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-19 posts tagged "United Nations"
Peter Breen | Monday, March 6, 2023
When first-year Adam Akan, a nationally recognized high school Model United Nations delegate, went to Activities Night this fall in Notre Dame Stadium, he was shocked to find zero representatives from Model UN. “There was no table, and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is not real,’” Akan said. “You think at a school
Liam Kelly | Thursday, January 26, 2023
“The only solution is to defeat Putin sooner rather than later,” Taras Dobko, vice-rector of Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) said during a virtual flash panel on the war in Ukraine hosted by the Nanovic Center for European Studies Wednesday afternoon. Dobko was joined by Law School professor Mary Ellen O’Connell and political science professor Michael
Maxwell Feldmann | Tuesday, September 13, 2022
The University of Notre Dame welcomed Catherine Arnold as a guest speaker at the Eck Visitor Center on Sept. 12. Arnold is a British academic administrator and former UK diplomat. Since Oct. 2019, she has been the Master of St Edmund’s College at the University of Cambridge. Arnold is the fifteenth person to hold that
Liam Price | Monday, February 7, 2022
Since signing the Charter of the United Nations in 1945, the only violation of Article 2, Paragraph 4 of the charter, which declares that no state can use military force to conquer another state’s territory, was in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Russia had about 130,000 troops stationed at the Ukrainian border, as of Feb.
Trevor Lwere | Monday, January 24, 2022
Last week, the ninth ministerial meeting of the African Union Committee of Ten Heads of State and Government (C-10) was held in Kampala, Uganda. The C-10 was set up in 2005 by the African Union (AU) with a mandate to advocate and canvass the African Common Position on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reform. The
Bella Laufenberg | Friday, November 19, 2021
Representatives and leaders from around the world have recently convened for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) to participate in discussions regarding climate change and environmental policy. Notre Dame associate professor of environmental policy for the Keough School of Global Affairs, Daniel Miller, leads a group called the Forests and Livelihoods: Assessment, Research
Katherine Ross | Thursday, September 9, 2021
A panel of scholars convened over Zoom Wednesday to speak about the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, the severity of climate change and how humanity can adapt to a reality of extreme weather. The scholars called for a change in behavior for the future while humans still have the chance to prevent
Trevor Lwere | Monday, October 12, 2020
Exactly 75 years ago, as World War II raged on, leaders of the Allied Powers and their allies met in San Francisco to design a post-war world order. The United Nations (U.N.) was, thus, born with the primary aim of maintaining international peace and stability. In the 75 years since its founding, there has not
Observer Staff Report | Sunday, May 3, 2020
Emeritus political science professor Gilburt Loescher died Tuesday of heart failure at 75, Notre Dame announced in a press release. Loescher survived a terrorist attack in Baghdad in August 2003, when he traveled to meet with U.S. ambassador Paul Brenner at the U.N. headquarters at the Canal Hotel. Minutes after Loescher arrived, a suicide bomber detonated
Oliver Ortega | Tuesday, September 24, 2019
When it comes to climate change, Greta Thunberg doesn’t play. The 16-year-old Swedish activist spent last week chastising lawmakers in Washington for their inaction before leading a global climate strike by millions of young people Friday — after sailing across the Atlantic in August on a zero-emissions yacht, deliberately foregoing air travel because of its