UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres discusses climate change in this special episode of the Global Dispatches podcast. On Tuesday, September 17th Antonio Guterres sat down with Mark Her...
17 Sep 201921min
The UN Climate Action Summit, Explained
The UN General Assembly convenes at United Nations headquarters in New York next week. As in every year, UNGA is an annual opportunity for heads of state to come to the United Nations to meet each oth...
16 Sep 201917min
What's Next for the Peace Process in Afghanistan?
In late August it appeared that the United States was very close to an agreement with the Taliban that would see US troops withdraw from the Afghanistan. Leading the negotiations on the US-side was Za...
12 Sep 201921min
Why Are Journalists Going Missing in Tanzania?
Tanzania has long been recognized as stable country, generally more advanced in its democracy than many other countries in East Africa. To be sure, democracy in Tanzania was certainly imperfect and fl...
9 Sep 201930min
Japan and South Korea Are Locked in A Bitter Dispute With Global Implications
Japan and South Korea are in the throws of a dispute - and its getting worse. What was a trade war escalated to the security realm last month when the South Korean government announced that it was pul...
5 Sep 201927min
Greg Stanton Fights Genocide -- and Genocide Haunts Him
Greg Stanton has spent a career researching and fighting genocide. He speaks candidly about the psychological toll of this line of work and managing the PTSD which he confronts to this day. Stanton i...
2 Sep 201959min
Jair Bolsonaro and the Destruction of the Amazon
Fires raging in the Amazon have captured the world's attention and put focus on the policies of the Brazilian government. The true extent of the fires is not yet known--but most sources suggest that ...
29 Aug 201931min
Research Uncovers a Link Between the Cost of Getting Married and the Outbreak of Conflict
About 75% of the world's population live in societies that practice of form of dowry payment. This is also known as brideprice and it is essentially wealth that a potential husband must pay to the fam...
26 Aug 201936min
