Hannes Swoboda comments on Israeli’s Prime Minister political agenda for the next term

The following report from Hannes Swoboda, President of the International Institute for Peace and former MEP is about the challenges and opportunities of the reconciliation on the Balkan.

On April the 4th 2019, the International Institute for Peace organized together with the Forschungsstelle für Eurasische Studie der Universität Wien (EURAS) a panel discussion on the issue of the current conflicts in the post-soviet space. The panel discussion was moderated by Angela Kane, the Vice-President of the IIP and former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and featured by the participation of Alexander Dubowy, Scientific Coordinator, Research Center for Eurasian Studies, University of Vienna and Scientific Director of the Institute for Security Policy (ISP); Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute Yerevan and Sergey Markedonov, Leading Researcher for the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security and MGIMO Institute for International Studies.

Following the event organized on March 28th on the Presidential elections in Ukraine, we had the chance to discuss further with some of the experts present on current challenges, opportunities and possible outcomes of the electoral process.

On March 28th, 2019 the International Institute for Peace organized together, with the Karl-Renner-Institut, the Competence Centre for Black Sea Region and EURAS/University of Vienna an event on the upcoming Presidential elections in Ukraine. The panel discussion was moderated by Jutta Sommerbauer, a Journalist from „die Presse“ and featured the participation of Alexander Dubowy, Centre for Eurasian Studies at the University of Vienna;  Nadiia Koval, Foreign Policy Council "Ukrainian Prism"; Johannes Leitner, Head of the Competence Center for Black Sea Region Studies, Vienna; Alena Lunyova, Human Rights Information Centre, Kiyv and Hannes Swoboda, President of the International Institute for Peace and former MEP (S&D Group), Vienna.

This morning, April 2nd, 2019 The International Institute for Peace (IIP) hosted in Vienna an expert workshop co-organized together with the Institute for National Security Strategy from Seul (South Korea).