The Settlement of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan
A refugee is a person fleeing her/his country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution because of race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group or political opinion. Close to 4 million Afghani refugees left their country as a result of...Saving the Climate Crisis with a new Border Carbon Adjustment proposal
During the summer, the Graduate Institute held the lecture “Does our Alarming Climate Crisis Demand Border Adjustments Now?” by John S. Odell, Professor Emeritus of International Relations with the University of Southern California, who researches the governance of...Disarmament that saves lives
‘Disarmament that saves lives’ was the second event of a series organized to build on the Secretary-General’s Disarmament Agenda ‘Securing our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament’. This town hall-oriented initiative aimed at taking forward the...
Research Findings: Investigating Twiplomacy
NOTE: This post was written by Dylan Ashdown, Ana Figueiredo, Mia Riley, and Alyssa Pack. Dylan Ashdown is a Dual MA student in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations pursuing a MA in Diplomacy and International Relations and a MA in Strategic...
UN News Centre – Top Stories
- With security improving in DR Congo’s Kasai, thousands of refugees head home from Angola August 23, 2019
- Friday’s Daily Brief: Education in Africa, Sudan flash-floods, WHO on Ebola, spike in South Sudan violence, Rwanda, Uganda move to normalize relations August 23, 2019
- South Sudan: UN rights experts see little headway on peace deal amid spike in local-level violence August 23, 2019
- School closures triple in Central and Western Africa as education comes under fire August 23, 2019
- Myanmar military committed ‘routine, systematic’ sexual violence against ethnic minorities, UN experts find August 22, 2019