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Global CooperationInternational Election Monitors: Agents of Free Elections
The violent presidential election in Burundi highlights the need for UN election-monitoring services. On the eve of the July 21 presidential election,...
Global CooperationGamesmanship and the Iran Deal: An Open Letter to Those Objecting
Let’s look at the field positions of the parties in Iran, the United States, and Israel who seem to want to kill...
Global CooperationThe Iran Nuclear Discussion
It’s time for us to act like adults. President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have won an agreement, which has...
Julian Huxley and the Intellectual Foundations of UNESCO
Visions of beauty for mankind to seeThe Present's place in the Eternal scheme,And point which way to turn Life's undeciding stream. —"Holyrood,"...
Global CooperationA Call for Just Security
This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post and is cross-posted with the author's permission. We are in danger of losing the...
Global CooperationSeventy-Year Solutions, Part 3
Over the next 70 years, our children and grandchildren will need to negotiate three major transitions in human civilization. Parts 1 and...
Global CooperationKim Kardashian for President? UN Celebrity Ambassadors: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
Daniel Craig, most known for his ongoing movie role as James Bond, was recently appointed the first United Nations global advocate for...
Climate JusticeSeventy-Year Solutions, Part 2
As I discussed in Part 1 of this blog series, Over the next 70 years, our children and grandchildren will need to...
Global CooperationNPT 2015: Nuclear Weapons and Tension Areas
As Winston Churchill once quipped, “God so loved the world that he did not send a committee.” The Drafting Committee of the...
Climate JusticeA Seventy-Year Solution: More Energy, Less Climate Change
This is the first of three planned blogs to focus on three crucial levers to a sustainable and ample life for our...
Global CooperationNPT: New Opportunities and Obsolete Perceptions
In my last blog, I outlined the framework of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the role of...