Events
The Center on International Cooperation hosts numerous events such as high-level meetings, forums, roundtable discussions, webinars, dialogues, and more.
Lumumba at 100 Conference
Lumumba at 100 is a graduate student-led initiative commemorating the 100th anniversary of Patrice Lumumba’s, honoring his life and legacy. The conference will focus on Congo's colonial history, Lumumba’s leadership, and the region's ongoing struggles, with a particular emphasis on how these issues connect to contemporary global challenges such as resource extraction and political instability.
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April 18, 2025Programs:
We Need to Talk About Housing: A Discussion on What’s Working and What’s Not in the Face of Extreme Housing Inequalities
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February 12, 2025Programs:
Bringing the Fight Against Inequality to FfD4 Discussions
Organized by Oxfam International, Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT), Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR), NYU Center on International Cooperation, and the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), this side event will emphasize the big opportunity that the international community has during FfD4 to reduce domestic and global inequality in 2025 in parallel to closing the financing for sustainable development gap.
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February 11, 2025State Capture and Human Rights: Strengthening Diplomacy for Prevention
State capture is rarely at the forefront of discussions on preventing violent conflict, yet these dynamics profoundly undermine human rights by distorting the very institutions designed to protect us. This distortion enables widespread violations in areas such as political participation, due process, access to information, and economic rights. The event will highlight insights from the Prevention Project and its latest report, State Capture as an Enabling Condition for Human Rights Violations, bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives from policymakers, practitioners, and advocates worldwide—underscoring the urgent need for diplomatic action.
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December 10, 2024The U.S. Elections on a Global Stage
Please join the Reiss Center on Law and Security for a virtual discussion moderated by Reiss Center Non-Resident Senior Fellow Michael Wahid Hanna. An expert panel will discuss what the upcoming elections mean for the international community and global institutions, consider how global issues may inform the elections, and examine potential shifts in future U.S. foreign policy depending on the outcome of the electoral contest.
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October 30, 2024NYU Event: Beyond the Battlefields
Join NYU Wagner’s Professor John Gershman and Center on International Cooperation’s Daniel Friedman and Luisa Portugal on a conversation about their recently released report “Beyond the Battlefields: Practical Strategies to Halving Global Violence in Our Homes, Streets, and Communities.”
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October 16, 2024Programs:
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Halving Global Violence
- Pathfinders
Supporting Afghan Women's Struggle for their Human Rights
Shortly after UNGA High-Level Week, the U.S. Department of State, the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, and the Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security, will convene a roundtable to discuss the work of UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennett, focusing on the Taliban’s discriminatory edicts against women and girls. The event will spotlight the dire situation the Taliban have created for Afghan women and girls and look to mobilize international support for Afghan women’s rights. It will also serve to reiterate our global commitment to human rights and press for accountability while encouraging other countries to do the same. The audience will include UN Permanent Representatives from Security Council Members and Muslim-majority countries, and Afghan women leaders, emphasizing the need for coordinated international efforts to address these abuses and support Afghan women.
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September 30, 2024
Pact for the Future and Beyond: Towards the 4th International Conference of Financing for Development
This session aims to identify opportunities leading up to the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development and the World Social Summit in 2025.
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September 21, 2024
From Words to Action: A Networked Approach to Upholding Commitments from the Summit of the Future
Taking place at the 2024 UN Summit of the Future, this hybrid event will explore how Action 59 of the draft Pact of the Future (“strengthen our partnerships to deliver on existing commitments and to address new and emerging challenges”) can be made real. We expect that this Summit will take us several steps forward to renewing global governance. However, as with international agreements before it, maximizing the impact of outcomes will require an intentional, networked, and sustained effort from member states and civil society in its wake.
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September 21, 2024
Towards 2030 and beyond: Accelerating the SDGs through access to evidence on what works
This side event looks at the role of science and digital technologies in helping decision-makers accelerate progress towards the SDGs. It aligns strongly with the Pact for the Future, emphasizing the importance of the science-policy interface and the use of science in solving complex global challenges. Speakers include CIC’s Executive Director, Ambassador Martin Kimani, governmental and civil society representation in addition to inter-generational dialogue with youth leaders.
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September 21, 2024Resolution on Financing for Peacebuilding: Two Years On, From Theory to Practice
The purpose of this event is to portray the journey since the adoption of the Resolution (A/RES/76/305) which has spurred the development of concrete initiatives and partnerships that exemplify the principles it enshrines. For instance, the Investing for Peace (I4P) initiative and its Specialized Investment Vehicle (SPV) for Peace, proposed by a coalition led by Germany's Federal Foreign Office and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), embodies the spirit of the resolution. This initiative aims to finance peace-positive business models that not only benefit conflict-affected populations but also address the root causes of conflict and instability. By integrating peace-enhancing mechanisms into investments, the SPV lowers risks for investors while strengthening community resilience.
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September 20, 2024
UN General Assembly 2024
The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will take place from July 8, 2024 to July 17, 2024. The theme will be "Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient, and innovative solutions.”
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September 10, 2024Programs:
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Halving Global Violence
- Inequality and Exclusion
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Justice
- Pathfinders
- Prevention-Peacebuilding-Protracted Crises
- Promoting and Defending Multilateralism
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