As the world confronts myriad, interconnected challenges—from ending civil wars and extreme poverty to combating climate change and information warfare—the very concept of global collective action is in question. At the same time, the world faces a severe, and widening, governance deficit as our system of global governance is continually asked to do more with less. In addition to multiple challenges and obstacles to deliver justice and security across the globe, the current system is under attack by resurgent nationalism, protectionism, and critiques of the multilateral system’s legitimacy. Stimson’s Global Governance, Justice & Security Program (GGJustSec) aims to advance more capable global and regional institutions to better cope with existing and emerging global challenges and to create new opportunities through effective multilateral action, including with the global business community and civil society.
The Global Governance, Justice & Security program contributes timely knowledge products to an intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder conversation to produce meaningful changes in the international system. It builds directly on major milestones achieved by the Albright-Gambari Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance (2014-2016) and Stimson’s Just Security 2020 Program (2016-2020), in addition to closely collaborating with the Coalition for the UN We Need, Together First, and Alliance for Multilateralism. Through a combination of policy dialogues, research and analysis, and online network-building, the program engages stakeholders to create change through four major (project-level) work streams.
It is critical that the Nairobi civil society conference be impactful and innovative with an eye toward implementation and leadership
April 26, 2024
This year’s CSW outcome report fails to acknowledge the need to rethink institutions to mitigate the feminization of poverty and the unfavorable status of women
April 24, 2024
Arguing that no further significant UN reforms are possible without amending the UN Charter and eliminating the right of the veto in the Security Council
April 12, 2024
Demonstrating how international organizations, also outside the United Nations (UN) system, can progress and reach multilateral agreements with the UN Secretary General’s Our Common Agenda report (OCA)
April 11, 2024
Discussing the effectiveness of international measures aimed at preventing corruption and money laundering
April 10, 2024
Efforts to develop a Pact for the Future and a Global Digital Compact offer reason to hope for real progress on peacebuilding and AI governance this year
March 26, 2024
A hybrid press briefing featuring Co-Chairs Nudhara Yusuf and Carole Agengo at the UN Headquarters to announce the 2024 UN Civil Society Conference
March 26, 2024
There is a real risk that the phrase "future generations" becomes a hollow refrain and a point of contention between developed and developing countries
March 18, 2024
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