2018 will be a crucial year for the United Nations in its efforts to address fundamental peace and security challenges of a rapidly changing world. Central to the 2016 peacebuilding resolutions of the U.N. General Assembly and Security Council (A/RES/7 …
On Friday, September 8 at Stimson, in an event co-sponsored with the Center for Global Development, Arunabha Ghosh (Founding CEO of the New Delhi-based Council on Energy, Environment, and Water) and Richard Ponzio (Director of Stimson’s Just Security 2 …
North Korea has warned that US President Donald Trump’s bellicose remarks against the Asian country and its leader will make the US mainland an “inevitable” target for rocket attacks. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho’s remarks on Satu …
President Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations has drawn predictable mixed reactions. The North Korean delegation walked out as he began, leaving only a junior diplomat present. Venezuela’s foreign minister rejected “threats” from the “racist” M …
By Richard Ponzio and Michael Schroeder Today the U.S. president will preside over a high-level meeting on United Nations reform on the sidelines of the annual General Assembly meetings in New York. It holds out promise for urgently needed reform …
By Richard Ponzio and Michael Schroeder With the recent election of António Guterres as the next United Nations Secretary-General, the focus will soon shift to the next Secretary-General’s reform priorities, with a particular emphasis on how he should …
Mobilizing Smart Coalitions and Negotiating Global Governance Reform Drawing lessons from three international commissions and two international campaigns since the mid-1990s, Tom Buitelaar and Richard Ponzio, Director of the Just Security 2020 Program, …
7 July 2017 – New York: The Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations, the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy & Development, and the Stimson Center convened an informal scoping discussion at Columbia University Law School …
Watch the event video below or click here. The Stimson Center hosted a forum on the Independent Commission on Multilateralism’s (ICM) groundbreaking report Pulling Together: The Multilateral System and Its Future with Adam Lu …
Published January 18, 2017 / Held February 2, 2017
Major highlights include: Featured speaker at the high-level Sustainable Development Goal #16 event, held on 22 September 2016 at the United Nations, on “Peaceful, Just, and Inclusive Societies for Sustainable Development: Delivering on the 2030 Agenda …
Published December 20, 2016 / Held December 20, 2016
Watch the event video below or click here. Mandated to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” and to seek a “life in larger freedom”, the United Nations has helped the world succeed in halving extreme global poverty, slowing the spread o …
Published October 17, 2016 / Held October 24, 2016
Professor Ibrahim Gambari (Co-Chair of the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance) addressed the Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS)
William Durch, Joris Larik, and Richard Ponzio’s article “Just Security and the Crisis of Global Governance” is published in the August-September 2016 issue of the IISS policy journal Survival. It considers how the intersection of justice and security— …
To mark the one-year anniversary of the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance report that concluded that the U.N. must reform to address modern threats, UAE Permanent Representative to the U.N. Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh and form …
The Stimson Center and The Hague Institute for Global Justice teamed up in 2014 to address critical global issues at the intersection of security and justice and build effective responses to them. To these ends, the two institutions built a major …
The Commission Report launch has generated, thus far, over 430 media-related stories (print, TV, and radio) in 30 countries and 9 languages across 6 continent. Click here for Outreach Events. Click here for Earlier Consultations …
To strengthen the intellectual foundations for this project and inform the work of the Commission in crafting its reform agenda, The Hague Institute and The Stimson Center have commissioned more than 20 background papers to be authored by the memb …
The Hague Institute for Global Justice and The Stimson Center, based in Washington, D.C., view the intersection of security and justice as critical to understanding and addressing common global threats and challenges, the effective management of which …
Peacekeeping is one of the cornerstones of the United Nations and was, is and will be an essential tool for creating lasting peace in war-torn societies. The international system has changed in many ways since the first deployment of peacekeepers in 19 …
By Richard Ponzio and William Durch As the world commemorates Earth Day today, April 22, it is useful to take stock of the progress made in tackling the preeminent global environmental challenge of our time: climate change. Remarkably, last December in …
UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which was adopted in 2000, recognised, for the first time, the vital contribution of women to conflict prevention and resolution. As a symbolic act and practical call to action, the UN resolution acknowledged what w …
U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 (adopted in 2000) recognised, for the first time, the vital contribution of women to conflict prevention and resolution. As a symbolic act and practical call to action, the resolution acknowledged what w …
Women remain acutely underrepresented in UN-brokered peace talks despite the fact that sixteen years ago their participation was recognized in a UN Security Council Resolution (1325) as being of vital importance. For Haifa Fahoum Al-Kaylani, Founder Ch …
Later this year, the international community will select the next United Nations Secretary-General. More accurately, per Article 97 of the UN Charter: “The Secretary-General shall be appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Secu …
Hunger and starvation are in the news again, this time in Syria. They shouldn’t be. For decades, the world has produced more than enough food to feed every man, woman, and child. Yet today, 16 years past the due date for ending hunger, w …
In 2015, world leaders agreed to bold, results-driven United Nations action plans at the Addis Conference on Financing for Development in July, the New York Summit on Sustainable Development in September, and the Paris Climate Change Conference in Dece …
On Thursday, December 3, the Rector of United Nations University, Dr. David Malone, hosted and moderated a public launch event in Tokyo for the report of the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance. On behalf of the Commissio …
Presenting the findings and recommendations from the “Confronting the Crisis of Global Governance” report and engaged in a dialogue with experts from the Tokyo policy, research, and NGO communities.
