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This opinion piece is part of the the Global Governance Futures 2025 program which brings together young professionals to look ahead and recommend ways to address global challenges. The United Nations (UN) is a picture of the world 70 years ago and is no longer suitable for or representative of…

The Human Rights up Front Initiative of the United Nations Too often has the United Nations system failed to mobilize all of its tools to protect populations from serious human rights violations. A notable example is the UN’s inadequate human rights response in Sri Lanka in 2009, during the…

Last Friday, the German parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of opening negotiations with Greece over a third bailout package. Once concluded, it will bring German guarantees for Greece to more than 100 billion euros. Rather than getting minimum credit for this, Germany’s image across Europe and…

Letzten Freitag stimmte der Bundestag mit klarer Mehrheit für die Aufnahme von Verhandlungen mit Griechenland über ein neues Rettungspaket. Dieses würde die deutschen Garantien auf mehr als 100 Milliarden Euro bringen. Doch anstatt minimale Anerkennung dafür zu finden, befindet sich das…

In mid-June, the German parliament scrambled to repel the worst cyberattack in its history. Meanwhile, 800 IT security experts and members of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) from around the world met just a few blocks away at the annual meeting of the Forum for Incident Response…

This interview was conducted by Mirko Hohmann and Joel Sandhu for the the Global Governance Futures 2025 program which brings together young professionals to look ahead and recommend ways to address global challenges. GGF: Parminder, you are working on e-governance for the Indian government. What…

This blog post was written ahead of the Third International Conference on Financing For Development (FFD3), which took place from July 13 to 16, 2015. With the Addis Ababa conference on Financing for Development in full swing, last minute suggestions on the right priorities are flooding in. However,…

As the Modi government crosses its one-year mark, pundits are singing its praises for prioritizing foreign policy. The revival of the partnership with the US is one of Modi’s proudest accomplishments so far. Particularly after Obama’s visit in January this year, many already saw the start of a new…

On July 9, the youngest country on Earth celebrated its birthday. Four years ago, South Sudan achieved its independence with broad international support. Since December 2013, however, a new civil war between the South Sudan president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, and his former deputy, Riek Machar, has…

Gerade erst hat das jüngste Land der Erde Geburtstag gefeiert. Vor vier Jahren beging der Südsudan mit breiter internationaler Unterstützung seine Unabhängigkeit. Seit Dezember 2013 verwüstet ein neuer Bürgerkrieg zwischen dem Präsidenten und seinem ehemaligen Stellvertreter die geschundene…

This week, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will travel to Cuba. His visit will mark the end of a diplomatic ice age in the relations between Cuba and Germany since 2003. During the Cuban “Black Spring” that year, there were arrests of political activists, executions and other human…

Diese Woche wird Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier nach Kuba reisen. Der Besuch markiert das Ende einer seit 2003 andauernden Eiszeit zwischen Kuba und Deutschland. Diese Eiszeit wurde ausgelöst durch Hinrichtungen, Festnahmen von politischen Aktivisten und weiteren Menschenrechtverletzungen im…

The summer blockbuster season presents the perfect opportunity to reflect on one of Hollywood’s biggest off-screen hits from 2014: North Korea’s alleged hack of Sony in response to The Interview, a buddy comedy about the assassination of Kim Jung-un. Because of the Sony hack, The Interview was…

Policy Debates in Brazil, China and South Africa on Protecting People From Atrocity Crimes Executive Summary A decade since the United Nations adopted the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) people from atrocity crimes, most politicians, academics and civil society advocates in the West…

In diesen Julitagen vor 20 Jahren ermordeten serbische Freischärler bei Srebrenica über 8000 Menschen, die meisten von ihnen Jungen und Männer. Die Vereinten Nationen hatten die Stadt zwar zur "Schutzzone" für Zivilisten erklärt, doch weder die Regierungen noch die UN-Bürokratie waren bereit, ihr…

Twenty years ago this July, Serb paramilitaries murdered more than 8,000 people around the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, most of them boys and men. The United Nations had declared the town a “safe area” for civilians, but when matters were taken to the extreme, neither the governments around the world…

Lack of knowledge is not the issue. Through numerous eyewitness accounts, as well as audio and video recordings, the public has learned about the dramatic crossings of the Mediterranean, about the miserable drownings, about the coffins – small and large. But the European Union still fails to handle…