Robert Piper
@unpiper.bsky.social
Former UN AssistSecretaryGeneral for solutions for internally displaced persons. Former head of UN's global Development Coordination Office. UN Coordinator for Palestine, for Sahel, Nepal & Kosovo. #Prevention #Solutions #Multilateralism #Hope
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Rethinking Humanitarianism | The UN’s 20th-century diplomacy for 21st-century problems: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/podcasts/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
Rethinking Humanitarianism | The UN’s 20th-century diplomacy for 21st-century problems
Historian Thant Myint-U on how the UN got sidetracked from multilateralism, where it must focus, and why the next secretary-general pick is crucial.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Rethinking Humanitarianism | The UN’s 20th-century diplomacy for 21st-century problems: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/podcasts/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
Great to join @weforum.org Global Councils meeting in Dubai this week, to join the Council on "reimagining aid"
October 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Great to join @weforum.org Global Councils meeting in Dubai this week, to join the Council on "reimagining aid"
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Do not forget about the Sahel.
About 4 million people are now displaced across Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and neighbouring countries.
That’s 2/3 more than five years ago.
About 4 million people are now displaced across Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and neighbouring countries.
That’s 2/3 more than five years ago.
October 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Do not forget about the Sahel.
About 4 million people are now displaced across Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and neighbouring countries.
That’s 2/3 more than five years ago.
About 4 million people are now displaced across Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and neighbouring countries.
That’s 2/3 more than five years ago.
odi.org/en/insights/... Global updates
Think Change episode 80: UNGA 80 – what kind of UN does the world need today?
With the 80th UN General Assembly under way, guests dissect the credibility crisis facing the UN and the reforms it must make to respond to today's fractured global order.
odi.org
September 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
odi.org/en/insights/... Global updates
Heart-breaking images from Gaza. There seems to be no limit to the suffering and destruction. I mourn the innocent civilians caught in someone else's fight. And I mourn our hard-fought, if imperfect, rules-based global order, which is being shredded before our eyes.
September 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Heart-breaking images from Gaza. There seems to be no limit to the suffering and destruction. I mourn the innocent civilians caught in someone else's fight. And I mourn our hard-fought, if imperfect, rules-based global order, which is being shredded before our eyes.
1'41" incredibly well-spent. If you only listen to one podcast this month, make it this one. www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...
When Is It Genocide? - Listen on NYT Audio
1 hour 43 min listen - Philippe Sands discusses how to think about the tragedies in Gaza through the lens of international law.
www.nytimes.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
1'41" incredibly well-spent. If you only listen to one podcast this month, make it this one. www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...
Deeply troubling reporting from The Guardian, on Darfur. While the world, largely, looks away. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam
As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held i...
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Deeply troubling reporting from The Guardian, on Darfur. While the world, largely, looks away. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Very thoughtful piece from @richardgowan1.bsky.social at @crisisgroup.org www.crisisgroup.org/global/twili...
The Twilight of International Peacemaking Institutions? | International Crisis Group
In this expanded and edited version of a lecture given to the Geneva Centre for Security Policy on 6 May 2025, Crisis Group expert Richard Gowan explores the dilemmas facing UN conflict management and...
www.crisisgroup.org
July 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Very thoughtful piece from @richardgowan1.bsky.social at @crisisgroup.org www.crisisgroup.org/global/twili...
Building solutions for the world’s 83 million internally displaced persons: Recent lessons on how | IOM Publications Platform
July 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Building solutions for the world’s 83 million internally displaced persons: Recent lessons on how | IOM Publications Platform
Very happy to catch-up with DG Zahra Abdi who leads displacement solutions in Somalia, and President Luisa Celma Caetano Meque who does the same in Mozambique, at the Global
Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction this week! #GPDRR
Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction this week! #GPDRR
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Very happy to catch-up with DG Zahra Abdi who leads displacement solutions in Somalia, and President Luisa Celma Caetano Meque who does the same in Mozambique, at the Global
Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction this week! #GPDRR
Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction this week! #GPDRR
Happy to be spending the next few weeks at the UN's institue for training and research @UNITAR. Learning lots about the training offered by the organisation- more than 500,000 people trained last year!
May 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Happy to be spending the next few weeks at the UN's institue for training and research @UNITAR. Learning lots about the training offered by the organisation- more than 500,000 people trained last year!
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Blocking aid starves civilians. It leaves them without basic medical support. It strips them of dignity and hope. It inflicts a cruel collective punishment. Blocking aid kills.
May 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Blocking aid starves civilians. It leaves them without basic medical support. It strips them of dignity and hope. It inflicts a cruel collective punishment. Blocking aid kills.
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It’s already happening.
Funding cuts have closed nutrition services in 4 out of 7 refugee sites in Ethiopia
80,000 children under 5 are at risk of severe malnutrition.
This is preventable. Funding saves lives.
Funding cuts have closed nutrition services in 4 out of 7 refugee sites in Ethiopia
80,000 children under 5 are at risk of severe malnutrition.
This is preventable. Funding saves lives.
April 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It’s already happening.
Funding cuts have closed nutrition services in 4 out of 7 refugee sites in Ethiopia
80,000 children under 5 are at risk of severe malnutrition.
This is preventable. Funding saves lives.
Funding cuts have closed nutrition services in 4 out of 7 refugee sites in Ethiopia
80,000 children under 5 are at risk of severe malnutrition.
This is preventable. Funding saves lives.
Terrible scenes from Myanmar (and Bangkok) these last 24 hours. My thoughts are with the victims and their families. And the front line responders risking their lives to save others.
March 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Terrible scenes from Myanmar (and Bangkok) these last 24 hours. My thoughts are with the victims and their families. And the front line responders risking their lives to save others.
I remember reaching my first 100 'followers' on Twitter. Seems like a very LONG time ago!! I was in Nepal at the time I think. Focused on peace building, disaster risk reduction and social inclusion...
February 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I remember reaching my first 100 'followers' on Twitter. Seems like a very LONG time ago!! I was in Nepal at the time I think. Focused on peace building, disaster risk reduction and social inclusion...
And now this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/w...
Israeli Police Raid Two Palestinian Bookshops in East Jerusalem
The police said the stores were selling books that supported terrorism and that two members of the family who owned the business had been arrested. A lawyer said their detention was “political” rather...
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
And now this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/w...
I completed my work as the SG's Special Adviser for Solutions to Internal Displacement this week. Working on our 'lessons-learnt' & reflecting on a 2.5 year journey. So much more to do but I think/hope we are all better equipped now - Gov's & UN alike - to support solutions for the displaced.
January 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I completed my work as the SG's Special Adviser for Solutions to Internal Displacement this week. Working on our 'lessons-learnt' & reflecting on a 2.5 year journey. So much more to do but I think/hope we are all better equipped now - Gov's & UN alike - to support solutions for the displaced.
A final meeting with the Secretary-General, as I wind-up my role on internal displacement. It has been such a privilege to serve in this role the last 2.5 years.
December 22, 2024 at 5:54 AM
A final meeting with the Secretary-General, as I wind-up my role on internal displacement. It has been such a privilege to serve in this role the last 2.5 years.
Delighted to join a group of amazing IDP representatives at Mcgill Univ today, to talk about how to improve IDP representation in displacement solutions efforts!
December 6, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Delighted to join a group of amazing IDP representatives at Mcgill Univ today, to talk about how to improve IDP representation in displacement solutions efforts!
Briefing the UN's Peacebuilding Commission in NY this morning. Conflict drives most protracted displacement. We need better conflict prevention & peacebuilding investments in solutions
December 2, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Briefing the UN's Peacebuilding Commission in NY this morning. Conflict drives most protracted displacement. We need better conflict prevention & peacebuilding investments in solutions