In this week's edition of UN Plaza, I speak with filmmaker Lisa Jackson, whose documentary The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo premiered on HBO this week.
In this week's edition of UN Plaza, I speak with filmmaker Lisa Jackson, whose documentary The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo premiered on HBO this week.
In this week's UN Plaza, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Pickering discusses his New York Review of Books article in which he and co-authors William Luers and Jim Walsh propose a sensible diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear stand-off. In the segment below, Ambassador Pickering explains why bombing Iran is a terrible, terrible alternative.
In this week's UN Plaza, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Pickering discusses his New York Review of Books article in which he and co-authors William Luers and Jim Walsh propose a sensible diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear stand-off. In the segment below, Ambassador Pickering explains why bombing Iran is a terrible, terrible alternative.
Parag Khanna, author of Second Word: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order stops by UN Plaza this week. In the segment below, Parag explains why developing countries of the second world are the "swing states" of the 21st century.
NPR's All Things Considered, in a report entitled "U.N. Returns to Baghdad in Force," provides a welcome look into the hard work undertaken by the hundreds of personnel -- both foreign and domestic -- serving the United Nations in Iraq. The "return" of the report's title refers to the aftermath of the August 2003 suicide bombing -- one of the first of the insurgency -- that destroyed the UN mission's base and killed 22 of its staff, including the mission's head, veteran diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello (about whom Samantha Power has just published an insightful book). NPR correspondent Anne Garrels interviews the Secretary-General's current Special Representative in Iraq, Staffan de Mistura, and highlights some of the UN's unheralded successes in Iraq.
These successes include: delaying the referendum on the city of Kirkuk, which, if conducted too early, would likely have only exacerbated volatile ethnic tensions; helping the Iraqi government design the structure with which to use its oil money (a luxury not enjoyed by most countries in which the UN operates); and preparing for the upcoming regional elections, which local Iraqis, largely dissatisfied with their regional governments, are eagerly awaiting.
In this installment of UN Plaza, Ambassador Thomas Pickering discusses his new article in Survival in which the former UN Ambassador explores the possibility of a greater UN role in Iraq.
In this installment of Blogging Heads, Matthew Lee and I discuss the collapsing peacekeeping mission in Eritrea
Ed Morrissey, AKA Captain Ed of Captain's Quarters (now, at Hot Air) and I discuss conservative hostility toward the UN. In this segment, we take a look at the UN and IAEA's track record on North Korea and Iran.