Opinion – It’s Time to Redefine Gender Mainstreaming
The UN and other organizations need to redefine gender mainstreaming to reflect current knowledge and avoid the creation of more injustices or inequities.
Opinion – Fears and Failures: Global Governance and the Crisis in Cameroon
What makes people defend a prevailing system which is deeply flawed? Fear. Fear that power may be exercised in a manner they do not agree with, that freedoms may be lost.
The Responsibility to Protect in 2020: Thinking Beyond the UN Security Council
The break down in multilateralism forces us to think more expansively about how protection and prevention initiatives can be delivered and supported.
The Case of UN Involvement in Jammu and Kashmir
The Security Council limited the Kashmiri people to accession into either India or Pakistan, in fact privileging another norm: the existing sovereign state’s rights.
The United Nations, Self-Determination, State Failure and Secession
Secessionist states are unlikely to gain membership as the principle of territorial integrity holds primacy, initially showing it to be a foe to self-determination.
Opinion – Sustainability for the Urban Poor Beyond COVID-19
The ‘win-win’ scenario for governments, the urban poor, as well as private players is likely to emerge if public private partnership models are adopted.
Intergenerational Justice and the Paris Agreement
With a broad recognition of climate change as a problematic issue area, a better response needs to be developed while keeping intergenerational justice in mind.
The United Nations’ COVID-19 Dilemmas: Towards a Budgetary Crisis?
Unless major states overcome their opposing interests the positive effects of the additional money that comes in will be washed away by geopolitics.
The Limits of Control? Conducting Fieldwork at the United Nations
We should strive for greater transparency in acknowledging the complexity of our fields, as well as the confusion our own situatedness can cause in the research process.
Self-Determination as Resistance: Sahrawi and Palestinian Struggle for the UN
Officials and activists interviewed from both Palestine and Western Sahara affirm that despite their commitment to diplomacy, self-determination is non-negotiable.
