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.
The 2023 UN Summit of the Future will host all 193 member states, but leaders must deliberate on several areas of global concern to capitalize on this rare opportunity.
June 21, 2022
Road to 2023 proposes twenty recommendation Overviews to encourage more ambitious, forward-looking thinking and deliberation on global governance innovation leading up to the 2023 Summit of the Future proposed in Our Common Agenda.
June 17, 2022
Global Governance Innovation Network prepares for the launch of their flagship report for 2022
June 6, 2022
Nudhara Yusuf writes about the legacy and international world order the international community will leave behind
May 31, 2022
Dr. Albright coined and instituted—while serving as Permanent Representative to the UN—an “assertive multilateralist” approach that continues to inform post-cold war U.S. foreign policy.
March 30, 2022
Examining U.S. perspectives and approaches to enduring and emerging issues on the UN Security Council’s agenda.
February 15, 2022
Examining Swiss perspectives and approaches to enduring and emerging issues on the UN Security Council’s agenda.
December 17, 2021
Joint CHS-Stimson Center Policy Brief to further an experts discussion on the UN’s Changing Role in Afghanistan
December 9, 2021
