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10/16/2022
Bye Bye, World: Will Humanity Continue to Tolerate the Risk of Nuclear War?
by Lawrence Wittner
Since the dawn of the nuclear age, broad-based disarmament movements have demanded a world without the threat of nuclear annihilation. Will the governments of powerful nations lead the way to realizing that goal?
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SOURCE: L.A. Progressive
9/28/2022
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is a Model for Global Progressive Leadership
by Walter G. Moss
As many American Catholic leaders and officials tend toward conservatism and even authoritarianism, it's crucial to look to other examples of the faith informing public action.
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9/18/2022
Ukraine Shows the Need to Break the Cycle of National Insecurity
by Roger Peace
It doesn't excuse Russian aggression against Ukraine to recognize that the United States has fumbled the opportunity to forge a global order based on cooperative and mutual security in the years since the end of the Cold War.
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9/4/2022
UN Report Highlights Ongoing Racism in US
by Alan J. Singer
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) called out American health disparities, police abuse and crackdowns on protesters as key failures of the United States to address racial inequality.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
6/1/2022
Shirley Temple Black's Second Act as a Diplomat
An unpublished memoir of her late life, recently released to the Smithsonian, shows how Shirley Temple Black worked to thwart pervasive sexism in the diplomatic arena while advocating for a global environmental awareness.
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11/21/2021
Despite What You Hear, Most Americans Look Favorably on Internationalism
by Lawrence Wittner
Most Americans recognize the lessons of worldwide crises in climate, migration and health: a system of nearly 200 nations guarding their own interests is not going to solve humanity's biggest problems.
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SOURCE: NPR
6/28/2021
The U.N. Rights Chief Says Reparations Are Needed For People Facing Racism
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on nations to "stop denying and start dismantling" racism through means including, but not limited to, monetary compensation.
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3/28/2021
Can Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Overcome the Opposition?
by Lawrence Wittner
People who want to end the nightmare of nuclear destruction that has haunted the world since 1945 should consider widening the popular appeal of nuclear weapons abolition by strengthening the UN’s ability to provide international security.
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3/21/2021
Has the One World Idea's Time Come Again?
by Samuel Zipp
Can remembering the “one world” vision for America’s global role—largely forgotten today – help us get beyond both America First and the “liberal world order”?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/3/2020
Brian Urquhart, a Foundational Leader at the United Nations, Dies at 101
"In the mid-1950s, as the lone official in Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold’s inner circle with military experience, Mr. Urquhart helped invent the practice of U.N. peacekeeping through the establishment of the U.N. Emergency Force."
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/6/2020
America May Need International Intervention
by Peter Beinart
When other democracies have fallen into peril, they have sought help from the United Nations. The United States might consider it, writes Peter Beinart, since Black Americans have long had to appeal to the community of nations to intervene to secure their democratic rights.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
8/31/2020
‘Ten Days in Harlem’: An Interview with Historian Simon Hall
An interview with historian Simon Hall examines the links between revolutionary Cuba, anticolonial rebellion, and civil rights militancy in the United States as revealed by Fidel Castro's 10-day visit to Harlem and the United Nations in 1960.
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SOURCE: Global Policy
7/16/2020
“A Tragic Illusion” - Did the Atom Bomb Make the United Nations Obsolete Three Weeks After its Birth?
by Tad Daley
President Harry Truman's knowledge of the imminent success of the Manhattan Project led him to fear that the United Nations' charter was inadequate to the task of preventing war; the Cold War meant that a better form of internationalism was never achieved.
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5/17/2020
Who Can Learn From Taiwan? Apparently not WHO
by Keith Clark
The World Health Organization is unable to effectively learn from Taiwan's response to COVID-19 because the agency adheres to a "One China" policy that doesn't recognize both the People's Republic of China and Taiwan.
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4/19/2020
American Women at the UN: From Breakthrough to Dumping Ground?
by Philip Nash
More women belong in senior foreign and national security policy positions—at State, Defense, the National Security Council, and beyond—and not just at the United Nations.
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9/22/19
The Two Internationalisms
by Lawrence Wittner
The right has long criticized internationalism, but why is the left doing so today?
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SOURCE: The Conversation
9/5/19
Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop
by Samantha Lakin
Despite the broader mission’s many well-documented failings, peacekeepers took risks to save lives, going beyond official orders to protect innocent Rwandans.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/30/19
Historian Tim Naftali Unearths Audio of Ronald Reagan's Racist Conversation with Nixon
by Tim Naftali
In newly unearthed audio, the then–California governor disparaged African delegates to the United Nations.
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3/24/19
America, Palestine, and UNRWA: A History of Self-interest
by Laura Robson
Donald Trump recently announced he would withdraw from the American commitment to provide some $300 million to UNRWA. Here is the history of the organization and American involvement.
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3/3/19
Remembering Audrey Hepburn's Best Role
by William Lambers
How her experiences as a child motivated her commitment to ending children's hunger.