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All I Want for Christmas…Is for Bob Geldof to Be Quiet
- Analysis
- December 10, 2014
When Sir Bob Geldof re-released the song ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ to raise money for Ebola victims, I decided against writing a blog about it. Bob does not need me to do his promotion, I thought, and sure enough the song jumped straight to number one in the U.K. charts and became the fastest
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Is It Possible to Meet ‘The Responsibility to Protect’?
- Research
- December 10, 2014
Published on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage Blog, December 9, 2014 These are difficult days for defenders of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, which holds that the international community must be prepared to act when countries “manifestly fail to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.” All member states
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Migration Promises and Challenges in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Analysis
- December 8, 2014
In 2015, the adoption by member states of the United Nations of a new development agenda to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will likely include a clear role for international migration. As the special representative of the UN Secretary-General for International Migration and Development, Peter Sutherland, recently indicated, the sheer volume of remittances (estimated
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The UNFCCC and Beyond: Transnational Climate Change Governance
- Analysis
- December 6, 2014
The world’s attention (or at least that bit of it thinking about climate change at all) is focused again on the annual UN negotiations that convene for two weeks every December. This year in Lima, increasing attention is being given to a huge array of initiatives that work outside, or alongside, the UN Framework Convention
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