Global Action to Prevent War

03/09/2015

"Youth can provide counter narratives to extremist recruitment strategies through social media campaigns and digital diplomacy, becoming ‘boots’ deployed in the battle for cyberspace."

Editor's Note: This piece from our Human Rights Fellow, Karin Perro, continues a GAPW commitment to the engagement of youth from diverse social and cultural contexts on matters of global policy. P...

09/24/2014

You can watch Emma's UN Women speech in its entirety, here: http://youtu.be/Q0Dg226G2Z8

Men, please stand up for gender equality and register your support at www.heforshe.org

UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador, Emma Watson, delivers her moving remarks during the HeForShe Special Event at United Nations Headquarters in New York on...

01/31/2014

Global Action's legal adviser Melina Lito composed a piece about the "Rule of Law in the Disarmament Discourse".

"The UN Secretary-General (SG) maintains that rule of law is “a principle of governance in which all persons, institutions and entities, public and private, including the State itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated, and which are consistent with international human rights norms and standards.”

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01/30/2014

Global Action's media consultant Lia Petridis Maiello recently published an interview with the current General Assembly President John Ashe on climate change.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lia-petridis/ungeneralassembly-preside_b_4640779.html

The sitting president of the 68th United Nations General Assembly John Ashe, a trained bioengineer from the Caribbean islands Antigua and Barbuda, has for a long time dedicated his energy and expertise to the causes of climate change and sustainability.

01/13/2014

Global Action's Peacekeeping Fellow David Curran explored the following subject in his most recent article "Peacekeeping in South Sudan: Offering full-spectrum protection for civilians".

"The UN Security Council’s decision of the 24th December 2013 to reinforce the UNMISS[1] Peacekeeping operation in South Sudan represents a serious attempt to assist in the prevention of attacks on the civilian population within the country. On a wider level, the reinforcement of UNMISS indicates the role that peacekeeping is now expected to play in civilian protection, but it may also provide a warning to how much a peacekeeping operation can achieve without a comprehensive political process to back this up."

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(by Global Action to Prevent War: Blog)

12/13/2013

Global Action's Lia Petridis Maiello covered a U.N. event, organized by the Women's International Forum on Iran's Nuclear Deal with guest speaker Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lia-petridis/the-iran-nuclear-deal_b_4435376.html

Parsi provided valuable lessons in contemporary diplomacy, and reminded the UN audience why the threat of war can no longer be accepted as the "continuation of policy by other means" in the 21st century.

12/05/2013

Global Action's Kritika Seth wrote a piece about "Effective Youth Participation: Harnessing a vast, impatient energy"

"Polices affecting the future of climate health, the global arms trade, gender violence, youth employment and more are being made by older folks alone despite the undeniable fact that the “millennial” generation will be the ones who will have to clean up whatever messes are made."

Editor's note: Following the lead of Melina Lito's work for GAPW on gender, Kritika Seth has been exploring ways to incorporate a youth lens on some of the core security issues that GAPW addresse...

11/25/2013

http://www.rgj.com/usatoday/article/3693173

Otherwise, the climate talks risk becoming entirely irrelevant.

11/25/2013

Global Action's peacekeeping fellow David Curran visited the 3rd Annual Conference on the "Hopefor" initiative in the Dominican Republic.

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Punta Cana hosted the 3rd Annual Conference (http://hopeforinitiativedr.org) on the ‘HOPEFOR’ initiative from 18th-20th November 2013. The HOPEFOR concept came about in 2010 as a Qatar-led initiative to improve the use of military resources and civil defense assets in natural disaster response. Late...

11/25/2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25074729

Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva reach a deal on Tehran's nuclear programme, foreign ministers say, without giving details.

11/12/2013

Global Action's Disarmament Fellow, Marianne Rijke composed a blog post about "Reflections on First Committee’s Debate on SALW".

"These are the reasons why I think First Committee debates are needed and important but they are also the reasons I believe, that the way we organize these discussions limits the potential benefit of the work of First Committee."

http://gapwblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/reflections-on-first-committees-debate-on-salw/

After a month of meetings, side-events, resolutions, discussions and arguments, by state delegations and NGO representatives, it seems like peace and quiet has returned to the United Nations (UN). ...

11/01/2013

Global Action's Director Dr. Robert Zuber wrote a piece about "Restraining Order: Dampening Enthusiasm for the Use of the Veto on Atrocity Crimes".

One of the trendy ideas floating around the UN system as we continue to wrestle with the implications of Syria refers to veto restraint – that is, pushing hard for permanent Council members (P-5) t...