LSE Festival 2022
The Future of the United Nations
Saturday 18 June 2022 4.00pm to 5.00pm
Marshall Building
Hosted by LSE Festival: How Do We Get to a Post-COVID World?
Speakers:
Martin Binder is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading and a member of their UN and Global Order Programme.
Devika Hovell is Associate Professor in Public International Law at LSE. Her current research includes an investigation of the UN Security Council’s authority and decision-making.
Mathias Koenig-Archibugi is Associate Professor of Global Politics in the Department of Government and Department of International Relations at LSE. His research interests focus on the governance of global issues, especially in the area of health and labour rights, and on the possibility of democratising global politics.
Chair:
Karen E Smith, Professor of International Relations at LSE.
Is the United Nations still able to perform its intended role as forum for global deliberation, negotiation, and policymaking? Multilateralism seems in crisis precisely when it is needed most. Challenges are multifaceted and originate from established, emerging and declining powers.
In his address to the UN Security Council in April 2022, President Zelenskyy of Ukraine said: “It is now clear that the goals set in San Francisco in 1945 during the creation of a global international security organisation have not been achieved. And it is impossible to achieve them without reforms. Therefore, we must do everything in our power to pass on to the next generations an effective UN with the ability to respond preventively to security challenges and thus guarantee peace.”
What reforms could revitalise the UN and what are the prospects of them being enacted?
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This event is part of the LSE Festival: How Do We Get to a Post-COVID World? running from Monday 13 to Saturday 18 June 2022.
This event is free and open to all, but a ticket is required. Online booking for events in the LSE Festival will open on Monday 16 May 2022.
For any queries email events@lse.ac.uk.