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UN Summit on Climate Change in Paris – Destined to Fail or Succeed?

Climate change is high on the global policy agenda. Not only this is a priority area for the UN and its Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ; political, business and religious leaders, including Pope Francis, have joined the plea to take action on slowing down global warming. Despite recent terror attacks in Paris, leaders of more than 120 nations ...

27.11.2015

The Syrian Refugee Crisis. Can Brazil really afford to take 50,000 syrian refugees?

While Brazil's “strategic allies” --Germany and France-- are now turning away Syrians and other refugees Brazil has already provided asylum to 2,900 people presumed to be Syrian nationals fleeing the bloody civil war. The United States, which open sources indicate is spending billions of dollars to provide asylum to refugees from many nations, including Syria, operates sophisticated screening operations to examine the backgrounds of asylum seekers. As seen by the refugee ...

14.11.2015

RIAC Signs a MoU with UN Alliance of Civilizations

On October 27, 2015, RIAC President Igor Ivanov and UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation between the two organizations. The document lays out a plan for development of joint programs and events for reaching ...

27.10.2015

What is right vs. what works

Just in time for recapping the polarized choices presented by President Obama and President Putin at The United Nations General Assembly. In Foreign Policy there is a struggle between two concepts which every nation must face. There is the idealist perspective which promotes what is right under societal values and norms (which differ per culture), and there ...

05.10.2015

Who Rescues the Rescuers: UN Humanitarian Agencies in Crisis

As EU leaders find themselves hard-pressed to implement a quota system to resettle refugees flooding to the Union’s borders, the search for long-term sustainable solutions to the crisis continues. On September 14 th , British Prime Minister David Cameron visited a camp run by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in eastern Lebanon just a stone’s throw ...

28.09.2015

Can Russia and the West Cooperate in Syria?

Relations between Russia and the United States were already bad two years ago. Even before the problems in Ukraine began, Moscow had granted temporary asylum to former NSA intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and disagreements were deepening between the two countries. U.S. President Barack ...

20.09.2015

BRICS- Why is Brazil's Lula helping Argentina crash the party?

... shifted her focus to strategizing for her campaign to win a second term as president and “BRICSA” became a dead letter. Lula leaps in Last week, while Dilma and her group of Workers' Party insiders was negotiating the survival of her unraveling coalition, Lula was on an uncharacteristically long (one week) political junket to Argentina and Paraguay, ostensibly to promote bilateral trade and strengthen economic ties among Mercosul nations, another problematic issue. In Buenos Aires,...

17.09.2015

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Moving from peacekeeping to peacebuilding Moving from peacekeeping to peacebuilding Project Page http://russiancouncil.ru/en/un

15.09.2015
 

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