Former Foreign Minister and Permanent Representative of Nigeria and Under-Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari delivered his John Holmes Memorial Lecture at ACUNS Annual Meeting in New York. Please click here for an extended version of his speech.
Einstein: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” (02/06/2016)
Hasegawa: “We cannot achieve our goal of integrating Japan with the World unless we are ready to integrate ourselves with the peoples of the World Community.” Please click here for details. (Photo: quotesvil.com)
EU Council President Donald Tusk and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker call for global solidarity (26/05/2016)
Just before the Ise-Shima G7 Summit started in Japan, EU Council and Commission Presidents stressed migrants and refugees are a global crisis requiring global solidarity and assistance. (Photo: EC Audiovisual Services)
Paul Krugman: Fiscal expansion only a way left to revive Japanese economy in spite of adverse debt impact (22/03/2016)
PM Shinzo Abe takes Paul Krugman’s suggestion and is proposing fiscal demand stimulus at Ise-Shima G7 Summit. Click here for detail of the analysis meeting held by Krugman and Shinzo Abe.
UN Chronicle: Post-Conflict Leadership – Key to Sustainable Peace and Development (April 2016)
In April 2016 issue of the UN Chronicle Magazine, former SRSG Hasegawa asserts, the critical task for national leaders is to secure political stability and national unity by influencing the thought and behavior of opponents.
UNDP Asia Chief thanks Japan for supporting the pillars of UN mission: peace, development and human rights (21-22/04/2016)
Haoliang Xu, UNDP Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Pacific spoke about Japan’s leadership in the global campaign again poverty, inequality, conflict and natural disasters at Kwansei Gakuin University and Yokohama National University.
Hasegawa calls for moving out of the Hobbesian world and establishing the new world order anchored in global governance (01/05/2016)
At Y7 Summit at Waseda University, youth delegates from G7 countries discussed, inter alia, how international security could be maintained.
Professor Kyu-dok Hong opens First East Asian Forum on UN Peace Operations in Seoul (22-23/04/2016)
Experts from Japan, China, Mongolia and Republic of Korea met and shared Lessons Learned from UNMISS operations and explored ways ahead.
JICA and NHK Staff explain Peacebuilding Efforts made in Srebrenica: 20 Years after the Massacre (16/04/2016)
In their presentations, Yamagishi of JICA and Kiraku of NHK explained what had happened with Serbs and Muslims of Srebrenica in their efforts to overcome their animosity and achieve reconciliation.