Sam Daws Director, Project on UN Governance and Reform, University of Oxford   Summary In this episode of the ACUNS Current Issues Podcast series, host […]

Kurt Mills Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights, Glasgow University Summary In this episode of the ACUNS Book Talks Podcast series, Kurt Mills, Senior Lecturer […]

Loraine Sievers Former Chief of the Security Council Secretariat Branch Summary In this Book Talk podcast Loraine Sievers joins co-host Gwenith Cross to discuss Loraine Sievers […]

In this episode of the ACUNS Current Issues Podcast, Pamina Firchow, Assistant Professor at the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, joins co-host Alistair Edgar to discuss the Everyday Peace Indicators (EPI) research program, for which she is one of two Principal Investigators alongside Professor Roger MacGuinty of the University of Manchester. Dr. Firchow talks about the original impetus behind the EPI program, the countries and communities in which it currently is being undertaken, and the various methods and techniques – as well as technologies such as mobile phones – used to collect data in communities which may be very difficult to access due to physical location or levels of ongoing conflict. She also addresses the potential value of EPI to international organisations, as a unique and sensitive form of local early warning, and as a complement to other, different data bases on peace and conflict.

In this episode of the ACUNS Professional Development Podcast series, Geneva-based writer, editor and translator Lemoyne Baquet joins co-host Alistair Edgar to discuss the former’s career path from North American undergraduate and graduate studies, to extensive overseas experience as a teacher, administrator and freelance journalist in Africa, the Middle East, Far East, South America, and Western Europe, and then as a writer and Assistant Program Manager with the ICRC in Geneva. Baquet speaks about the major personal and professional challenges involved in building, and in living, such a diverse global career; and about some of the highlights from his work with the ICRC, including achieving and maintaining a constructive and highly successful relationship with the European Commission as a funder of important ICRC work.

Professor Martin Edwards speaks with Alistair Edgar about the new Certificate in United Nations Studies at Seton Hall University.

In this episode of the ACUNS Current Issues Podcast, Andrew Tomlinson, Quaker UN Representative and Director, Quaker UN Office NY, joins co-host Alistair Edgar to discuss his recent article, Peace and Post-2015: Into the Home Stretch which focuses on Sustainable Development Goal 16: “Promote peaceful and inclusive institutions at all levels”. Tomlinson provides insight on the process, various pressures and interests at play in the formation of Goal 16, and what we should expect to see and hear over the next 3-6 months as Member States head into the UN Special Summit in New York in September and the COP21 in Paris in December. He discusses the challenges that Goal 16 will face as negotiations turn to questions of financing and implementation. Tomlinson also addresses how Goal 16 and the SDGs broadly will shape the future of the peacebuilding agenda for NGOs, states, and other private and global actors