International Peace Academy (IPA) is an independent, international institution dedicated to promoting the prevention and settlement of armed conflicts between and within states through policy research and development.
Programme areas include:
- peacebuilding and peace implementation
- conflict prevention
- economic agendas in civil wars
- efficacy and impact of sanctions
- civilians in war
- UN-NATO relations
- transitional administrations
- the UN and international terrorism
- the security-development nexus
- state-building