Connect to the ACUNS Community
Welcome to the fifth issue of the ACUNS Monthly Bulletin. This electronic publication provides important information about ACUNS programs as well as member publications and opportunities. Individual or institutional members are invited to submit information for inclusion by logging into their ACUNS accounts and completing the Member News Form available on the ACUNS Monthly Bulletin webpage. The next issue of the ACUNS Monthly Bulletin will be published in September.
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Renew ACUNS Membership
Thank you to all members and institutions who have renewed their memberships or joined ACUNS for the first time. As part of its transition into an independent nonprofit organization, ACUNS launched a new website and logo in February 2021. As a result, all past and new members need to complete a registration form and create a new (private) profile. The Expert Directory and its public profiles will be transferred to the new website soon. For more information on membership and to (re)join the organization click here: ACUNS Membership.
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New Board Members
We congratulate and welcome our new Board Members, Dr. Kingsley Moghalu and Dr. Marie McAuliffe. Thank you for your willingness to serve!
Dr. Kingsley Moghalu is the President of the Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation (IGET), a public policy think tank focused on inclusive growth, and the CEO of Sogato Strategies, a global investment advisory firm. He is currently serving as Special Envoy of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Post-Covid Development Finance for Africa. He formerly served as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and Professor of Practice at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He previously served at the United Nations for 17 years in peacekeeping, legal and external affairs in New York, Cambodia, Croatia, Rwanda/Tanzania, and in Switzerland, rising to the highest career rank of Director.
Dr. Marie McAuliffe is the head of the Migration Research Division at the International Organization on Migration (IOM) headquarters in Geneva and Editor of IOM’s flagship World Migration Report. She is an international migration specialist with more than 20 years of experience in migration as a practitioner, program manager, senior official and researcher. She has researched, published and edited widely in academic and policy spheres on migration and is on the editorial boards of scientific journals International Migration and Migration Studies, and is an Associate Editor of the Harvard Data Science Review. She edits IOM’s World Migration Report in partnership with leading migration researchers (2018 edition with Prof Martin Ruhs, 2020 edition with Prof Binod Khadria and the forthcoming 2022 edition with Prof Anna Triandafyllidou).
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ACUNS Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Birkenkötter for winning the 2021 Academic Council on the United Nations System Dissertation Award, for the dissertation, “A Concept at the Very Heart of the Organization’s Mission: Unpacking the Rule of Law in the United Nations.” Dr. Birkenkötter is a research fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Many thanks to the ACUNS Award Committee Chair Professor Heung Soon Park and committee members. The Awards Committee and ACUNS Board would also like to congratulate those receiving Honourable Mentions for the 2021 ACUNS Dissertation Award:
ACUNS thanks all entrants for submitting their work. Note that in 2022, we will hold competitions for the ACUNS Book Award and the Dissertation Award.
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Recent Liaison Office Events
Lise Morjé Howard. “Three Essentials of Power in Peacekeeping,” based on her book Power in Peacekeeping (Cambridge University Press 2019). Presented at the ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office, Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan (GPAJ) and Kyoto Peacebuilding Center (KPC). For more information click here.
Takahiro Shinyo. “The Primacy of Peacemaking: How Kosovo Crisis ended and its lesson to the post-Corona conflict.” Presented at the KPC in Association with the ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office (ACUNS-Tokyo) and GPAJ. For more information click here.
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Submit to Global Governance
Global Governance is the official, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal of ACUNS. It is published quarterly by Brill and showcases the expertise of leading scholars and practitioners. The journal editorial team is currently accepting manuscript submissions for original research articles, as well as shorter, op-ed style commentaries from leading figures for the journal's "Global Forum." For more information click here: ACUNS Global Governance Journal.
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Annual Meeting
The 2021 Annual Meeting, 24-26 June 2021, featured an outstanding global effort with approximately 500 participants from 79 countries spanning the world’s time zones. Recordings of most plenary sessions, including the formal launch of the Global Governance Innovation Network, are available on the ACUNS Youtube Channel. The Annual Meeting included 57 panels and roundtables and highlighted 12 recently published books.
ACUNS thanks all who attended the meeting, presented papers, and made contributions as roundtable participants, chairs, and discussants. A special thanks to our plenary speakers including but not limited to Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, Under-Secretary-General Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, H.E. Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Dr. Ibrahim Gambari, Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, and Dr. Marie McAuliffe.
Please complete a short survey about your ACUNS 2021 Annual Meeting experience. For anyone requiring a Certification of Participation, please request here.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Brill Publishers, Georgetown University, the Stimson Center, Texas A&M School of Law, the University of Tokyo, and our anonymous donor for their generous support to ACUNS. We also thank Raymond Andaya, Banou Arjomand, Urara Furukawa, Dinesh Joshi, Nirvana Khan, Christine Kim, Gabriela Murillo Armijo, Cristine Petcu, Joshi Ratala Prasad, Elaine Shackleton, Emily Todd, and Sarah Wright for their invaluable technical assistance during the 2021 Annual Meeting.
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MEMBER NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
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Recent Publications
Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and Jana Wattenberg. A Gender Framework for Arms Control and Disarmament. Women in International Security. For more information click here.
Joachim Müller. Reforming the United Nations: Fit for purpose at 75? Brill Publishers. For more information click here.
Mohamed Osman. The United Nations and Enforcement: War, Terrorism and Democracy. Routledge. For more information click here.
Wolfang Pape. Opening to Omnilateralsim: Democratic governance for all, from local to global with stakeholders. Author House. For more information click here.
Richard Ponzio, Cristina Petcu, Joris Larik, Banou Arjomand, and William Durch. Beyond UN75: A Roadmap for Inclusive, Networked & Effective Global Governance. The Stimson Center. For more information click here.
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Beyond UN75: A Roadmap for Inclusive, Networked & Effective Global Governance
The Stimson Center launched its latest report, Beyond UN75: A Roadmap for Inclusive, Networked & Effective Global Governance, at the ACUNS Annual Meeting. The report considers the new kinds of tools, networks, and institutions, combined with enlightened global leadership, required to take forward the twelve commitments at the heart of the UN75 Declaration, including through a recommended 2023 World Summit on Inclusive Global Governance.
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The IO BIO Project
The biographical literature on executive heads of IGOs is limited, giving an incomplete picture of the variety of people in these positions and the interactions between them. To overcome this shortcoming IO BIO - the Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of International Organizations - edited by Bob Reinalda, Kent Kille and Jaci Eisenberg, provides short biographies of individual SGs, which are structured in a consistent manner. Over 80 entries, covering some 50 IGOs, are already available at its website. The project is open to contributions. To express an interest in writing an entry please contact us at: iobio [at] fm.ru.nl. For more information please click here.
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Global Governance Innovation Network (GGIN)
On 24 June 2021, the Stimson Center, the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), Plataforma CIPÓ, and Leiden University launched the Global Governance Innovation Network (GGIN) at the 2021 ACUNS Annual Meeting. The GGIN brings world-class scholarship together with international policy-making to address fundamental global governance challenges, threats, and opportunities. Research will focus on the development of institutional, policy, legal, and normative improvements in the international global governance architecture. Watch the video recording and read the event summary
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Human Rights Council: Call for Applications
The Secretariat of the Human Rights Council is now accepting applications for the following additional vacancy: Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, member from Latin American and Caribbean States (Human Rights Council resolution 45/24). This unremunerated United Nations expert position established by the Human Rights Council is expected to be filled at the Council’s 48th session (13 September to 1 October 2021), with the appointment to be made at the end of the session. Individuals seeking appointment should have extensive and internationally recognized professional experience and expertise in the field of human rights with an emphasis on the particular human rights issues to which the positions relate. Learn More
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