The Global Policy Dialogue on Climate Governance: Innovation the Paris Agreement & Beyond is intended as a forum to contribute ideas and capabilities to a growing transnational network for global governance renewal and innovation. It will seek …
Published October 23, 2019 / Held October 23, 2019
Some current programs do promote technology transfer and climate adaptation in the Global South, but myriad licensing and IPR laws hinder the process. To ease the transfer and implementation of green technology, the Albright-Gambari Commission rec …
This report assesses recent initiatives by the five Central Asian republics and the Afghan government to establish a role for Afghanistan’s northern neighbors, particularly Uzbekistan, as a mediator or host for Afghan peace process negotiations and to strengthen areas of economic and political cooperation in the region.
From September 2019 to June 2020 (when the UN 75 Political Declaration negotiations are expected to conclude), Stimson’s Just Security 2020 program aims to publish a series of ten global governance innovation policy briefs to focus policymakers, opinio …
With the recent adoption of the UN General Assembly Resolution (A/RES/73/299) on the consultative process toward a declaration for the 75th anniversary commemoration of the United Nations and an associated Leaders Summit, in September 2020 in New York, …
Published September 17, 2019 / Held September 26, 2019
From 26-28 August 2019, the Stimson Center’s Just Security 2020 (JS2020) program, UN 2020, Together First and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office participated in the 68th the United Nations Civil Society Conference (UNCSC), in S …
On 5-6 June 2019 in Washington, D.C., the Stimson Center, Global Challenges Foundation, One Earth Future Foundation and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office convened a Global Policy Dialogue on Global Security, Justice, and Economic Institutions. A …
On July 24, 2019, the Stimson Center, in partnership with UNA-NCA and New Story Leadership, moderated a discussion bringing together diverse perspectives from among Israeli and Palestinian youth who have first-hand experience with the UN’s work on the …
The purpose of this research commentary is to show a growing link between climate change and genocide and mass atrocities. The International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and other scientific reports describe the dire environmental effects that will …
“TWENTY GLOBAL IDEAS FOR 2020” With the proliferation of advanced military and information technologies, growing ease of movement, increasing climate instability, and the rise of violent extremism, conflict and state fragility have increased since reac …
The Global Policy Dialogue on Global Security, Justice, and Economic Institutions is designed to serve as a major vehicle to spur a transnational network for global governance renewal, innovation, and reform, using current reform proposals as points of …
In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of key natural resource enclaves in the country. With some of them threatening a return to war, these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to Liberi …
Victoria Holt (Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center and former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs) moderated the dialogue, which began initially with a conversation with Lynn Pascoe (Member, UNA-NCA Bo …
Published February 13, 2019 / Held January 17, 2019
An initiative of Stimson, the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA), the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and the United States Institute of Peace, this roundtable — held on 17 January 2019 at the Stimson Center — brought togethe …
On 17 December 2018 in Doha, Qatar, the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, the Stimson Center, and the Doha Forum convened the Global Policy Dialogue on Preventive Action, Sustaining Peace, and Glob …
The gathering provided a chance for scholars, policy-makers, practitioners, and activities to forge consensus around and identify new actions to better manage and address the root causes of protracted violent conflict worldwide. Major issue areas consi …
Organizing Democracy, a new book by Paul Poast and Johannes Urpelainen, argues that new democracies are more likely to flourish when they receive support from international organizations to help them provide public goods to their populations. This even …
Published November 28, 2018 / Held December 12, 2018
by Richard Ponzio Unlike the annual Davos World Economic Forum, where corporations predominate, or the annual Munich Security Conference, which emphasizes the world’s national security establishments, the Paris Peace Forum has fast become a premie …
The event featured remarks, on behalf of the roundtable’s co-sponsoring institutions, by the Deputy Permanent Representatives to the United Nations of Japan (H.E. Amb. Toshiya Hoshino), Qatar (H.E. Mr. Jassim Al-Maawda), and Nigeria (H.E. Amb. Samson I …
Published November 3, 2018 / Held October 29, 2018
This special luncheon roundtable discussion addressed the fundamental overarching global governance policy question: “How can humankind better manage global problems to achieve both security and justice simultaneously, or ‘just security’?” Book authors …
Published November 3, 2018 / Held October 30, 2018
by Richard Ponzio, Joris Larik and William Durch As humanity struggles with mass violence, mass migrations and the widening effect of climate change, the international system inaugurated nearly 75 years ago to manage such global problems seems to be cr …
Stimson Center, UNA National Capital Area, and the Global Challenges Foundation (GCF) are co-hosting a public discussion on the future of global governance. The aim is to reflect on lessons learned from previous reform, innovation, and renewal efforts, …
Published September 24, 2018 / Held October 11, 2018
In July, Stimson’s Just Security 2020 Program contributed to a rich set of discussions on the future of global governance, as the international community fast approaches the two-years-to-go mark for the expected Leaders Summit, in September 2020 in New …
On April 24 the Missions of Nigeria and Canada to the United Nations, the Savannah Center for Diplomacy, Democracy, and Development (Abuja), the Instituto Igarapé (Rio de Janeiro), the Alliance for Peacebuilding (Washington, D.C.), the UN 2020 Initiati …
The General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace, a historic milestone for advancing the United Nations’ work in the areas of conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and post-conflict peacebuilding, will he …
On Wednesday, April 11, 2018, the Stimson Center, along with the Alliance for Peacebuilding and United Nations Association of the National Capital Area, co-hosted a “preview conversation” with leading policy-makers, practitioners, and scholars i …
Download the Event Audio and Photos Here Watch the previously recorded livestream at the bottom of the webpage. From North Africa and the Middle East to South Sudan, Ukraine, and Afghanistan, the past severa …
Just Security in an Undergoverned World examines how humankind can manage global problems to achieve both security and justice in an age of antithesis. Global connectivity is increasing, visibly and invisibly-in trade, finance, culture, and inform …
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ much anticipated Report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace was recently released, in the lead-up to the U.N. General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace to be held Apri …
Download the Event Audio, and Photos Here Watch the previously recorded livestream at the bottom of the webpage. The new SDG16 Progress Report focuses on methodology and challenges around measuring …
Published January 16, 2018 / Held January 24, 2018
