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16 December 2024, New York, USA - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Michelle Gyles-McDonnough of Jamaica as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). She will officially assume her duties on 22 February 2025, succeeding Nikhil Seth of India, to whom the Secretary-General expressed profound gratitude for his dedication and contributions to the United Nations.With over 30 years of experience in sustainable development, policy advocacy, international trade, international rel...
CEO, Strategic Social Marketing
Prof. Jeff French is a global thought leader in the fields of behavioural influence, social marketing, social communication, and citizen focused programme planning and evaluation. He has published over 100 academic papers and five books, plus numerous guides and toolkits on these subjects, including the European Centre for Disease Control’s first technical guidance on social marketing.
Prof. French is a visiting Professor at Brighton University and a Fellow at Kings College London University. He teaches at four other universitie...
国連事務総長、ミシェル・ジャイルズ＝マクドノー 氏を国連ユニタール総代表に任命
ティム・コーリー（Tim Caughley）氏は、国連軍縮研究所（UNIDIR）の非常駐上級研究員であり、2015年からアジア各国の外交官や軍事顧問を対象に、国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）の核軍縮・不拡散広島研修事業の研修顧問・講師を担っています。核軍縮に関する研修に相応しい歴史的背景を持つ広島で実施されるこの研修事業は、外交官にとって特別な機会を提供します。核戦争は今後20年間、脅威として残り続けることが想定され、コーリー氏は、外交官が核軍縮と不拡散を実現するためのスキルを習得する必要があることを強調しています。, 2023年5月16日、広島 - ティム・コーリー氏は、国連軍縮研究所（UNIDIR）の非常駐上級研究員です。UNIDIRでの勤務以前は、在ジュネーブの国連軍縮部長、ジュネーブ軍縮議会の副議長、在ジュネーブ・ニュージーランド国連代表部の大使及び軍縮大使を務めました。2015年以降、ティム・コーリー氏は、国連ユニタール核軍縮・不拡散広島研修事業を通じて、アジア各国の外交官や軍縮に携わる政府職員を指導しています。国連ユニタール広島事務所が20周年を迎える中、世界で活躍してきた核軍縮の専門家として、広島からの外交官研修の重要性について振り返ります。, 長年にわたり核軍縮分野に携わってきたコーリー氏は、国連ユニタールの同研修は、外交官が...
Women Forward International is a global platform for systemic change in international affairs education, reorienting research towards the principals of unity, collaboration, and service. We create unique partnerships that lead to behavioral changes that advance women to advance humanity.
WFI partners with a range of private sector, academic and non-profit clients to identify research critical to human progress, and then pairs teams of graduate students with these organizations to complete that research and implement solutions. WFI then funds the implementation of th...
The Youth Climate Dialogues Spread Out in the Francophone World!
9 June 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - "Climate change affects the entire planet, if we act here at home, there will also be impacts on you, if tomorrow the world will no longer know about climate change, it will be thanks to the children of today", Milan, 14 yrs, France.
Close to 120 students from France, Benin and Burkina Faso exchanged their perpectives and experiences on climate change during two Youth Climate Dialogues (YCD) in May 2017. How does climate change affect my life? What can we do to fight…
Hiroshima’s Green, Timeless Legacy
By Nassrine Azimi (the original article was published in the UN Special, February 2018 edition)
Hiroshima – At 8h15, on the morning of Monday 6 August 1945, the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by a single atomic bomb. Code-named ‘Little Boy’ the bomb exploded 600 meters above the city center, burning alive tens of thousands of people at first impact.
By the end of that apocalyptic year, more than a third of Hiroshima citizens – including most of its doctors, nurses and first aid helpers – had died. As catastrophic conditions…
21-23 August 2013, Eldoret, Kenya- Building Resilience to Climate-Related Risks was the central theme of the 35th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF 35), which took place in Eldoret, Western Kenya.
The Forum was an interactive event bringing together applications experts from critical socio-economic sectors, governmental and non-governmental organizations, decision-makers, scientists, civil society stakeholders among others, to reflect on the implications for critical climate-sensitive sectors of the projected seasonal climate outlook for the region for…
UNITAR Organizes Course on Climate Change for Sustainable Development
28 April 2017, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) organized a workshop entitled “Climate Change for Sustainable and Green Development” taught by Professor Narinder Kakar, a accredited Permanent Observer to the UN for the United Nations mandated University for Peace. He also serves as Director and Adjunct Professor on UN Environmental Diplomacy Programme at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law of Pace University. The workshop began with a few opening remarks by Mr…
Interview Series on National Human Rights Institutions and the International Human Rights System
11 – 13 March 2015, Geneva, Switzerland - On the occasion of the International Coordination Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC) 28th General Meeting, UNITAR and the ICC are recording a series of video interviews with a selected group of ICC members, other relevant stakeholders and representatives of UN agencies, to capture their thoughts and rich experiences on the work of the ICC and of the NHRIs both at the national and international level.
During these…