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Are you curious about the power of international cooperation? And how it affects our future? Then tune in to the #NextPagePod, the podcast designed to advance the conversation on multilateralism!
Each episode delves into global issues through a multilateral lens exploring how collaboration across disciplines can facilitate reaching common goals.
Produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva, an evolving house of knowledge specializing in multilateralism, this podcast brings you conversations with experts, recordings of Library events and insights into the UN.
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Building Peace that Lasts - a conversation with Itonde Kakoma
We invited Itonde Kakoma, the new President and CEO of Interpeace, to talk about the mission of Interpeace – an organization that had its origins in the UN and works to prevent violence and build lasting peace. Interpeace has over 30 years of experience working in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
In this conversation with the Director of the UN Library & Archives, Francesco Pisano, Itonde Kakoma talks about inclusive peacebuilding, a participatory approach and a vision of peace anchored in the cohesion and resilience of citizens, the diversity and inclusion of communities and the responsiveness and trustworthiness of State institutions. They discuss the obstacles around implementing the strategic aims of rethinking peace, enhancing resilience and embedding peace, as well as the nexus between peacebuilding and multilateralism.
Resources
Interpeace website: https://www.interpeace.org/
Where to listen to this episode
Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-page/id1469021154
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/10fp8ROoVdve0el88KyFLy
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/
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Guest: Itonde Kakoma, President, Interpeace
Host: Francesco Pisano
Producer: Amy Smith
Editing and social media designs: Mengna Chen
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Pan-European economic integration and the role of UNECE
A conversation with Under-Secretary-General Tatiana Molcean, Executive Secretary of UNECE
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is one of the five Regional Commissions of the United Nations. ECE was set up in 1947 to promote pan-European economic integration. Francesco Pisano met with UNECE’s new Executive Secretary, Ms. Tatiana Molcean for a conversation on the role of the Commission and how it serves multilateralism. They also talk about the vision for European economic integration and the challenges currently facing the wider European region.
Resources
UNECE website:https://unece.org/
Where to listen to this episode
Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-page/id1469021154
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/10fp8ROoVdve0el88KyFLy
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R06Hz-T2C0M&t=3s
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Guest: Tatiana Molcean, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of UNECE
Host: Francesco Pisano
Producer: Amy Smith
Editing and social media designs: Mengna Chen
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A Breakthrough: six transformative shifts (Part II) with Adam Day
Will we have a breakthrough or a breakdown? In this second episode with Adam Day, Head of the Geneva Office of the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, we continue the exploration of the Six Transformative Shifts proposed by the High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism for a more secure and sustainable future.
Adam Day talks with Francesco Pisano, Director of the Library & Archives about the second three shifts: digital and data governance, peace and prevention and anticipatory action. They also discuss how the UN architecture that was set up post-World War II has aged and what a review of the UN Charter would look like.
Resources
HLAB Report:https://highleveladvisoryboard.org/breakthrough/
Our Common Agenda policy briefs: https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda/policy-briefs
United Nations University Centre for Policy Research: https://unu.edu/cpr/abouthttps://unu.edu/explore
Slaughter, A.-M. (2017). The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World. Yale University Press.
Previous episodes with Adam Day:
A Breakthrough. Part I: https://unitednationslibrarygeneva.podbean.com/e/a-breakthrough-six-transformative-shifts-part-i/
A time for change and effective multilateralism – a conversation with Adam Day | The Next Page (podbean.com)
Where to listen to this episode
Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-page/id1469021154
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/10fp8ROoVdve0el88KyFLy
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R06Hz-T2C0M&t=3s
Content
Guest: Adam Day
Host: Francesco Pisano
Producer: Amy Smith
Editing and social media designs: Menga Chen
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A Breakthrough: Six Transformative Shifts (Part I)
In this and the following episode, we take a deep dive with Adam Day, Head of the Geneva Office of the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, into the Six Transformative Shifts proposed by the High-Level Advisory Board (HLAB) on Effective Multilateralism for a more secure and sustainable future.
Here, in part 1, Adam Day talks with Francesco Pisano, Director of the Library & Archives, about the first three shifts: rebuilding trust in multilateralism; planet and people; and global finance. They talk about re-thinking what consensus means, making multilateralism inclusive and the rights of future generations. Adam also focuses on the vital need to elevate environmental issues, he discusses peace as a public good, and looks at the viable yet ambitious track on finance.
Resources
Previous episode with Adam Day: A time for change and effective multilateralism – a conversation with Adam Day | The Next Page (podbean.com)
HLAB Report:https://highleveladvisoryboard.org/breakthrough/
Our Common Agenda policy briefs: https://www.un.org/en/common-agenda/policy-briefs
United Nations University: https://unu.edu/explore
Where to listen to this episode
Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-page/id1469021154
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/10fp8ROoVdve0el88KyFLy
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R06Hz-T2C0M
Content
Guest: Adam Day, Head of the Geneva Office, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research
Host: Francesco Pisano
Producer: Amy Smith
Editing and social media designs: Menga Chen
Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva
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Chile in the U.N. and in the world
We are starting our 2024 series with an episode with H.E. Mrs. Claudia Fuentes Julio, Permanent Representative of Chile.
Ambassador Fuentes Julio talks about her interesting career path into diplomacy and representing her country. She tells us about the geography of Chile, bounded between the magnificent Andes and the vast Pacific Ocean, and she relates some of the history of Chile and its long connection with multilateralism, including as a founding Member of the United Nations.
Where to listen to this episode
Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-page/id1469021154
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/10fp8ROoVdve0el88KyFLy
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdlO3HCabTk
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Speakers: Ambassador Claudia Fuentes Julio
Host: Francesco Pisano
Producer: Amy Smith
Editing and social media designs: Menga Chen
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Knowledge matters in incomprehensible times
In this end of year episode, Francesco Pisano, Director of the Library & Archives and senior managers Sigrun Habermann and Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert, find themselves on the other side of the table to talk about why knowledge matters in our times, whether libraries matter, what expertise we need and what digitization, technology and AI can mean for knowledge services.
Together, they come up with an innovative list of wishes to bring you advanced knowledge services for work and research in multilateralism.
Resources:
https://www.ungeneva.org/en/library-archives
Where to listen to this episode
Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-page/id1469021154
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/10fp8ROoVdve0el88KyFLy
YouTube:
Content
Speakers: Francesco Pisano, Sigrun Habermann, Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert
Host: Amy Smith
Producer: Amy Smith
Editing & social media: Mengna Chen, Amy Smith
Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva