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.
A reflection on lessons learned from the SDG Summit's Political Declaration 2023 for the road ahead
December 18, 2023
At Paris Peace Forum 2023, experts explored questions on improved global management of artificial intelligence
December 15, 2023
At the 2023 Doha Forum, this session featuring the Climate Governance Commission considered how addressing the global challenge of climate change requires coordinated international governance.
December 11, 2023
At the 2023 Doha Forum, Stimson experts discuss upstream and downstream data regulation for AI
December 11, 2023
Climate COP reform, declaration of planetary emergency, and establishment of an international court for the environment among the urgent actions the Commission calls for in the next 1-5 years.
November 28, 2023
The world has already overshot six of nine scientifically identified Planetary Boundaries and is now facing a deepening planetary emergency
November 27, 2023
Authors from Stimson and the Permanent Missions of Ireland and Qatar (co-facilitators of the SDG Summit) de-brief on the SDG Summit
October 11, 2023
Nudhara Yusuf unpacks what makes UNGA 78 so important
September 18, 2023
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