When can we expect a vaccine for COVID-19? How will we ensure that it is safe? The WHO’s Top Scientist Explains Mark Leon Goldberg October 28, 2020 When can we expect a vaccine for COVID-19? How will we ensure that it is safe? Who should be vaccinated first and why? A new podcast from the World Health Organization seeks to answer some of the public's mo...
Biological Weapons: Still a Huge Global Threat! Mark Leon Goldberg October 26, 2020 It's the late summer and an unexplained influenza virus is killing international travelers. Researchers quickly identify the virus as a genetically engineered flu-strain. Intelligence agencies find irrefutable ...
Happy Birthday, UN: What the United Nation’s 75th Anniversary Tells Us About the Future of International Relations and Multilateralism Mark Leon Goldberg October 23, 2020 On October 24, 1945 the San Francisco Treaty that established the United Nations entered into force. The United Nations, as we know it today, was officially born as a platform for collective security among its ...
Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Program Highlights These Links Between Hunger and Conflict Mark Leon Goldberg October 20, 2020 Nobel Peace Prize spotlights the links between hunger and conflict Jessica Eise, Purdue University The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations World Food Program for its efforts to com...
How Protests Against Police Brutality in Nigeria Sparked a Mass Social Movement Mark Leon Goldberg October 19, 2020 In early October a video began to circulate on social media in Nigeria depicting a gruesome act of police brutality. The perpetrators of the police violence were from a notorious police unit called the Special ...
COVID-19 is Forcing a Reckoning in the Humanitarian Aid Industry Mark Leon Goldberg October 12, 2020 The constellation of UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and local actors that respond when people's lives are upended by a natural or manmade disaster is what we refer to as the humanitarian aid secto...
The World Food Program Wins the Nobel Peace Prize. These Two Podcast Episodes Take You Inside the Work of the WFP Mark Leon Goldberg October 9, 2020 The World Food Program was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving for...
Political Crisis in Cote D’Ivoire Mark Leon Goldberg October 5, 2020 In early March Cote D'Ivoire president Alassane Ouatarra announced that he would not seek a constitutionally dubious third term in office. Instead, he he said he would pass the baton to a new generation of Ivor...
Major Crisis Erupts in Nagorno-Karabakh Mark Leon Goldberg October 1, 2020 A major conflict has erupted in Nagorno-Karabakh, with some of the heaviest fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan in decades. This fighting may deteriorate into a major international crisis. Nagorno-Karabakh...
