary descriptions of those Officers, but I urge more experienced Wikipedia editors (preferably administrators with a high level of international affairs expertise), to assess this issue, and decide what, if anything, to do with those facts.
~ Penlite (talk) 12:17, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Officers - significance of ethnicity and politics 

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message: Despite the length and authoritative tone, this article conveys almost no information about the group whatsoever.
Can anyone with an interest source the funding source, policy objectives, membership and leadership of the group?
Also any examples of actions they have taken.
Currently this article offers little to users except confirming the existence of a group which can only be described as shadowy
--Willthewanderer (talk) 09:55, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Norwegian media (this week), it has been funded with 130 million Norwegian kroner thru the years; one of IPI's expenses has been to pay Jeffrey Epstein (as per directions of Terje Rød-Larsen), 100,000 dollars  . 89.8.190.60 (talk) 13:45, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article lacks specific content. 

message: The wiki-article seems to not have independent references in regard to the yearly "Vienna seminars"; the three references at present, has Terje Rød-Larsen as (one) author. 89.8.181.110 (talk) 14:12, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability of yearly seminar is unclear