On 17 June 2016, UNU Rector David M. Malone and UNU Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR) Director Sebastian von Einsiedel received the ‘2016 Book Award for Best New Book on the United Nations and UN System’ for their co-edited volume (with Bruno Stagno Ugarte) The UN Security Council in the 21st Century. The annual book award is presented by the Academic Council on the United Nations System — a global professional association of educational and research institutions, individual schol...
We live in an era of dramatic urban growth. Over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas and in the next 50 years this figure will increase to two thirds. Within the next 15 years, the majority of countries currently hosting peacekeeping missions will be largely urban....