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If you are a member of XUNICEF, you can comment directly on a post. Or, send your comments to us at xunicef.news.views@gmail.com and we will publish them for you. World leaders departing the UN’s 80th General Assembly can be forgiven for wondering if they came for an anniversary or a reckoning. Wars are raging in Ukraine, Gaza, and Sudan. The Lancet tells us 14 million additional lives may be lost by 2030 due to international budget cuts – a third of them children under five. Analysts warn we are closer to great power conflict than at any point in decades.

The threat of nuclear crisis is back. All while we are poised to overshoot critical climate targets, inequalities and indebtedness are skyrocketing, and AI is set to transform our lives unpredictably absent guardrails, consent, or clear public purpose. Further erosion of the global trading order – the world’s most powerful engine of growth – will only amplify these dangers. The UN was created for moments like this – when a hyperconnected world urgently needs to find common ground in the face of existential risks. Instead, the institution feels steeped in crisis – funding cuts adding excruciating new pressure to an already overstretched system, major powers ignoring rules they once championed, a Security Council as ineffective as it is... Calls from leaders to defend the honor of multilateralism are rousing but alone will go nowhere without broad recommitment to the UN’s core purpose and a bracing reinvention of its core business, including through...

When U.S. President Donald Trump mused, “What is the UN’s purpose?” it was a fair question. Whether countries agree on the answer or not, it is exactly the debate we need to have. United Nations Foundation President and CEO Elizabeth Cousens joined Heinz College professor and former Ambassador Sarah Mendelson Wednesday, April 9 as a guest speaker for the fireside chat “Advancing Multilateralism in a Challenging Geopolitical... Cousens and Mendelson’s discussion is the third and latest entry in the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management’s speaker series “Challenges and Opportunities to Sustainable Development in the United States and Beyond.”

Cousens began by detailing the U.N. Foundation’s origins and its relationship to the U.N. “The U.N. Foundation was created in 1998 by media entrepreneur Ted Turner, the founder of CNN,” Cousens said. “[Turner] believed that international cooperation was indispensable in an interconnected world. And he believed that the United Nations in particular, was a singular essential institution to make all of that practical and real and to stand up for those values.”

When the United States failed to pay its dues to the U.N. — adding up to “about a billion dollars” in appears in 1998 — Turner had been angered as “he thought the U.N. deserved a little bit better than that, particularly from a country that had the most to do with creating it in the first place.” Consequently, “he surprised quite a few people by going to... Association of the United States and announcing that he was giving a billion privately, which was the same amount that the US was in debt.” However, Cousens explained that “it turned out that you couldn’t, as a private individual, do that in those days. And so they created the foundation, initially, as a channel for that gift.” Cousens emphasized the precedent that this set: “The Gates Foundation wasn’t created yet.

The Giving Pledge hadn’t started yet. So he was the kickoff to that new generation of philanthropy among high net worth individuals who really wanted to do purposeful things with their money.” Elizabeth is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Foundation, leading the Foundation’s next generation of work to support the United Nations. She is a diplomat and thought leader who has worked on the frontlines of peace processes, played an influential role in UN policy innovations from peacebuilding to the Sustainable Development Goals, and helped build... Before joining the Foundation, Elizabeth served for several years at the U.S. Mission to the UN in New York.

She was Principal Policy Advisor and Counselor to the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations and later served as the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Economic and Social Council and Alternate Representative to the UN General Assembly. In this conversation, Elizabeth and I discuss the short and long term goals of the UN Foundation. In addition, we explore how Elizabeth’s team raised $200 million in the face of COVID-19, how she works with impatient optimists, and the importance of leading with kindness. Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. Elizabeth Cousens grew up with an insatiable curiosity about world events.

This early interest has led to a remarkable career of service, including significant roles with the United Nations, both in the New York headquarters and areas of armed conflict like Bosnia and Haiti. At the United Nations Foundation, she oversees the organization that was formed thanks to Ted Turner’s $1 billion contribution and that today works alongside the United Nations “to collaborate for lasting change and innovate... UN FoundationLinked In Twitter Beat Malaria Twitter Facebook LinkedIn

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