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.
Discussing solutions for addressing the intersection between climate change, biodiversity and nature loss, and pollution and waste
January 20, 2023
For more than a decade arms control has been under stiff pressure.
October 31, 2022
For the Summit of the Future to succeed, it will need to produce a meaningful Declaration on Future Generations, a comprehensive Global Digital Compact, and a New Agenda for Peace.
October 21, 2022
Exploring the Declaration on Future Generations, a New Agenda for Peace, and a Global Digital Compact.
September 19, 2022
Responsibility Chains refer to the interconnected sets of socio-environmental relations that link commodity producers to consumers.
September 13, 2022
This session, the third in a series of monthly dialogues related to Our Common Agenda, explored how best to answer the call of the Secretary-General to “put humanity at the centre of technology.”
August 3, 2022
This hybrid meeting in Geneva on Charter Day discussed and debated whether the current UN Charter is fit to serve its stated main purposes, and if not, how this could be addressed.
August 3, 2022
The report contributes to the analytical underpinnings and design of three policy frameworks with the aim of enhancing collaborative collective action on the tracks of the Secretary General’s proposed Summit of the Future.
July 22, 2022
