Georgios Kostakos is a former senior UN official and member of the Peacemaking Reflection Group of former UN system staff (PRG), which is supported by the Foundation for Global Governance and ...

Fiona Curtin is the Communications Adviser of FUNDS, helping to coordinate the project's communications and social media activities. She worked for more than 10 years at the UN and in the NGO sector ...

Fueled by a feeling that they were sidelined, civil society members deplored a “lack of ambition,” they say, that could be ...

The United Nations Security Council is being increasingly criticized for failing to bring peace to many conflicts raging ...

Damilola Banjo is an award-winning staff reporter for PassBlue who has covered a wide range of topics, from Africa-centered stories to gender equality to UN peacekeeping and US-UN relations. She also ...

Precautions taken in Mali against Covid-19, March 2020. A UN-75 political declaration to reinforce global cooperation was approved recently by the General Assembly. But it had hit many sticking points ...

Arthur Bassas is a researcher and writer who graduated from St. Andrews in Scotland, majoring in international relations and terrorism. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and speaks English and French.

Arshi Qureshi is a freelance journalist based in New York City, focusing on politics and social issues. She holds a master's degree in political journalism from the Columbia University School of ...

I was fortunate to be sitting in the General Assembly Hall on Sept. 22, 2024, when the freshly minted Pact for the Future was adopted by the member states of the United Nations. The pact is an ...

Arthur Bassas is a researcher and writer who graduated from St. Andrews in Scotland, majoring in international relations and terrorism. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and speaks English and French.

Through a combination of critical mass, quality ideas and deft multilateral diplomacy, civil society can team up with champion governments and dynamic leaders in global and regional institutions to ...