Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • July 14, 2016
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When it comes to the United Nations, the word “debate” takes on a civilized bearing, with no relation to heated contests among many sides. Over two nights this week at different settings in New York, UN secretary-general candidates campaigning to …
- Categories: Secretary-General
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- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • March 15, 2016
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Hailing from various corners of the world, five activists gathered in New York recently to assess the progress of women’s rights globally — presenting a mixed picture of gains in Africa but threats to women’s rights through new programs countering …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Latin America, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 10, 2015
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When the United Nations’ member states gave final approval at a special General Assembly session on Sept. 25 to the new global development policy, they were making a commitment to the most wide-ranging and ambitious plan ever attempted by the …
- Categories: Development, SDGs
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- Opinion by John Torpey
- • December 3, 2014
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Is the conflict in the contemporary Muslim world so unusual, given that Christians were doing similar things 400 to 500 years ago? Is it really a phenomenon that involves “Muslims,” or is it more a matter of conflicts peculiar to …
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Opinion by Vikas Nath
- • November 20, 2013
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GENEVA — The persistence of climate change negotiators huddled together in Warsaw from over 190 countries is laudable. Even when countries are failing to reign in their greenhouse emissions that is causing a rise in global temperatures, the negotiations keep …
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Graciana del Castillo
- • October 24, 2013
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Despite the peculiarities of each particular case, when civil wars or other chaos end, countries need to address the root causes of the conflict to make the fragile peace sustainable. In this context, countries need to establish public security; to …
- Categories: Development
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 3, 2013
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As media coverage of the United Nations dwindles and becomes more hyperfocused on geopolitics, the public learns less and less about the UN itself and how it operates. Who is to blame for the decreasing, narrow coverage — the press, …
- Categories: US-UN Relations
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- Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • September 2, 2013
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“If we want things to change, some things will have to stay as they are.” This inversion of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa‘s aphorism summarizes a key finding of a recent global survey on the future development goals. A select group …
- Categories: Development
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- Stephen Browne
- • August 7, 2013
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At the end of 2012, Britain withdrew its membership from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, or Unido, the most recent of several major donor countries (including the United States and Canada) to do so. Although it has had strong …
- Categories: Development, UN Agencies
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- Ramesh Thakur
- • June 11, 2013
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The Group of 20 nations is more capable of replicating development success models than the United Nations manages to do within its own development ranks, representing a major challenge to the UN system and its second-most important agenda item after …
- Categories: Development
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- Asmita Naik
- • May 20, 2013
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As the United Nations relies more heavily on private sources of financing from foundations and corporations, it is important to look at how these changes affect the world body’s development aid channel. A new report examining how private donations to …
- Categories: Development, UN Agencies
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- Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
- • April 8, 2013
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Are the numerous United Nations regional commissions worthwhile? The first such commission sprang up in Europe, amid the aftermath of World War II, when a Polish-inspired resolution, passed by the General Assembly in 1947 to organize the recovery of the …
- Categories: Development
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 17, 2012
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The clamor for United Nations reform has not stopped since its first days in 1945. Although ideas for changing the UN rise and fall each year, the newest calls for an overhaul involve development, one of the largest sectors of …
- Categories: Development, Special Report
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 21, 2012
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The Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect has released its first issue of a bimonthly digest, the R2P Monitor, reporting on populations in countries that could be at risk to mass-atrocity crimes. The mission of the center, part of …
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
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