Common Sense on Iran
…bomb ever since Israel’s then-foreign minister Shimon Peres warned in 1992 that Iran, “would be armed with a nuclear bomb by 1999.” It was reassuring to my audiences to learn…
Albright, Gambari Commission Calls For Major UN Reforms on Climate, Cyber, Conflict Recommendations Come in Advance of UN’s 70th Anniversary in September
…Forum; Celso Amorim — Former Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Relations of Brazil; Lloyd Axworthy — Former Foreign Minister of Canada; Ibrahim Gambari —Former Nigerian Foreign Minister and…
Strengthening Human Rights: Translating Multilateral Commitments into Action
…gender-responsive policies. Our research found that member states could seek to address these obstacles and leverage opportunities by focusing on greater information sharing, awareness raising, and communication; increased efficacy of…
Forward Together: Women, Peace, & Security & Human Security at NATO
…2012), https://www.unocha.org/sites/dms/HSU/Publications%20and%20Products/GA%20Resolutions%20and%20Debate%20Summaries/GA%20Resolutions.pdf. According to the UN, ensuring that decisions are people-centered, comprehensive, context-specific, and prevention-oriented leads to HS. Human Security is thus focused on human beings and should be continuously…
Obama’s “reactive” Asia trip
…of State for East Asia and Pacific), both of whom were considered the drivers of the rebalance. As such, the conceptual framework of the trip itself, a responsive attempt to…
Future of International Cooperation Report 2025
…peoples, and youth-led green startups. Taking pooled regional investment funds to greater scale would enable fairer concessional financing, more responsive development cooperation (including through new social metrics like gender pay…
Theater Missile Defenses in the Asia-Pacific Region
A Henry L. Stimson Center Working Group Report. June 2000. U.S. policy choices toward TMD in the Asia-Pacific region must be acutely mindful of the pitfalls associated with missile defense…
Aditi Gorur’s op-ed on relations between peacekeepers and afflicted communities published in IOC
Organisations working on conflict prevention and peacebuilding increasingly understand the importance of making their programmes responsive to the communities with which they work. That means that they need to engage…