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A First Hand View Of What Happens When Aid Funding Dries Up
25 mins; March 30, 2025
Crisis at the UN Refugee Agency and International Organization for Migration | To Save Us From Hell
26 mins; March 26, 2025
The View From Panama
24 mins; March 23, 2025
When Treaties Work: The Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes
25 mins; March 19, 2025
South Sudan is on the Brink of a Full-Blown Civil War
30 mins; March 16, 2025
Trump's War on Women Comes to the UN
34 mins; March 13, 2025
Introducing: "Hidden Depths"
20 mins; March 10, 2025
Our Global Humanitarian System is Collapsing
30 mins; March 05, 2025
Seismic Shift At The UN Following A Jaw-Dropping Vote On Ukraine | To Save Us From Hell
13 mins; March 02, 2025
When Treaties Work: The Mine Ban Treaty
37 mins; February 27, 2025
How Ted Turner Changed the World
32 mins; February 23, 2025
Trump's Anti-DEI Crusade Comes to the UN | To Save Us From Hell
28 mins; February 20, 2025
Has Trump Destroyed Our Defense Against Pandemics?
38 mins; February 16, 2025
Is There a Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine? | The Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov
23 mins; February 13, 2025
Congo in Crisis: What’s Driving the Violence and How Can it End?
30 mins; February 09, 2025
Can the UN Survive Trump 2.0?
43 mins; February 05, 2025
Assessing the Impact of Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze | Jeremy Konyndyk
28 mins; January 29, 2025
Sri Lanka Shows How to Oust a Corrupt Authoritarian Regime and Stop Democratic Backsliding
30 mins; January 26, 2025
What We Learned from Elise Stefanik's Confirmation Hearing for UN Ambassador
47 mins; January 22, 2025
Can the Gaza Ceasefire Hold?
31 mins; January 19, 2025
Why People Believe Misinformation in War
26 mins; January 15, 2025
Better Know Trump's Foreign Policy Team
28 mins; January 12, 2025
What to Expect from the UN in 2025 | To Save Us From Hell
38 mins; January 08, 2025
When Treaties Work: The Chemical Weapons Convention
47 mins; January 05, 2025
How a School Milk Program is Fighting Hunger in Yemen | From Fragility to Stability
20 mins; December 31, 2024
An Inside look at Jimmy Carter's Quest to Kill the Last Guinea Worm
29 mins; December 29, 2024
A Top NGO Official Explains the Difficult Dynamics of Getting Aid into Gaza and Syria
20 mins; December 23, 2024
Putting Women's Empowerment at the Center of Resilience Building | From Fragility to Stability
37 mins; December 19, 2024
Will There Be a Coming Trade War?
30 mins; December 15, 2024
What Syria's Political Future May Look Like | Emma Beals
28 mins; December 11, 2024
What is Biden's Africa Legacy? (And Will Trump Blow It Up?)
24 mins; December 08, 2024
How to Navigate Climate Security and Resilience in the Sahel | From Fragility to Stability
27 mins; December 04, 2024
Why Ebola is No Longer a Great Global Threat
20 mins; December 01, 2024
A Political Earthquake in Botswana
21 mins; November 25, 2024
The Crisis in Haiti Has Taken a Dramatic Turn for the Worse
30 mins; November 20, 2024
A Heavy Shadow Looms Over, COP 29 the Major UN Climate Conference
23 mins; November 17, 2024
How to Escape the Nexus of Climate Change, Conflict and Forced Displacement | From Fragility to Stability
28 mins; November 13, 2024
What the Republican Election Sweep Means for the United Nations
24 mins; November 10, 2024
What Trump's Victory Means For US Foreign Policy | Politico's Robbie Gramer
19 mins; November 06, 2024
The High Geopolitical Stakes of Georgia's Parliamentary Elections
22 mins; November 03, 2024
How Social Assistance Can Improve Mental Health in Fragile Settings | "From Fragility to Stability"
33 mins; October 31, 2024
A New Crisis in Lebanon
25 mins; October 27, 2024
How to Better Deliver Humanitarian and Social Assistance in Fragile Settings | "From Fragility to Stability"
28 mins; October 23, 2024
"The Tech Coup" is a Brilliant New Book That Describes How the Tech Industry Captured Government
27 mins; October 20, 2024
Why "Anticipatory Action" Is Required in Fragile and Conflict Settings | From Fragility to Stability
28 mins; October 16, 2024
Are Sudan's "Emergency Response Rooms" the Future of Humanitarian Assistance?
26 mins; October 13, 2024
How to Bring Food Systems "From Fragility to Stability"  | Introducing Our New Series With CGIAR
61 hours 49 mins; October 09, 2024
How To Responsibly Scale Innovations in Fragile Settings? | "From Fragility to Stability"
25 mins; October 01, 2024
What Happened at the Summit of the Future?
23 mins; September 29, 2024
All About UNGA79 | Richard Gowan and Anjali Dayal
31 mins; September 25, 2024
These Stories Will Drive the Agenda at the United Nations | UNGA79 Preview
26 mins; September 22, 2024
The Geopolitics of Global Trade | Pascal Lamy
28 mins; September 19, 2024
Why Decoupling Between the US and China is a Global Problem (With a Global Solution) | Live from the World Trade Organization
34 mins; September 15, 2024
How the UN in Geneva Shapes Our World | US Ambassador Bathsheba Crocker
21 mins; September 12, 2024
How to Get Expensive Gene Therapy to the Places Where It's Needed Most
18 mins; September 08, 2024
How the International Federation of the Red Cross is Using Innovative Financing to Fund Disaster Response and Preparedness
26 mins; September 05, 2024
What Happened at the Recent Sudan Peace Talks
28 mins; September 01, 2024
An NGO Leader in Afghanistan Explains the Delicate Process of Engaging the Taliban on Women's Rights
24 mins; August 29, 2024
MPox is a Global Health Emergency, Again
20 mins; August 25, 2024
Will Somaliland Get International Recognition?
22 mins; August 18, 2024
The UN Reveals the Latest Trends in World Population
23 mins; August 11, 2024
Is Africa's Debt Crisis a Threat to International Security? | Live from the Aspen Security Forum
20 mins; August 08, 2024
Venezuela's Stolen Election
27 mins; August 04, 2024
What Might a Kamala Harris Foreign Policy Look Like?
20 mins; August 01, 2024
How NOT to Defeat the Houthis in Yemen
23 mins; July 28, 2024
Bangladesh on the Brink
31 mins; July 25, 2024
Alsu Kurmasheva is an American Journalist Detained in Russia
17 mins; July 21, 2024
Can Iran's New President Lower the Temperature in the Middle East?
24 mins; July 18, 2024
How the UK Elections Will Shape Britain's Global Development and Foreign Policy
23 mins; July 14, 2024
China Holds Its Biggest Political Event of the Year | Anja Manuel
20 mins; July 11, 2024
In The South China Sea, Water Gun Fights Risks Nuclear Escalation
30 mins; July 07, 2024
How Sudan Became the Worst Food Crisis in the World
24 mins; July 04, 2024
Protests and a Major Political Turning Point in Kenya
32 mins; June 30, 2024
Can UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon Stop a War Between Israel and Hezbollah?
57 mins; June 27, 2024
Why Burkina Faso is the World's Most Neglected Crisis | Jan Egeland
19 mins; June 23, 2024
What Russia's New Pact With North Korea Means for the United Nations | Debut of "To Save Us From Hell," Our New Podcast About the UN
66 hours 51 mins; June 20, 2024
What Snap Elections in France Mean For Europe and the World
26 mins; June 16, 2024
How Will a Chastened Narendra Modi Lead India?
26 mins; June 12, 2024
Introducing: "To Save Us From Hell," Our New Podcast about the United Nations!
6 mins; June 10, 2024
Are We Really Close to a Ceasefire Deal in Gaza?
32 mins; June 09, 2024
Mexico's Most Violent Election
27 mins; June 05, 2024
A Prison Camp for Islamic State Fighters in Syria is a Humanitarian Disaster and Security Challenge
29 mins; June 02, 2024
How a Novel Solution in Global Development Came To Life
32 mins; May 29, 2024
Why Georgia's Foreign Agents Law Undermines Democracy and Human Rights
21 mins; May 27, 2024
Everything You Want to Know About the ICC Case Involving Israel and Hamas
34 mins; May 22, 2024
Why Can't More Humanitarian Aid Get to Gaza?
29 mins; May 19, 2024
How Civil Society is Contributing to the UN's Summit of the Future
21 mins; May 15, 2024
Why Human Development is Flatlining
25 mins; May 12, 2024
What’s the future of UNRWA? The Struggle for Balance in Gaza’s Aid Operations | Inside Geneva
36 mins; May 08, 2024
A Genocidal Massacre is Looming in Darfur
35 mins; May 05, 2024
Bird Flu is Now Spreading in Dairy Cattle. Are Humans Next?
27 mins; May 01, 2024
The United Kingdom and Rwanda Enter a Dangerous Pact for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
20 mins; April 28, 2024
How The New American Aid Package for Ukraine Will Impact the War
26 mins; April 24, 2024
Can A United Nations Treaty to Curb Plastic Pollution Make it to the Finish Line?
25 mins; April 21, 2024
Iran, Israel and A Perilous Moment in the Middle East
31 mins; April 17, 2024
Sudan's Most Horrible Year
27 mins; April 14, 2024
Can The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees Survive?
30 mins; April 10, 2024
Turkey's Surprising Election Results Puts Erdogan on Notice
23 mins; April 07, 2024
Colombia's Largest and Richest Criminal Armed Group is Getting Stronger
26 mins; April 03, 2024
How "Xi Thought" Shapes Chinese Foreign Policy
32 mins; March 31, 2024