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Tapio Kanninen

Tapio Kanninen is president of the Global Crisis Information Network and former chief of policy planning for the UN Department of Political Affairs, from 1998 to 2005. He was also secretary of the General Assembly's Open-Ended Working Group on the Reform of the Security Council and secretary and research focal point of the high-level drafting group of Boutros Boutros-Ghali's "An Agenda for Peace" report.

OPINIONS

How to Move From Hostility to Cooperation in the UN Security Council

Opinion by Tapio Kanninen and Heikki Talvitie
• November 21, 2022

Globalization, with its pros and cons, is broken. The world is troubled by local and regional crises, and attempts to solve them are dividing countries, both small and large, in a way that prevents a common will from emerging to …