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• UN 75 (UN2020-TF) Promotion at the 68th UN-Civil Society Conference — September 13, 2019

  From 26-28 August 2019, the Stimson Center’s Just Security 2020 (JS2020) program, UN 2020, Together First and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office participated in the 68th the United Nations Civil Society Conference (UNCSC), in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Centered around the theme “Building Inclusive and Sustainable Cities and Communities”, the conference enjoyed the participation … Continued

• Global Policy Dialogue advances Global Governance Modernization Agenda on the Road to 2020 — August 25, 2019

    On 5-6 June 2019 in Washington, D.C., the Stimson Center, Global Challenges Foundation, One Earth Future Foundation and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office convened a Global Policy Dialogue on Global Security, Justice, and Economic Institutions. Among other luminaries, the gathering featured the President of the General Assembly María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, former U.S. Secretary of … Continued

• Launch of An Innovation Agenda for UN 75: The Albright-Gambari Commission Report and the Road to 2020 — June 11, 2019

  The world needs a new kind of leadership and vision, combined with new norms, tools, and institutions.

• Doha Global Policy Dialogue seeks to advance Preventive Action and Sustaining Peace efforts on the Road to 2020 — February 13, 2019

  On 17 December 2018 in Doha, Qatar, the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies of the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, the Stimson Center, and the Doha Forum convened the Global Policy Dialogue on Preventive Action, Sustaining Peace, and Global Governance, which coincided with the 18th edition of the Doha Forum from 15 to 16 … Continued

• The Future of UN Mediation, Peacebuilding, Sanctions, and Special Envoys — February 13, 2019

  An initiative of Stimson, the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA), the Alliance for Peacebuilding, and the United States Institute of Peace, this roundtable — held on 17 January 2019 at the Stimson Center — brought together former and current U.S. government and UN officials, scholars, policy analysts, activists, and practitioners to … Continued

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• Just Security in an Undergoverned World — March 25, 2018

  Just Security in an Undergoverned World examines how humankind can manage global problems to achieve both security and justice in an age of antithesis. Global connectivity is increasing, visibly and invisibly-in trade, finance, culture, and information-helping to spur economic growth, technological advance, and greater understanding and freedom, but global disconnects are growing as well. Ubiquitous electronics … Continued

• The UN’s new “Sustaining Peace” Agenda: A Policy Breakthrough in the Making — February 23, 2018

  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ much-anticipated Report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace was recently released, in the lead-up to the U.N. General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace to be held April 24-25 2018 in New York, in accordance with the U.N. General Assembly and Security Council “peacebuilding resolutions” (A/RES/70/262 and S/RES/ 2282). Breaking new ground … Continued

• Regional Dialogues on Sustaining Peace: Shaping UN Strategies for 2018 and Beyond — July 14, 2017

  7 July 2017 – New York: The Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations, the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy & Development, and the Stimson Center convened an informal scoping discussion at Columbia University Law School with members of the UN Group of Friends for Sustaining Peace on a series of … Continued