What Happened At the United Nations on September 11, 2001 Mark Leon Goldberg September 10, 2021 Stephane Dujarric is a long serving United Nations spokesperson who on September 11th, 2001 was at his office at the United Nations when planes struck the World Trade Center. I've known Stephane Dujarric a long...
What Comes Next for the United Nations in Afghanistan? | Mark Malloch Brown Mark Leon Goldberg September 7, 2021 As Afghanistan enters a perilous and uncertain future, the United Nations has promised to "stay and deliver." To be sure, the needs are immense. The country's humanitarian emergency is worsening by the day. On ...
What Comes Next for Humanitarian and Development NGOs in Afghanistan? Mark Leon Goldberg September 2, 2021 Zuhra Bahman was out of the country on a business meeting when the Taliban took control of Kabul. She is the Afghanistan country director for Search for Common Ground, an NGO that engages in community based ...
Eritrean Refugees in Tigray Are Trapped Mark Leon Goldberg August 30, 2021 By Refugees International Senior Fellow Dr. Sarah Miller, Being in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region right now is difficult for anyone. Famine, conflict, and sexual violence are prevalent, and communications...
“They Are Missing Our Side Of The Story” — An Afghan Human Rights Activist Speaks Out Mark Leon Goldberg August 25, 2021 Zubaida Akbar is an Afghan human rights activist living in Washington, D.C. She is desperately trying to get vulnerable people out of the country, including a group of female journalists who are almost certainl...
Better Know The Climate Investment Funds Mark Leon Goldberg August 23, 2021 Back in 2008, in the midst of both a global economic catastrophe and stalled progress on climate diplomacy, a unique multilateral platform called the Climate Investment Funds was born. The G-8 created the Cl...
What Are the Latest Trends in Peace and Conflict Around the World? | Global Peace Index Founder Steve Killelea Mark Leon Goldberg August 19, 2021 The Global Peace Index is an ambitious effort to measure peacefulness around the world using quantitative data. Now in its 15th year, the Global Peace Index has offered policymakers and analysts a useful way to...
How The Enduring Legacy of 9-11 Forever Shaped American Foreign Policy — For the Worse Mark Leon Goldberg August 12, 2021 You can draw a line from September 11 2001 to January 6 2021. In the new book Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump journalist Spencer Ackerman offers an intense examina...
How a Rivalry Over Yemen’s Currency is Fueling the Civil War Mark Leon Goldberg August 9, 2021 The crisis in Yemen is compounded by the odd circumstances of Yemen's currency, the Rial. Yemen has two rival central banks. In the north of the country, where Houthi Rebels ousted the internationally recognize...
