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❓ #DYK: #NYUCIC has a growing library on YouTube!
🎙️ From expert interviews to event highlights, our channel is where CIC’s ideas come to life. Go beyond the page and explore our videos!
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“SDG16 is the glue that holds peace and sustainable development together. It is how societies manage risk, build resilience, and make development last in an era of rapid change.”
—Maggie Williams, Associate Director for SDG16+ with the @sdg16.plus at #NYUCIC, at a training hosted by UNODC + UNICRI.
In a new #NYUCIC Perspectives piece, @leahguyot.bsky.social and @natbriggs.bsky.social, program officers with @sdg16.plus, examine how multilateral negotiations on women’s rights are shifting, from advancing new commitments to defending existing ones.
⏪ Last week, we were excited to welcome members of the International Relations Society at NYU to #NYUCIC for a discussion on our work promoting multilateral cooperation, peace, justice, and inclusion. 🌍🤝🕊️
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📣 #NYUCIC is joining #NYUWagner, which will help strengthen our influence in global public service commitments.
🌍 This integration reflects a close alignment of organizational values & opens opportunities for a stronger connection between research and practice.
👉 wagner.nyu.edu/news/story/n...
"SDG16 is the canary in the coal mine of sustainable development—a barometer of institutional health, social trust, and national resilience."—Maggie Williams, Associate Director for SDG16+ with the @sdg16.plus at #NYUCIC, on the need to strengthen #ViolenceReduction and #AccessToJustice data.
⚖️ El equipo Pathfinders de #NYUCIC se encuentra en Panamá 🇵🇦 para la Jornada Regional Iberoamericana sobre Acceso a la Justicia, un momento crucial para promover una justicia que transforme las experiencias de las personas en toda Iberoamérica. 🌍
Más información ⤵️
www.sdg16.plus/events/jorna...
⚖️ The Pathfinders team at #NYUCIC is on the ground in Panama 🇵🇦 for the Ibero-American Regional Forum on Access to Justice, a crucial moment to advance justice that transforms people’s lived experiences across Ibero-America. 🌍
More info ⤵️
www.sdg16.plus/events/ibero...
✈️ On our way to Panama! 🇵🇦
The Pathfinders team at #NYUCIC is headed to the Ibero-American Regional Forum on Access to Justice, where justice champions worldwide will share ways to close the justice gap in Ibero-America.
Learn more! 🔗
www.sdg16.plus/events/ibero...
—Fernando Marani, Program Director for Justice, Inclusion, and Equality with the @sdg16.plus at #NYUCIC, on delivering #HumanRights mandates at the UN Third Committee.
Watch the full video ⤵️
youtu.be/ztP_IACBexE
💡 “The solution is a refocus on the city as a unit of budget, action, and delivery of services.”—David Jackson, Non-Resident Fellow, #NYUCIC. “If national governments are concerned about issues such as the climate crisis, the most effective way to deal w/that is through local governments.”
“Without any ingratitude to those who made efforts to bring us to safety, I think the evacuation & fleeing the country was not really a sigh of relief, & it was the beginning of a new kind of pain”—Ali Yawar Adili, Afghan policy researcher & #NYUCIC Fellow, shares his experience in Kabul in 2021.
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💡 “One should be hopeful that by the time UN85 comes around, mandate review will be something that recalls multilateral achievement.”
Read Bruno Ríos’s latest blog on the challenges and recommendations for the #UN mandate reform 👇
cic.nyu.edu/resources/un...
#NYUCIC #Multilateralism #UN80 #UnRefor
🎬 Democracy on Screen: Washington, DC (in person)
Jan 14, 6:30 PM at @nyu.edu DC: screening of Kabul Chaos + discussion with @npr.org’s Nick Spicer & Afghan policy researcher and #NYUCIC Fellow Ali Yawar Adili.
🎟️ Register: www.nyu.edu/community/go....
#Afghanistan #GlobalGovernance #ForeignPolicy
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🌟 A new blog by Bruno Ríos reviews previous attempts at #UN mandate reform, challenges ahead, and practical reforms related to meetings and reports streamlining.
👉 Check it out: cic.nyu.edu/resources/un....
#NYUCIC #Multilateralism #UN80 #UNReform
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🎉 Happy New Year from the #NYUCIC team!
🌐 The new year presents renewed opportunities to advance practical solutions for a more peaceful & just world.
💪 In the year ahead, we remain committed to addressing global challenges—from advancing #peacebuilding to strengthening #InternationalCooperation.
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🤔 How do we ensure the clean energy transition leaves no one behind?
💡 One of New York Green Bank’s operating principles is that 35% of capital is allocated to projects benefiting underserved communities.
Learn how this policy works:
www.sdg16.plus/policies/new...
#SDG16Plus #SDG16 #NYUCIC #SDG7
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🧠 What do the newest publications tell us about humanitarian crises, #justice, #gender, and #GlobalGovernance?
🚀 The latest #CICInsights brings together research you won’t want to miss.
➕ Read more: mailchi.mp/sdg16/cic-in....
📩 Subscribe now: cic.nyu.edu/newsletters/.
#NYUCIC #Multilateralism #N
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✨ Happy Holidays from the #NYUCIC team!
💡 As the year comes to a close, we reflect on a year of meaningful dialogue, groundbreaking research, and collaborative efforts to advance peace, justice, and inclusion worldwide.
Check out our latest publications:
cic.nyu.edu/resources/
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🆕 A new blog by Bruno Ríos reviews some of the causes of unsuccessful #UNReform attempts, the challenges ahead, and focuses on the case of meetings and report streamlining—a good example of a mandate reform area that might hold promise.
📑 Read the full piece: cic.nyu.edu/resources/un....
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💡 In #NYUCIC’s latest policy brief, @thibaultc.bsky.social unpacks recommendations from the #UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) report on #UN80.
Download it now 📄
cic.nyu.edu/resources/ho...
#NYUCIC #Multilateralism #UNReform
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🚨 The United Nations is running out of cash and time. So, how can #MemberStates address this?
💡 Learn how the organization can create a solvency framework in @thibaultc.bsky.social’s latest blog: cic.nyu.edu/resources/th...
#NYUCIC #UN #UN80 #UNReform #Multilateralism
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❓ Can the #UN80 reform turn commitments into actual progress?
💡 Our newest webpage includes our analysis and resources to clarify this process and provide practical insights on how reform can build the political traction it needs.
Learn more:
cic.nyu.edu/program/un80/
#NYUCIC
🌍 Nouveau rapport d’@ebuteli.bsky.social et du @gec-crg.bsky.social de #NYUCIC.
En 2022, la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) a lancé un vaste appel d’offres pour 30 blocs d’hydrocarbures, présenté comme un moteur potentiel de développement.
Ms. Karin Landgren, Distinguished Fellow, #NYUCIC; former Executive Director of @screport.bsky.social, suggests ways to use the next few months most effectively, including:
Last week, “Navigating the Next Secretary-General Selection & Appointment Process,” led & introduced by #NYUCIC Program Director Fernando Marani, who also moderated, together w/ our Program Officer @thibaultc.bsky.social, explored the rules & standards applicable to the 2026 #UNSG selection process.
Purple background. Text next to graphic of half globe: Why the World Feels Safer. By Luisa Portugal. Pathfinders logo on top left.
🌍 “To create a safer world, we need a holistic approach that considers safety and security as a whole-of-society and whole-of-government issue”—Luisa Portugal, #NYUCIC’s Program Officer.
Download the full paper:
www.sdg16.plus/resources/is...
#NYUCIC #SDG16 #SaferCities #ViolencePrevention
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🤔 How does the United Nations (UN) Security Council and the UN General Assembly choose the next UN Secretary-General?
Find out in @marksimonoff.bsky.social’s updated policy brief 🔻
cic.nyu.edu/resources/th...
#UN80 #UNGA #NYUCIC #UNSC #UN
Text over blue background: Revitalizing Preston and Community Wealth Building in the UK. By Maya Koehn-Wu. #InequalitySolutions. Houses on the bottom. Pathfinders logo on top middle.
❓ #DYK: Preston’s Community Wealth Building strategy lifted the city out of the bottom 20% of the UK’s most deprived local communities.
Learn how this was achieved ⤵️
www.sdg16.plus/policies/com...
#SDG16Plus #SDG16 #NYUCIC #InequalitySolutions #SDG6
🌍 New report by @ebuteli.bsky.social and the @gec-crg.bsky.social at #NYUCIC.
In 2022, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) launched a major tender for 30 hydrocarbon blocks, presented as a potential driver of national development.
