Abe`s special assistant, Shibayama, visited Suva and obtained President Salva Kiir and SRSG David Shearer`s understanding of the Japanese decision.
New Book on Criminal Accountability of UN Police Personnel (09/03/2017)
Tokyo University Associate Professor Kihara-Hunt Ai examines the effectiveness of the UN’s accountability mechanisms and arrangements with reference to criminal behaviour by United Nations Police personnel.
Tony Blair: Against Populism, the Center Must Hold (03/03/2017)
In his opinion article contributed to the New York Times on 3 March, former British Prime Minister Blair finds the Trump revolution is partly economic, but mainly cultural, and suggests that the center needs to develop a new policy agenda that shows people they will get support to help them through the change happening around them.
Gorbachev: “It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War” (24/02/2017)
Thakur points out the risk of falling victim to the Thucydides Trap, while Hasegawa warns the continued defiance of Kantian imperative and freedom will lead to armed conflict.
Trump is from Mars, Guterres is from Venus (23/02/2017)
Thakur believes Guterres is ready to stand up to Trump.
Thakur: Australia needs to wake up, grow up (15/02/2017)
Former Senior Vice Rector of the UN Univerity and UN Assistant Secretary-General, Professor Ramesh Thakur of the Australian National University advises “Not just Japan, but others too will have to conduct a more self-reliant diplomacy to cope with the ‘America First` administration.”
Kant’s “Perpetual Peace” presented to peacebuilding associates (02/02/2017)
Professor Hasegawa shared with the participants of training course commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Immanuel Kant`s understanding of the nature of human beings and the prospect for building “perpetual peace” among nation states.
UN Secretary-General`s message on international terrorists and refugees (31/01/2017)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres expresses his concern about the decisions that are undermining the integrity of the international refugee protection regime around the world.
GPA members debate the fate of the United Nations in the Trump Era (28/01/2017)
At its first meeting in 2017, the Global Peacebuilding Association members presented their views on the existential threat posed by the Trump Presidency to the United Nations and the UN peace operation in South Sudan.
Hasegawa: National Ownership and Integration Key for Successful Peacebuilding (19/01/2017)
President of the Global Peacebuilding Association, Sukehiro Hasegawa, explained the importance attached by the United Nations Security Council to long-term institution-building, national ownership and accountability as critical to peacebuilding in Africa.