PODCAST: Tom Catena is a Hero Doctor of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains Mark Leon Goldberg June 18, 2018For many years Tom Catena was the only doctor in the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan. This is an area on the border between Sudan and South Sudan. In 2011 it was the site of intense fighting between governmen...
PODCAST: Making Sense of the Trump-Kim Summit Mark Leon Goldberg June 14, 2018 When I last spoke with my guest today, Kelsey Davenport, the saber rattling between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un had reached a fever pitch. North Korea was launching nuclear and missile tests; the...
The UN’s Nightmare Scenario is Now Unfolding in Yemen Mark Leon Goldberg June 12, 2018UPDATE: The Saudi-led coalition has launched a major attack on the crucial port city of Hodeidah. The UN and humanitarian agencies have warned for months that an attack on this port could disrupt food supplies ...
PODCAST: A Bold (Yet Practical) New Idea for UN Reform Mark Leon Goldberg June 11, 2018I spent the last week of May at a conference in Stockholm called the New Shape Forum. This was an ideas festival and prize competition and workshop all around new ideas for better organizing the world to co...
PODCAST: World Food Program Chief David Beasley Discusses Food Crises in the Sahel and North Korea Mark Leon Goldberg June 7, 2018 My guest today, David Beasley is the executive director of the World Food Program. We caught up not long after he visited both the Sahel region of western Africa and from North Korea, where the Wo...
What India Can Teach Indiana About Fighting Diabetes Mark Leon Goldberg June 4, 2018The developing world is where some of the more innovative strategies against diseases have been developed. To a certain extent, this is out of necessity -- poorer communities have higher burdens of preventa...
180,000 Refugees in Jordan Are About to Lose a Lifeline Mark Leon Goldberg June 1, 2018Some 5.6 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries since war broke out seven years ago. This includes Jordan, which is home to 657,000 Syrian refugees. And now, some of the most vulnerable among them a...
PODCAST: Kristine McDivitt Tompkins was one of the largest private landowners in the world before she gave it away Mark Leon Goldberg May 31, 2018Kristine McDivitt Tompkins made history earlier this year when she completed what is said to be the largest ever transfer of land from a private entity to a government.In a ceremony in Chile with Presi...
It is the 70th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping. Here’s How Peacekeeping Has Evolved Mark Leon Goldberg May 30, 2018Peacekeeping is not in the Charter of the United Nations. When negotiators hammered out the details of the San Francisco Treaty in 1945, they created a new model for international political cooperation. But tha...
