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This interactive workshop will be an introduction to the Columbia Law School Mediation Clinic's Skills Training Course, recognized by the New York Unified Court System, which will be offered in conjunction with UNITAR this coming fall.

Watch UNITAR x Columbia University Fall 2024 - Mediation Skills Training!

A cross-regional South-South Policy Dialogue on energy, sustainable finance, and enterprises for and enhancing NDC ambition. The policy dialogue will be held between 20-21 November 2024 at the Just Transition Pavilion during the COP29. It is an ILO led event in joint collaboration and support from the UN-PAGE programme (that bring five agencies: ILO, UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO and UNITAR).

Watch From vision to practice for a just transition for all - Part 1!

Concrete solutions for an inclusive and successful summit of the future and youth focused multi-level governance innovation, in line with SDG 16. The ECOSOC Youth Forum 2024 side event entitled "Informal Youth Summit of the Future and Local Pacts for the Future" is being organized by the UN ECOSOC accredited civil society organization IAAI GloCha in collaboration with the International Youth Conference (IYC), GloCha Global Challenges Foundation New York Inc., UN Habitat - Youth Programme, UN Environment - Early Warning and Data Analytics Branch and AFS Intercultural Programs.  This event aims to discuss pathways towards youth-led transformative change and effective youth participation in the UN system in the context of preparations for the UN Summit of the future.  A key agenda item of the event are the exploration of the feasibility and the collaborative planning of organizational details of an "informal Youth Summit of the Future", a proposal that has been developed by members of the Internation Youth Conference (IYC). The proposed informal Youth Summit of the Future will feature non-state actors' led programs and events focused on youth capacity building, strategy development, edutainment and action planning, envisioning transformative global governance innovation. The informal Youth Summit of the Future programs will be supported by the side event organizers, and enabled by solutions, that have been developed by the Global Challenges Action Empowerment partnership GloCha (like Local Pacts for the Future, Challenges Mapping, GloCha Streaming TV, DigitalArt4Climate, GloCha Festival, ..) which help leveraging youth creativity and knowledge for global and local action towards the SDGs.

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Watch the Informal Youth Summit of the Future and Local Pacts for the Future –Pathways towards youth led transformative change (Youth Forum Side Event)

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Prepare yourselves for an extraordinary collaboration between KCB and UNITAR. Together they are launching an innovative project that will revolutionize the boda boda sector and create green job opportunities. Brace yourselves for the e bike revolution! Heres’ what you need to know: KCB, known for their generous financing options. Will be providing loans to riders who want to embrace electric…

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York office is organizing a side event together with a team of Brazilian scholars (professors and Ph.D. student) to bring data-intensive insight into the United Nations processes. The tools will support information gathering and decision-making in areas crucial to the Organization, its Member States, and civil society on energy, security, and multilateralism.

The side event will transmit valuable information to different Divisions of the United Nations, Member States, and stakeholders on Energy: through a web application providing data and analysis on international energy cooperation based on thousands of agreements between countries and organizations since Rio92; Security: via an interactive tool displaying over 80 thousand speeches delivered by UN Security Council members since 1992; Multilateralism: through an interactive corpus containing the approximately 18 thousand resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly since its foundations and their citation trends.

Event Objectives

Development of easy access to information on the evolution of the United Nations as told by its most cited resolutions and citation patterns.

Address big data challenges from creating datasets to performing data analysis and building interactive platforms.

Put science at the service of diplomacy to enable better-informed decisions and more equitable global cooperation.

The world is experiencing breakthrough science and technological advances at an unprecedented speed. These discoveries will reshape how we view ourselves as humans, how we relate to each other in society and how we care for our environment. To prepare for this future, our current and future scientific, diplomatic, and business leaders need to understand and jointly promote anticipatory Science & Diplomacy as an effective tool for a renewed multilateralism.

Initiated by the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator, the Geneva Coalition on Anticipatory Science and Diplomacy was created in 2021 by 14 Swiss and global institutions to empower the current and next generation of leaders with a «multilingual» mindset in science and diplomacy to navigate the science-diplomacy interface and foster boundary-spanning professionals and institutions.

Hosted in the historic Palais des Nations – the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva – and organized in partnership with the key international agencies, diplomatic missions, academic institutions, global NGOs and technology leaders shaping the future of multilateralism, the Science Diplomacy Week will provide an unparalleled immersion, learning and networking experience into the Science and Diplomacy ecosystem of International Geneva.

Learning Objectives

The Science & Diplomacy Week will help you:

- Understand the growing importance of anticipatory science diplomacy as an emerging discipline that unites science with world affairs. - Learn about the most significant scientific breakthroughs in five, 10, and 25 years and their impact on people, society and the planet. - Jointly devise with science and policy leaders from around the world the future diplomatic envelopes needed to embrace science advances for the greatest benefit of humanity, while minimizing their risks and undesirable consequences. - Learn to apply cutting-edge anticipation methodologies, scientific insights and quantitative methods to diplomatic practices for improving negotiation processes, international conflict resolution and global governance for responding to global challenges. - Get an insider view of International Geneva as the global hub of Science and Diplomacy for multilateralism and network with its key actors. - Participate in a “Multilateralism Lab” with simulations and scenarios to help shape the future of science diplomacy

Content and Structure

The programme will focus on the four GESDA thematic areas:

- Advanced artificial intelligence and the quantum revolution - Global health and human augmentation - Climate change, decarbonization and the future of the global commons - Anticipatory science diplomacy tools and new diplomatic methods

Programme content:

- Interactive workshops, simulation exercises and negotiations based on the GESDA Science Breakthrough Radar® and anticipatory “Situation Room” methodology, on topics ranging from carbon capture and climate-altering technologies to neuro rights, gene editing, AI and quantum technologies. - Expert dialogues, institutional visits and receptions with members of the Coalition and external partners on key anticipatory science and diplomacy topics. - Public activities and events to stimulate engagement and reflection outside the disciplinary expert circles and promote public outreach on Anticipatory Science & Diplomacy. - Private visits to key institutions and high-level networking opportunities with Geneva-based international actors. - Skills building and career development sessions to foster the next generation of ‘multilingual’ scientists and diplomats.

Methodology

Moving away from the one-way training model, all participants in the Science Diplomacy Week are experts in their own fields, and will simultaneously act as trainees and trainers, with ample opportunities for peer exchange, mutual learning and expert input.

Most sessions will be delivered in an experiential learning format (e.g., interactive workshops, simulation negotiations), where participants are assigned different roles, sometimes close to their background, expertise and sector, but most of the time they will be placed in the shoes of another stakeholder to learn about their perspective, understand the trade-offs and competing interests, build trust across sectors, and develop a “multilingual science and diplomacy mindset”.

Participants will also have access to public lectures, events and networking opportunities during the Science Diplomacy Week Open Forum.

GESDA - UNITAR Science and Diplomacy Week 2023.

8 May 2023 - 12May 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland.