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Research center housed at nyu.edu 🏫 | Strengthening global cooperation for peace, justice, and inclusion 🕊️ ⚖️ 🌐 | #NYUCIC

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💡 In a new blog, #NYUCIC Program Director Joshua Walker gives an overview of the ongoing negotiations in Doha, the Qatari capital 🇶🇦, between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the #M23 rebel movement.

Read the full blog:
cic.nyu.edu/resources/mo...

#DRC #PeaceProcess
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November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🤔 How can the #UNhref="/hashtag/UN80" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#UN80 reform build the political traction it needs?

🚀 Just launched! Our new webpage features our experts’ analysis and resources to clarify the UN80 process and provide practical insights.

Check it out 👇
cic.nyu.edu/program/un80/

#NYUCIC #UNReform #UN #UnitedNations
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November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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“[The UN80 initiative] is an opportunity for the UN to become an active practitioner of emerging technologies, improving how the organization functions, from mandate rationalization to efficiency savings”—Joris de Mooij, #NYUCIC’s Program Associate.

Read the full blog: cic.nyu.edu/resources/un...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Why does #Syria need a truth commission?

Human rights defender Yasmen al Mashan shares her story of loss and resilience—& why centering victims’ voices is vital for justice & reconciliation.

Read: cic.nyu.edu/resources/wh...

#NYUCIC #TransitionalJustice #HumanRights
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November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Congratulations to our Pathfinders member countries: the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴, Senegal 🇸🇳, & Sierra Leone 🇸🇱, for being named the top 3 improvers in #RuleOfLaw in 2024-2025 according to the World Justice Project 2025’s Rule of Law Index!
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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📣 Happening tomorrow! “Eastern Congo’s Protracted Crisis: Understanding the Political Roots of Conflict,” featuring #NYUCIC Program Director Joshua Walker, will examine the current political and security dynamics in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

RSVP now ⤵️
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November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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🙌 Welcome, Lina Ma, to the #NYUCIC team!

🎓 Lina is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Global Affairs at @nyu.edu and has worked at UNDESA and the Urban Justice Center.

Meet Lina:
cic.nyu.edu/people/lina-ma/
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November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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🌍 On a global level, people feel safer today than they have in years.

🚀 In a new report by @gallup.com, we shared perspectives on how safety can be created city by city, system by system.

Download the full report 📥
cic.nyu.edu/resources/ga...
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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🤔 How can we achieve mediation & sustainable peacebuilding in the eastern #DRC?

💡 Join us for an upcoming webinar, featuring our Program Director Joshua Walker, to explore opportunities for peacebuilding & to examine the current political & security dynamics.

RSVP ⤵️
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November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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🚨 Happening tmr! Drawing on his grandfather's legacy, @thantmyintu.bsky.social will help us reframe the history of the 1960s & offer lessons for today's multilateral system. In a world of compounding crises, how can we create multilateral action?

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November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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🌟 Join us in welcoming Naomi George-Edward, #NYUCIC’s newest Program Assistant with the Multilateral Reform program!

📊 She brings experience in policy research and analysis, program coordination, and multilateral cooperation.

Meet Naomi:
cic.nyu.edu/people/naomi...

#NewStaff #PublicPolicy
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November 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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💬 This month, our Program Officer @thibaultc.bsky.social participated in two crucial discussions about the future of the United Nations.

💡 On 10/16, we decoded the UN80’s impact on women's mandates. Then, on 10/21, we explored how #UNhref="/hashtag/UN80" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#UN80 affects the UN Human Rights Pillar.

#NYUCIC #UN @ishr.ch
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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🚀 #UNGA2025 Recap 🚀

Our experts shared insights on:
⚖️ Advancing #PeopleCenteredJustice beyond the sector.
📊 The importance of data rooted in lived experiences.
💰 Strengthening subnational financing.

Read the latest #CICInsights issue ⤵️
mailchi.mp/nyu/cic-insi...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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📩 You’re invited! On November 4, #NYUCIC + @nyu.edu Wagner will share crucial insights from Historian, Writer, and CIC Non-Resident Fellow @thantmyintu.bsky.social on how the United Nations has worked in the past & how these lessons can be applied today.

RSVP now! ⤵️
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October 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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“This is actually a conflict that could be resolved as long as there’s enough resolve on the actors, like the United States, to see the job through”—Joshua Walker on the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Watch the full @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social interview:
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October 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🤖 The rapid development of #AI can either create a more equal world or deepen existing inequalities. Ensuring a positive outcome lies in strengthening #PeopleCenteredJustice systems and making them a central part of bringing global AI governance to individual people.

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cic.nyu.edu/resources/ai...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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📈 In recent years, there has been a notable increase in corporate messaging emphasizing support for #GenderEquality.

🤔 But is this creating real change or just an illusion of progress?

Find out in Alice Viollet’s newest policy brief 🔍
cic.nyu.edu/resources/ha...

#NYUCIC #Feminism #Genderwashing
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October 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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🤔 What can the UN’s first Secretary-General from the Global South teach us about today’s crises?

💡 On November 4, #NYUCIC + @nyu.edu Wagner will host a keynote conversation w/ @thantmyintu.bsky.social to share lessons on the future of #multilateralism.

➕ Register now:
cic.nyu.edu/events/peace...
October 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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🔍 Eugene Chen (@casquebleu.org)’s latest policy brief examines four persistent challenges affecting #UN #PeaceOperations today.

Learn why these problems exist and what practical measures can be taken by #MemberStates and the Secretariat to overcome them. 👇
cic.nyu.edu/resources/ma...

#NYUCIC
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October 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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💡 Thibault Camelli’s newest paper offers 10 proposals to help translate #UN80’s internal momentum into systemic renewal.

🚀 These can restore the connection between reform & political purpose while enhancing co-ownership, legitimacy, & accountability.

Download it now! 👇
cic.nyu.edu/resources/un...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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‼️ #ICYMI: In our latest #CICInsights, we share how we’re advancing effective multilateral action.

This issue includes:
🇺🇳 #UNGA2025 highlights.
💬 Dialogues + new analysis.
📰 Our experts in the news.
🌐 Upcoming forums in Africa and Spain on justice and governance.

Check it out:
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October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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📣 Join us + @nyu.edu Wagner for a keynote conversation w/ @thantmyintu.bsky.social—renowned historian & writer—on his new book, Peacemaker.

🇺🇳 The book is about U Thant, his grandfather, who led the UN through a time of great turbulence & uncertainty.

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October 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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“What’s really needed is to put pressure on both sides, & actually, there are 3 sides. There is the M23 fighting against the Congolese army, [its] backers, & the Rwandan gov't. All of those sides need to have pressure put on them by countries [...] to force them to come to some kind of agreement.”
October 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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❓ Is #UN80 on track? Not yet.

Our paper shows the 3 essentials engagements for #UNReform to work:
1️⃣ Transparent information flows
2️⃣ Mobilized political leadership
3️⃣ Sustained oversight
Read @thibaultc.bsky.social + Fernando Marani's roadmap ⬇️
cic.nyu.edu/resources/wh...

#NYUCIC #UNGAef="/hashtag/UNGA80" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#UNGA80 #UNGA
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October 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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🔍 The peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (#DRC) should consider lessons learned from other countries and its own past.

📝 #CongoResearchGroup's new paper outlines 5 possible outcomes of the Doha mediation process between the DRC government & the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC)/M23.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM