You can read here the article on risks for world security, which was written by Professor Emeritus and Member of the Board of Trustees of ELIAMEP Theodore Couloumbis. This commentary was published on 15 May 2016 in the Sunday edition of Kathimerini.
On Monday, May 16th, IPI hosted a Global Leaders Series presentation featuring H.E. Mr. Vuk Jeremić, candidate for the position of United Nations Secretary-General. At the event, Mr. Jeremić discussed his experience and how it informs his vision of the future of global politics and the United Nations. He addressed questions including how he would shape the job of UN Secretary-General and define his priorities in office.
In April 2016, the government of Serbia formally nominated Mr. Jeremić as a candidate for the position of UN Secretary-General. Mr. Jeremić is the President of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), a public policy think tank based in Belgrade, and Editor-in-Chief of Horizons – Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Development.
In June 2012, Mr. Jeremić was elected President of the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly by the majority of UN member states in the first contested vote since the end of the Cold War. During his term in office, he launched the negotiations that led to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
As President of the General Assembly, he facilitated the adoption of the breakthrough Arms Trade Treaty, the first legally-binding instrument in UN history to establish common standards for the international transfer of conventional armaments. Mr. Jeremić initiated several high-level thematic debates in the UN on critical issues such as climate change, education, social inequality, credit rating agencies, international criminal justice, and the peaceful resolution of conflicts in Africa.
Mr. Jeremić served as Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2012. During his tenure, he paid official visits to over 100 countries and addressed numerous international summits and conferences. In 2007, he chaired the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers. In 2011 and 2012, Mr. Jeremić led Serbia’s successful campaign for the Chairmanship-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2015.
The event was moderated by IPI Senior Adviser for External Relations Warren Hoge.
Lorsque Donald Trump s'est lancé dans la course à la présidence des Etats-Unis en juin 2015, il était crédité de 4% des intentions de vote, et personne n'a cru qu'il pourrait l'emporter. Le magnat de l'immobilier, milliardaire et star de la téléréalité, a rapidement été placé dans la catégorie "showman", celle dans laquelle on trouve les personnages hauts en couleur des campagnes présidentielles (comme Herman Cain et Michele Bachmann, en 2012, ou, cette année, Ben Carson) qui marquent leur passage d'amusantes sorties dans les débats, avant de laisser la place aux challengers plus sérieux.
Or, contre toute attente, à l'encontre des estimations de toute la classe médiatique et politique américaine et étrangère, Donald Trump a grimpé dans les sondages, lentement mais sûrement, écrasant sur son passage les nombreux candidats, gouverneurs ou sénateurs, jugés capables de l'emporter...
Article publié dans l'Express.fr, le 12 mai 2016.
On Thursday, May 12th, the Independent Commission on Multilateralism (ICM) hosted a Public Consultation on its Discussion Paper: “The Impact of New Technologies on Peace, Security, and Development.” This Public Consultation provided an opportunity for representatives from member states, civil society, the private sector, academia, and the United Nations to comment on the Discussion Paper’s recommendations, and to exchange perspectives on the larger trends and challenges.
A new wave of technology is driving rapid global change. This change has created new opportunities for multilateral cooperation in the areas of sustainable development, state-society relations, peace and conflict, international security, and global governance. Yet with these opportunities comes the challenge of keeping up; the UN and other multilateral institutions must determine where they can play a useful role in addressing and integrating new technologies into their work and where existing mechanisms and other actors may be better placed.
On sustainable development, for example, the UN has arguably come farthest in integrating new technologies into its work. The ten-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10) drew a strong link between technologies and sustainable development, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Looking to peace and conflict, new technologies can help prevent conflict by reducing the gap between warning and response, facilitate peacekeeping through new tools relevant to increasingly complex environments, and help support peacebuilding by empowering local actors. New technologies and governance of the internet, on the other hand, is an arena where the future role of multilateral actors is subject to greater debate. Whether in sustainable development, peace and conflict, state-society relations, international security, or cyberspace, new technologies have transformed how the UN and multilateral institutions operate in a 21st century world. Based on these opportunities, challenges, and multilateral responses, this Discussion Paper provides recommendations for the UN System.
This Public Consultation focused on the findings and recommendations of the Discussion Paper, which can be accessed at this link.
Discussants:
H.E. Mr. Vladimir Drobnjak, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Croatia to the United Nations
Mr. Robert Kirkpatrick, Director, United Nations Global Pulse, Executive Office of the Secretary-General
Ms. Véronique Pepin-Hallé, Senior Adviser, Independent Commission on Multilateralism
Dr. Patrick Vinck, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Moderator:
H.E. Ms. Barbara Gibson, Deputy Secretary-General, Independent Commission on Multilateralism