Dali ten Hove
Dali ten Hove writes for PassBlue in his personal capacity. He is a reporting officer in the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was the researcher on the memoir of former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, "Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World." He also was part of the UN's 75th-anniversary team. He has worked in peace-building with Cordaid in The Hague and has served on the boards of the UN Associations of the Netherlands and the UK and has consulted for the World Federation of UNAs. He has a master's degree in international relations from Oxford University.
- Dali ten Hove
- • August 1, 2021
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As the world inches closer to catastrophic global heating and vulnerable communities from Mali to Myanmar are already suffering the consequences, the United Nations Refugee Agency has been grappling with the growing role of climate change as a driver…
- Categories: Human Rights, Refugees, US Foreign Relations
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- Dali ten Hove
- • May 3, 2021
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The job of United Nations secretary-general is the “most impossible on earth,” as the first postholder, Trygve Lie, famously told his successor, Dag Hammarskjold. Though Lie spoke partly in jest to amuse the assembled reporters, the remark has stuck…
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- Dali ten Hove
- • April 21, 2021
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A high-powered cast of former senior United Nations mediators from the Middle East and North Africa have founded a conflict-resolution organization, the International Center for Dialogue Initiatives, or ICDI, to mitigate the failures of foreign peace brokers and enable…
- Categories: Libya, Middle East
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- Dali ten Hove
- • January 22, 2021
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THE HAGUE — An international agreement that bans nuclear weapons became operational on Jan. 22, more than 75 years after the detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki heralded the atomic age. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, or…
- Categories: Disarmament, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace and Security, US-UN Relations
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- Dali ten Hove
- • December 11, 2020
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HAARLEM, The Netherlands — A group of young advisers has been counseling United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on climate change as he ramps up warnings of impending “climate calamity” and declares that protecting nature is the “defining task of…
- Categories: Climate Change, Secretary-General
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- Dali ten Hove
- • May 10, 2020
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After six weeks of negotiations, the United States shot down hopes for a resolution to be approved in the United Nations Security Council on May 8, refusing to back worldwide cease-fires as the US continues to castigate China and…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Dali ten Hove
- • April 16, 2020
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The much-anticipated biopic among United Nations watchers, “Sergio,” a drama relating the tale of Sergio Vieira de Mello, opened today on Netflix. It features the actors Wagner Moura as Sergio and Ana de Armas as his partner, Carolina Larriera….
- Categories: Covid-19, UN Diplomats
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- Opinion by Dali ten Hove
- • October 25, 2018
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The status of young people around the world is gaining traction at the United Nations. In September, it introduced a strategy called Youth 2030, its end date coinciding with the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN’s main plan for global development….
- Categories: OPINIONS, UN Special Envoys
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- Dali ten Hove
- • September 4, 2016
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The United Nations Human Rights Council will soon choose five new experts to monitor various human-rights topics, with nominees put forth by the council’s president. One top candidate, on torture, has stirred up controversy, and recently, his candidacy was…
- Categories: Human Rights
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- Dali ten Hove
- • August 22, 2016
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As the African Union ambitiously strives to end conflict and “silence the guns,” as it says, by 2020 amid rising instability across the continent, a new review by the World Peace Foundation on peacemaking efforts lays out how the…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, UN Peacekeeping
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