The Center for 21st Century Global Governance is changing its name to the Center for Sustainable Development and International Peace. The new name better reflects the mandate of the young research, education and policy center. Please view our updated mission statement for more information about our work. We are working on updating our website soon.

Programs

As a research, education, and policy center to advance understanding of the complex linkages between sustainable development and international peace and security into the 21st Century, the Center will focus on:

  • Sustainable Development the Environment.   This concentration focuses on a basic of critical environmental issues: 1) energy scarcity and the effects of great-power rivalry in this area on oil-exporting states such as Sudan, Nigeria, Iran, and Iraq; 2) water scarcity and quality, which together with the related competition for land is a pressing global concern; and 3) global health issues, and in particular the relationship between health and other global governance concerns such as migration or the conflict dimension of the problem of AIDS orphans. 
  • International Peace and Security.  This research concentration will explore the underlying causes of threats to international peace and security that lie in state weaknesses and social stress, dynamics of state weakness (such as mobilization, crises, and pathways of state failure), and evaluate international efforts to build more effective, democratic states in the wake of civil wars.  Within this concentration, the Center offers a specialization in the prevention, management, and settlement of civil wars and current efforts to improve international peacebuilding operations at the United Nations.
  • Democracy and Governance Assessment.  Increasingly, donor agencies, the international financial institutions, and international organizations have adopted comprehensive assessment approaches to democratic governance.  The Center concentration on democracy will also include a core focus on governance and human rights with a view toward enhancing models and methods of assessment as well as conducting assessment projects through sponsored research.