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Europe, Central and Eastern Europe Youth Exodus: Emigration, Nationalism, and the Fight for Progress in Bosnia and Herzego...
The European Union has just witnessed a strong surge in support for far-right and nationalist parties in the June 2024 EU Parliament elections. Parties such as France’s National Rally, Germany...
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Ukraine Political theatre of the absurd: Ukraine Peace Conference in the Swiss Alps
By Richard Kinley and Georgios Kostakos
In a few days’ time, high up in the Swiss mountains, where the glaciers are melting faster than ever before, there will be a “peace conference” of the most ambitious kind. It won’t be about cl...
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Europe, EU “Behaving Like a Member-State”: The Italy-Albania Migration Deal
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has long created an image of herself as being a “champion” of the Italian far-right when it comes to issues of migration. Having campaigned and won, in part, beca...
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UN Peace and sustainability go together
H.E. The President of the GA* Ambassador Dennis Francis UN New York Your Excellency, As a former UN staff member I participate in an informal Peacemaking Reflection Group (PRG), which follow...
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Global Governance Inclusive Global Governance for a Peaceful and Resilient World: A Thought Note*
By Paola Bettelli and Georgios Kostakos and Yoriko Yasukawa
It is broadly accepted that business as usual is not enough to effectively address the urgent global crises confronting humanity today, which range from wars of the traditional, geopolitical k...
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UN The Role of International Geneva in the UN 2.0
Those who believe in the need for a stronger and more efficient UN are increasingly concerned about its future. The whole humanity should be concerned. The horizon shows growing selfish nation...
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Europe, Central and Eastern Europe Youth Exodus: Emigration, Nationalism, and the Fight for Progress in Bosnia and Herzego...
The European Union has just witnessed a strong surge in support for far-right and nationalist parties in the June 2024 EU Parliament elections. Parties such as France’s National Rally, Germany...
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Ukraine Political theatre of the absurd: Ukraine Peace Conference in the Swiss Alps
In a few days’ time, high up in the Swiss mountains, where the glaciers are melting faster than ever before, there will be a “peace conference” of the most ambitious kind. It won’t be about cl...
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Europe, EU “Behaving Like a Member-State”: The Italy-Albania Migration Deal
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has long created an image of herself as being a “champion” of the Italian far-right when it comes to issues of migration. Having campaigned and won, in part, beca...
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UN Peace and sustainability go together
H.E. The President of the GA* Ambassador Dennis Francis UN New York Your Excellency, As a former UN staff member I participate in an informal Peacemaking Reflection Group (PRG), which follow...
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Global Governance Inclusive Global Governance for a Peaceful and Resilient World: A Thought Note*
It is broadly accepted that business as usual is not enough to effectively address the urgent global crises confronting humanity today, which range from wars of the traditional, geopolitical k...
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UN The Role of International Geneva in the UN 2.0
Those who believe in the need for a stronger and more efficient UN are increasingly concerned about its future. The whole humanity should be concerned. The horizon shows growing selfish nation...
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Africa The Nexus Between Narcoterrorism and Jihadism in the West Africa Sahel
The Sahara and the West Sahel region of Africa have long captured the Western imagination, known for their vast landscapes and rich cultural heritage. However, in recent decades, these areas h...
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Russia, World, India, Peace & Security, Foreign Affairs BRICS: Navigating a Complex Economic and Political Landscape
Initially formed as “BRIC” – Brazil, Russia, India, China – and subsequently becoming “BRICS”, with the addition of South Africa,[1] this group of countries constitutes a unique coalition of e...
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Europe, Politics The (dis)United Kingdom: Nationalism and Independence Across the UK
On July 4th, 2024, about half of all adults in the United Kingdom turned out to vote, the lowest turnout since universal suffrage was introduced in 1918, according to an Institute for Public P...
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World, Foreign Affairs The Birth of the Confederated Alliance of the Sahel States
On Saturday, 6 July 2024, in Niamey, capital of Niger, during the first meeting of the Alliance of Sahel States[1] (ASS/AES) a new agreement was signed to mark the beginning of the Confederate...
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World, Environment The Hidden Crisis of Lake Chad: How Environmental Degradation Fuels Boko Haram
Situated in Central Africa, Lake Chad was once a flourishing freshwater reservoir that sustained the lives of more than 30 million people across Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria. However, the...
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Middle East, Peace & Security, World The Iran Nuclear Deal – A Missed Opportunity ?
After twenty months of multilateral negotiations, the Iran nuclear deal, formally called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was signed in Vienna on 14 July 2015. The signatories were,...
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Africa The Nexus Between Narcoterrorism and Jihadism in the West Africa Sahel
The Sahara and the West Sahel region of Africa have long captured the Western imagination, known for their vast landscapes and rich cultural heritage. However, in recent decades, these areas h...
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Russia, World, India, Peace & Security, Foreign Affairs BRICS: Navigating a Complex Economic and Political Landscape
Initially formed as “BRIC” – Brazil, Russia, India, China – and subsequently becoming “BRICS”, with the addition of South Africa,[1] this group of countries constitutes a unique coalition of e...
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Europe, Politics The (dis)United Kingdom: Nationalism and Independence Across the UK
On July 4th, 2024, about half of all adults in the United Kingdom turned out to vote, the lowest turnout since universal suffrage was introduced in 1918, according to an Institute for Public P...
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World, Foreign Affairs The Birth of the Confederated Alliance of the Sahel States
On Saturday, 6 July 2024, in Niamey, capital of Niger, during the first meeting of the Alliance of Sahel States[1] (ASS/AES) a new agreement was signed to mark the beginning of the Confederate...
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World, Environment The Hidden Crisis of Lake Chad: How Environmental Degradation Fuels Boko Haram
Situated in Central Africa, Lake Chad was once a flourishing freshwater reservoir that sustained the lives of more than 30 million people across Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria. However, the...
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Middle East, Peace & Security, World The Iran Nuclear Deal – A Missed Opportunity ?
After twenty months of multilateral negotiations, the Iran nuclear deal, formally called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was signed in Vienna on 14 July 2015. The signatories were,...
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Citizen Correspondent Reflections on the Politics of Race and Language in a French Classroom
It was mid-June when the summer heat that had already settled over Paris hadn’t yet reached Normandy, when my coworker invited me to his house to celebrate his birthday. It wasn’t a big event ...
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Citizen Correspondent A European in Brexit Britain
If I had a Euro for every time I’ve heard phrases like “we don’t mean people like you” or “you’ll be fine” or “nothing will change” in relation to Brexit, I would be a very wealthy lady by now...
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The invisible ones: people with disabilities in Latin America
“I feel the pandemic has highlighted the invisibility of people with disabilities,” said the mother of Luigi Gabriel, a 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. Throughout history, it has been prov...
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Op-ed Jimmy Carter: A Legacy of Leadership and Humanity
By Jordan Ryan
The passing of U.S. President Jimmy Carter marks a moment to reflect on the life of a remarkable individual and the style of leadership he embodied—one defined not by the pursuit of power or p...
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Op-ed Syria in transition – will past mistakes be avoided?
Friday, 13 December 2024 was celebrated as Victory Day by Syrians in Damascus and other parts of the war-torn country. After fourteen years of bloody civil war, this was a surprising new turn ...
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Editorials Stop the MADness of communal hatred and violence
The anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas and other militant Palestinian factions on southern Israel from Gaza finds the Middle East in a state of generalized warfare, which threat...
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Op-ed A war without winners, and a possible way out
The news just broke today, 28 September 2024, that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had been killed in a massive Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut the previous evening. Apparen...
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Op-ed Expediency, brinkmanship and the absence of global leadership
Those of us worried about the state of the world and the explosive convergence of crises of military and non-military nature, cannot but be increasingly concerned by the expediency and brinkma...
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Op-ed A world in disarray – we can do better than this
America’s last chance to lead Yesterday, 9 December, was the International Day of Commemoration & Dignity of Victims of the Crime of Genocide & Prevention of this Crime. Yet, the international...
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Editorials Call it whatever you want – just stop the killing
Armistice Day is approaching, 11 November, the day that guns fell silent marking the end of the First World War in 1918. As we know, that was not the end of all wars, as much as the millions w...
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Op-ed Israel-Palestine: A monumental failure of leadership and humanity
The carnage in Israel and the Gaza Strip seems to have no end, with hundreds if not thousands of fatalities on both sides and a region ready to explode. Who is to blame and how can this end? P...
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World, Global Governance, UN Global Resilience (Council) – If not now, when?
It has been a hot, unbearable summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Wherever the temperatures are not breaking new records and the forest fires are not filling the air with suffocating smoke and ...
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Op-ed Jimmy Carter: A Legacy of Leadership and Humanity
By Jordan Ryan
The passing of U.S. President Jimmy Carter marks a moment to reflect on the life of a remarkable individual and the style of leadership he embodied—one defined not by the pursuit of power or p...
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Op-ed Syria in transition – will past mistakes be avoided?
Friday, 13 December 2024 was celebrated as Victory Day by Syrians in Damascus and other parts of the war-torn country. After fourteen years of bloody civil war, this was a surprising new turn ...
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Editorials Stop the MADness of communal hatred and violence
The anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas and other militant Palestinian factions on southern Israel from Gaza finds the Middle East in a state of generalized warfare, which threat...
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Op-ed A war without winners, and a possible way out
The news just broke today, 28 September 2024, that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had been killed in a massive Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut the previous evening. Apparen...
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Op-ed Expediency, brinkmanship and the absence of global leadership
Those of us worried about the state of the world and the explosive convergence of crises of military and non-military nature, cannot but be increasingly concerned by the expediency and brinkma...
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Op-ed A world in disarray – we can do better than this
America’s last chance to lead Yesterday, 9 December, was the International Day of Commemoration & Dignity of Victims of the Crime of Genocide & Prevention of this Crime. Yet, the international...
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Editorials Call it whatever you want – just stop the killing
Armistice Day is approaching, 11 November, the day that guns fell silent marking the end of the First World War in 1918. As we know, that was not the end of all wars, as much as the millions w...
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Op-ed Israel-Palestine: A monumental failure of leadership and humanity
The carnage in Israel and the Gaza Strip seems to have no end, with hundreds if not thousands of fatalities on both sides and a region ready to explode. Who is to blame and how can this end? P...
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World, Global Governance, UN Global Resilience (Council) – If not now, when?
It has been a hot, unbearable summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Wherever the temperatures are not breaking new records and the forest fires are not filling the air with suffocating smoke and ...
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UN75+25: The Pandemic as another Chance for Opening towards Omnilateralism?
Calculations by the London School of Economics show it clearly. If early on Wuhan could have directly informed a truly “global health organisation” and the epidemic thus been restricted to its...
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UN75+25: A history model for a model future
The United Nations (UN) is formed by the so-called Member States that assemble to promote both world peace and world unity. However, despite humanitarian actions to help nations that suffer fr...
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UN75+25: For a future that does not choose economy over life
We are living in dark times because of the pandemic of COVID-19, which has been affecting many structures of society. Many of the social and economic problems, though, are a historical phenome...
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Artist of the Month Zoe Zeniodi: Maestra of music and social cohesion
Zoe Zeniodi is a conductor from Athens, Greece. She has enjoyed a long and successful career in the world of music, initially as a pianist, but mainly as an acclaimed conductor. She has worked...
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