Think-tank life: the video

by | Sep 10, 2010


What is life like inside a hot-shot New York think-tank?  What does it really feel like to, say, pick up a phone and talk to the answering machine of a mid-level UN official?

If you’ve always wanted to know the answers to these questions but never dared ask, the International Peace Institute has a video just for you.  IPI (with which I have worked on and off for some years) is 40 years old this year.  And it has just released a 15-minute video to celebrate.  It’s entitled IPI’s History As Told By Those That Lived It and you can access it here (I can’t embed it in this text).  See if you can spot all the glamorous IPI staff-members above.  It’s like Mad Men for policy wonks!

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