18 abril, 2020
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18 abril, 2020
por Felipe Sahagún
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Annual SIPRI lectures (Albright’s, postponed to May 2021)
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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute is proud to announce that the third annual SIPRI Lecture will honour HE Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State of the United States. The lecture will be held on 24 May 2021.
The lecture was originally planned to take place in May 2020, but because of ongoing restrictions due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), SIPRI has decided to postpone the lecture until next year. SIPRI looks forward to welcoming HE Madeleine Albright to deliver the lecture in 2021 instead.
About the SIPRI Lecture
The SIPRI Lecture is an annual event focusing on major themes in peace and security. The event provides a platform for prominent global thought leaders sharing the values underpinning SIPRI, its research and other activities.
The inaugural SIPRI Lecture was held in May 2018 on the theme ‘Is the world on the road to peace or war?’ by HE Dr Hans Blix. The second edition of the SIPRI Lecture honoured HE Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile and currently United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and covered key challenges to human rights, the sources of those challenges, and the ways in which it is possible to address them.
Watch the livestreams of the first two editions of the lecture on SIPRI’s YouTube channel and on Facebook.
18 abril, 2020
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How to ensure human control over autonomous weapons (SIPRI)
SIPRI launches a new SIPRI Reflection Film that takes stock of the challenges posed by autonomy in weapons systems and explores how these challenges might be addressed by states. The film is released ahead of the Berlin Forum for Supporting the 2020 Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems that will take place on 1–2 April.
Watch the SIPRI Reflection film and Spotlight interviews on SIPRI’s YouTube channel and on Facebook.
16 abril, 2020
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Merkel’s plan for Germany (NYTimes)
April 15, 2020
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday set in motion a plan for Germany to begin lifting social and economic restrictions in place because of the coronavirus, even as she warned that the road ahead would look less like a return to normal than a way to live with a pandemic that has overturned ordinary life.
The chancellor, a physicist by training, was typically restrained and focused on the science as she announced the government’s cautious step-by-step plan, for which she had won the agreement of regional leaders in Germany’s diffuse federal system.
Shorn of any bravado, her announcement seemed again to make Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, a de facto leader on the Continent and something of an example for Western nations looking to navigate the tricky course of rebooting economic activity and fighting the virus.
Her approach stood in stark contrast to the fraught political divisions in the United States, where state authorities have often been at odds with President Trump, who has made forceful but erratic predictions about the virus.
16 abril, 2020
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COVID-19 is transforming International Relations (CFR)
The outbreak of COVID-19 is forcing intergovernmental meetings online. This transition will not be easy, but it could pave the way for greater participation and openness in international affairs.
April 13, 2020
Nick Ashton-Hart is the global private sector’s representative in Geneva dedicated to digital trade and economic policy and a long-time delegate to the International Telecommunications Union.
While it is largely invisible to the public, behind the scenes the biggest change to intergovernmental meetings in our lifetimes is taking place: they’re going online.
This may not sound earthshaking—but it is. Continue leyendo →
16 abril, 2020
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