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- Noeleen Heyzer
- • March 9, 2021
SINGAPORE — The situation in Myanmar is growing more violent and polarized. If the situation continues without urgent intervention, the safety and security of civilians will deteriorate rapidly and a window for dialogue between the military and Daw Aung…
- Categories: Myanmar, Responsibility to Protect, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Irwin Arieff
- • December 3, 2016
Evidence is piling up: the global security framework that emerged from the ashes of World War II is no longer capable of pursuing international peace. The arrangement, conceived by the major powers that won the war, has expanded into…
- Categories: BOOKS, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council
- Adam Roberts
- • March 9, 2016
OXFORD, England — The United Nations is going through one of its many difficult periods — so far as its central task of maintaining international peace and security is concerned. In Syria since 2011 and Ukraine since 2014, the…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Lucia Mouat
- • January 21, 2015
The post of United Nations secretary-general may or may not be “the world’s most impossible job,” as its first occupant, Trygve Lie, a Norwegian, once described it. In any case, UN members must choose a successor to Secretary-General Ban…
- Categories: Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 13, 2015
By almost every measure, this year will be monumental for the United Nations. The organization will be 70 years old and that will inspire, as anniversaries always do, a lot of stocktaking, analysis and, of course, criticism. Past stumbles…
- Categories: Governance, LGBT, SDGs, Women
- A. Edward Elmendorf
- • January 19, 2014
Jan Eliasson has been the deputy secretary-general of the United Nations since July 2012, the second in command after Ban Ki-moon. Eliasson, 73, is a former Swedish foreign minister and was ambassador to the United States twice, among other…
- Categories: Development, Peace and Security
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 20, 2012
The new creation of a national Syrian coalition to make the opposition groups more coherent could propel a much-needed breakthrough in the country’s 20-month civil war, Jean-Marie Guéhenno a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, told…
- Categories: Middle East, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 16, 2012
Edward Luck, who has been the special adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the responsibility to protect doctrine within the prevention of genocide office since 2008, will become the dean of the Joan B. Kroc School…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 21, 2012
When the carnage of the 1990s wound down, with more than a million people dead in massacres and brutal ethnic or political wars in and around Rwanda, the Balkans and elsewhere, nations that had failed to act to stop…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Responsibility to Protect, Security Council
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