Emma Bapt

Consider a Leading Role for the U.N. - 1 of 10 ideas for a path forward in Gaza. Check out this piece I wrote with @AdamDayGeneva for the @nytopinion 👇(and other excellent contributions!) nytimes.com/interactive/20…

🚨 Just launched: The 2025 Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) Thematic Review on Youth, Peace & Security (YPS)! It outlines best practices & lessons learned on youth engagement in peacebuilding. w/ @imanekarimou @Dabokunda @ericagaston @bhassanoxon @bjw_williams Dr. Willibald Zeck

Join here: genevapeaceweek.ch/en/programme/s…..

With sneak peeks from our upcoming project "From Signals to Action" on how the UN Human Rights system can deliver early warning and conflict prevention by @UNUCPR and @Geneva_Academy

Happening now at @GenevaPeaceWeek on "The Role of Special Procedures in Sustaining Peace and Preventing Conflict Through Human Rights" by @UNHumanRights and @QuakerUNOffice with @AdamDayGeneva and former SR and Working Group members 👇

On Sunday, 193 Member States agreed on a #PactForTheFuture including 56 "action points" on climate change, global governance, Security Council reform, development, human rights & more. Scanned our @UNUCPR library, & here's what I found to help unpack some of those commitments:

Join UNU-CPR for this #SummitOfTheFuture Action Days side-event to explore how the General Assembly can better fulfill its peace and security mandate. 🕊 🕛 10:00 - 11:30 am ET 🗓 21 September 2024 📍 New York & Online 🔗 Register: unu.edu/cpr/event/role…

Today, we proudly launch the Digital Handbook on the role of the #UNGA in matters of international peace and security. A concise, user-friendly resource cataloging decades of bold action by the General Assembly. As conflicts rise, the global community looks to the UN for leadership—and this Handbook is a step forward in that mission.

Today saw the launch of “Assembly for Peace: A Digital Handbook on the UN General Assembly's Past Practice on Peace and Security”, produced by UNU-CPR for the Office of the President of the General Assembly, United Nations [@UN_PGA].

Happening tomorrow! 👇

In times of global division, the #UNGA's role in peace & security is more crucial than ever. I’m proud to share a new Digital Handbook, produced by @UNUCPR as per the mandate to the President of the General Assembly, which reviews past practices to chart a course for the future. Explore it here: un.org/pga/78/publica…

When it comes to P&S, what has the UN General Assembly’s past 78 years looked like? When/how has it stepped in when the SC was unwilling or unable to?Reviewing the #UNGA record on #accountability made me pause on why I didn’t pick law back in the day👀Freshly published Handbook⬇️

How can the UN's Human Rights Due Diligence Policy (HRDDP) strengthen peacebuilding efforts? UNU-CPR Research Associate Emma Bapt shares insights from a new Policy Brief on HRDDP in programmes supported by the UN's #Peacebuilding Fund: unu.edu/cpr/brief/appl…

A new UNU-CPR Policy Brief draws from the 2024 Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) Thematic Review to evaluate the UN's Human Rights Due Diligence Policy (HRDDP) in PBF-supported programs and offers recommendations for enhancing its effectiveness. Find out more: unu.edu/cpr/brief/appl…

🇬🇲#TheGambia's Parliament upholds ban on FGM/C! A bill that seeks to repeal the 2015 ban on FGM/C in The Gambia has been rejected. If passed, this would have been the first time a ban on FGM/C has been reversed. 🔗girlsnotbrides.org/articles/uphol… #EndFGM

My book is finally out! cup.columbia.edu/book/illusions… Building from over a decade of research in #Afghanistan #Iraq and #Syria, as well as with DC policymakers, it delves into the security, human rights, and other democratic policy dilemmas that emerge when the US backs local forces.

Last week, UNU-CPR researchers Emma Bapt [@emma_bapt] and Luisa Kern [@Luisa__Kern] were in The Gambia to meet with stakeholders involved in 2 PBF-supported projects on #climatesecurity & #youth & #women decision making for our Thematic Review on Youth, Peace and Security (#YPS).

In Geneva for the week, discussing our 2024 PBF Thematic Review on synergies between #humanrights and #peacebuilding, including ways to bridge the Geneva-NY divide. Check it out here 👇 👇 unu.edu/cpr/report/202…. @UNUCPR @UNPeacebuilding

3 pieces of advice great mentors have taught me about being a young(ish) woman in this field: 1. Get yourself in the room. 2. Once there, shatter expectations. Every. Time. 3. Turn your critics into sources. 4. Dress like you might meet the president. Because you might.

Starting now: Talking Feminist Foreign Policy with @A__Hauschild, @moerserniklas, @cutesie_valerie 💬‼️ Join the discussion here: lu-se.zoom.us/j/61052397876

⏰ TODAY ⏰ The countdown is on for our first panel, Talking Feminist Foreign Policy. We'll see you at 13:30 (BST)/14:30(CET)!