The largest mural in Vienna, Austria, located at the IAEA's HQ in the United Nations Office at Vienna, is up! "Woman With Dove - Shaping Our Common Future" by the renowned #CalleLibre artist Fintan Magee highlights the importance of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and supports the upcoming Summit of the Future in New York.
“Lasting stability should never be taken for granted and will always require ongoing diplomacy and human intervention. Peace is always hard work,” says Fintan Magee about his new masterpiece.
#UNOCityStreetArt#GlobalGoals
Collaborating to quality assurance standards harmonization. Active in several groups aiming to harmonize QMS. Globally deploy a common approach strengthening the Nuclear Supply Chain to achieve the COP28 goals.
The first thing that I see every single morning while looking through the window to check the weather, is "Peace".
Peace is a rose that was created by Meilland, named so because at the first UNO meeting in San Francisco one "peace" rose was offered to each participants.
Like all flowers, to grow, Peace requires constant care and commitment.
If we all cultivate "Peace" in our garden the world will have an amazing smell of roses.
📍💡This year, Paris Peace Forum challenges us to think of how could cooperation look like in a time of rivalry.
It is hard (and I would add, undesirable) not to be sceptical about the applicability of the concept of "effective multilateralism" when you see so many crises gripping the world. Similarly, it seems utopian to talk about peace when humanity is facing the most acute security crises of the last century.
Despite this, French diplomacy is determined to show us that there is room for consistent conversation and cooperation in a time of uncertainty and insecurity. I am happy to be part of the Sciences Po delegation to the Paris Peace Forum 2023 and to have the opportunity to navigate this fascinating marketplace of ideas, with this healthy scepticism and yet great confidence that we can find that "common ground" in a time of competition between great powers.
#ParisPeaceForum2023
At the opening of the second DiplomaticConnect, the DCO Secretary-General, Deemah AlYahya emphasized the crucial need to educate the diplomatic ecosystem on digital trends and transformation. She also shed light on how the digital world is reshaping diplomacy and emphasized the role that the DCO plays in offering useful information and advice in this new era.
Stay tuned for this essential dialogue at the second DCO DiplomaticConnect, as it will shape a connected and inclusive digital future for all.
#DigitalProsperity4All#DiplomaticConnect#2nd_DCO_DiplomaticConnect
Executive Director for International Corporate Affairs, Nawaf Salameh Family Office; former US diplomat, White House/National Security Council & Intelligence official; Senior Fellow, Center for the National Interest
Here is a short clip from my tour d’horizon interview for “Impact International with Cristian Gava” on Romania’s “PRIMA NEWS” TV, which will air 20 April. In this segment we discuss the challenges of religious diplomacy and “religious freedom” at a sensitive and volatile moment in relations between the Middle East, the birthplace of great faith traditions, and a Western world that is becoming more ideologically and aggressively secularist by the day.
Discover the power of digital diplomacy and global IT with DP Sharma, PhD! Join us at the IT industry expo as Dr. Sharma charts the navigational path for the future for upcoming businesses. Don't miss his keynote address and explore the pivotal path to bringing the world together.
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Today is a day of remembrance, a day to honour the soldiers who lost their lives in battle during WWI and to mourn the civilians who perished as well.
In light of current events, this day serves as a reminder to all of us Europeans that peace is not a given; it is something our peers have built, step by step, treaty by treaty, and by learning from past conflicts. Something fragile, easily broken if we divert our attention for too long.
The bond of friendship that unites us in our daily lives feels obvious. Our youth study all across Europe through the Erasmus programme, and we travel freely, hardly noticing the borders that once divided us. The Europe we know today is one of diplomacy, cooperation, and dialogue.
May this day remind us that, while we are all deeply moved by the commemorations, that it is the duty of each and every one of us to actively work for a world where the dark moments of History do not repeat themselves. The lasting peace we've experienced is Europe's most precious achievement—let's preserve it.
#November11
Revisiting Thucydides: Ruminations of the Future of U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy in an Age of Great Power Competition | Matthew F. Smith
'While war between the United States and China is a possibility, a larger and more refined lesson could be gleaned from Thucydides’ ancient text. In an era of great power competition, The Peloponnesian War provides one of the first nearly complete histories of a conflict that included complex alliances, ideologically opposing views, civil discord, diplomacy, total war, and human struggle.'
#Thucydides#PeloponnesianWar#US-China
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Excited to announce that my article on the latest unrest in New Caledonia has been published in the Oxford Diplomatic Society journal, the Oxford Diplomatic Dispatch, alongside contributions from a high commissioner and a senior research fellow at Chatham House!
In the article, I explore recent developments in the region, including contentious voting reforms and allegations of foreign interference, which have reignited levels of violence not seen since the 1998 Nouméa Accord.
I argue that since the 2021 AUKUS debacle, France’s image in the Indo-Pacific has been severely diminished. Losing control of the archipelago, whether through insurrection or peaceful independence, would represent the latest domino to fall for French security strategists.
Paris must heed the lessons of the humiliating defeats in Western and Central Africa; it is enough to simply say that things have changed. Relationships between the French government and its former colonies have always worked best when they are truly based on equality and the dismantling of exploitative structures. Attempts to forcefully quell dissent and prevent free expression always leave France burnt and foreign actors swooping in to replace them.
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Researcher and analyst ex IBI World Ltd. - Freelance journalist - Professor of electronics, electrical engineering and aircraft board automation - I cover geopolitics, history, macroeconomic analysis, finance, physics
RUSSIA-CHINA: PARTNERSHIP AND COMPETITION
Towards the vassalization of Russia?
“Sino-Russian relations are imbalanced in a way that can be summed up by a ratio of 1 to 10: Russia's population is 1/10 that of China; Sino-Russian trade represents, with some fluctuations, 1/10 of trade with the United States and the countries of the European Union; Russia does not yet supply even 1/10 of Chinese consumption needs.
But "vassal status" would imply a tension that does not currently exist between Beijing and Moscow, at a time when "unlimited friendship" is being declared. While Russia accounted for around 50% of its trade with the EU just a few years ago, Sino-Russian trade has grown rapidly, reaching a record $190 billion in 2022.
The relationship is therefore more complex than it seems, for both technical and political reasons. It is in China's interest to obtain energy products from Russia at the best possible price; Russia must imperatively replace the traditional gas market with that of Europe, due to sanctions. But the gas pipelines needed for massive exports have insufficient capacity.
The "Siberian Force 2" project, whose stated final objective is to supply 50 billion cubic meters per year, will not be launched until 2024; five years of construction work will be needed to build 2,600 km of pipes, at an investment of probably between 10 and 15 billion dollars. Faced with this mutual dependence until 2030, what will the two countries do?”
► Extraits de "Russia-China: Partnership and Competition"
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(Dr Linda Restrepo Editor/Publisher)
Even when I disagree or partially disagree, articles written by Patrick PASCAL are always a source of sap for further study. This piece is a precious and unique gem that deserves the utmost attention! Hearty congratulations to the always attentive Patrick PASCAL an thank you, as usual, to Linda Restrepo !
Nothing happens by chance and so, in this moment I am writing a long article dealing with the Pandemia. What it seems to be emerging from the whole string of facts that I have taken in exam is that on the table there is a sort of project based on an apparent divisive behavior of USA and China which are oriented to build up something very very similar with the Cold War even if in a totally connected geopolitical context that, starting from the construction of two well separated areas of reciprocal influence can lead to a shared division of the whole world in two parts commercially interconnected but politically divided in a perfect accordance to the ancient Roman aphorism “divide et impera”. Generally what it seems it is not what it really is
Collaborating to quality assurance standards harmonization. Active in several groups aiming to harmonize QMS. Globally deploy a common approach strengthening the Nuclear Supply Chain to achieve the COP28 goals.
1wThe first thing that I see every single morning while looking through the window to check the weather, is "Peace". Peace is a rose that was created by Meilland, named so because at the first UNO meeting in San Francisco one "peace" rose was offered to each participants. Like all flowers, to grow, Peace requires constant care and commitment. If we all cultivate "Peace" in our garden the world will have an amazing smell of roses.