The NZ think-tank seeking answers to the 'global questions'
- How does ‘global studies’ better inform the political, professional, and academic communities about world affairs in the 21st century?
- What is the difference between the ‘global community of peoples’ and the ‘international community of states’; and how do they inter-relate?
- How do the Centre’s ‘structural programmes’ (global citizenship; global governance; global law) inter-relate; and how do they influence the Centre’s ‘thematic programmes’ (global security; global sustainability’)?
- How to bring 20th thought – the foundation of the international system – into the 21st c. with optimal balance between stability and creativity, to solve our contemporary global problems?
- How to ensure that current ‘global dynamics’, both spatial (inter-regional) and temporal (inter-generational) are harnessed most effectively in the global public interest?
Events
Religions for Peace
The Centre is planning to host a Webinar Talk in September by Prof Azza Karam, former UN official, Professor of Theology, and Secretary-General of Religions for Peace International. Details to foll...
October 31 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pmClimate Change – Inter-parliamentary research
The Centre’s Director has been appointed by the EU & International IDEA as project writer for the INTER-PARES project for the climate change theme. The aim is to assist MPs around the worl...
September 30 @ 6:00 pmUN Reform Project
The Centre is collaborating with the UN Association of New Zealand in a joint research project on ‘Reforming Multilateral Institutions’. The project coordinators are Dr Kennedy Graham (N...
September 30 @ 12:00 pm
Global Governance
On 5 August, the Centre will be co-hosting with the NZ Centre for Public Law a webinar Lecture by Dr Augusto Lopez-Claros, internationally-renowned economist, whose co-edited book has just been publis...
August 5 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmAggression as a crime
On 30 April the Director and Prof Neil Boister testified verbally to Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the ‘Certain Weapons’ amendment to the Rome Statute, following t...
April 30 @ 5:00 pm
Recent Blog Posts
Reform of the UN Security Council:
The potential of India
India was recently elected to the Security Council for the two-year period, 2021-22. What does this portend for the UN – and for India? As a serious player within the UN system and also as...
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Trans-national River Issues
Trusteeship as a model of governance
The Australian bushfires and the Indian floods, both of 2019, are just a glimpse into some disproportionate consequences of the global climate crisis that is upon us. Current international law systems have proven to be...
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Global Peacemaking or Peacebuilding?
US support for Afghanistan needs a reset
The weak-kneed efforts at strengthening global security in recent decades are desperately in need of a reset. Nowhere is this more palpably obvious than in Afghanistan, along of course with Syria, Yemen and Libya. But...
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Aviation & Global Sustainability, Pt II
Shifting attitudes
Aviation is a force for good. It broadens the mind. It connects people with new cultures, experiences, places and opportunities; and it underpins the global economy. Yet, its dependency on fossil fuel is harmful. What,...
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