Multistakeholder and Global Governance
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- Transnational Institute workshop on multistakeholder governance and social movements, Amsterdam, late February to early March, 2019
Intro Slides- Agenda
- Final Report
- Readers Guide’ to the Global Redesign Initiative for the University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Democratic Global Civil Governance Report of the 1995 Benchmark Survey of NGOs, commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Author of Friends of the Earth article COVAX: A global multistakeholder group that poses political and health risks to developing countries and multilateralism
- Also posted in Spanish
- Consultant on the opinion piece We Passed an American Rescue Plan. Next Up: The Global Rescue Plan, by John Feffer
- Guest on the podcast miniseries The Davos Diaries, hosted by Tanvi Kanchan
- "Rethinking MSIs: Where Is the Debate About Democracy and Multi-stakeholder Governance?", August 2020 blog post with the MSI and the Harvard Law School
- Open Letter on #45 at the UN, August 2020 published in The African Mirror (Jo’burg) and Katoilos.world (Brussels)
- "The UN System and the World Post Covid-19", May 2020 Action Plan co-author for FOGGS
- "The United Nations and The Covid-19 Global Emergency", April 2020 discussion paper co-author for FOGGS
- "Strengthening the UN system: The case for a Committee of the Heads of Governing Bodies", December 2019 article for FOGGS (Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability)
- "They Call it Multistakeholderism. Where does that leave the UN?", September 2019 Article for PassBlue
- Understanding Multistakeholderism
- Youtube video posted by capacity4dev, February 1 2019
- "Multistakeholderism: a new way for corporations and their new partners to try to govern the world", July 2018 Guest Article in Civicus
- "A Four Powered World Demands a Four Chamber Governance System", September 2018 Submission to the Global Challenge Foundation
- "Procedure and Format: Options for an UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights", April 2018 Briefing for the Global Policy Forum
- "When elephants fight, the grassroots get hurt", March 2017 Article for Open Democracy
- "Multi-stakeholder Governance: A Corporate Push For a New Form of Global Governance", Chapter 5 of TNI's 2016 State of Power Report
- "Economic-social-environmental-gender governance", July 2016 Article for Open Democracy
- "Re-visioning global governance: constraining the power of MNCs", April 2016 Article for Open Democracy
- "Multi-stakeholder governance: a corporate push for a new global governance", January 2016 Article for Open Democracy
- "Creating Standards for Multi-Stakeholder Governance", July 2015 Article for Carnegie Council
- Invited to speak about COVAX as part of the Asia Europe People's Forum plenary session "The Covid-19 Pandemic & the Broken Economic System". The event was live-steamed on May 20th, 2021.
- Invited by Strike-WEF, a Swiss civil society organization, to participate in a series of public events January 18-21 alongside their planned three day hike into Davos to challenge the participants in the World Economic Forum on climate justice.
- Read about the event and Harris Gleckman's contribution in Rolling Stone
- "The Essential World Organisation: Reinvigorating the UN at 75" September 3-4, 2019 workshop in Duisburg-Essen, Germany
"Goodbye to Elitism : Anchoring global governance in societies" September 25-26, 2018 workshop in Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- "Multistakeholder Governance and Multilateralism", 2018 UMass Boston Guest Lecture
- "Designing the MSI of the Future: A Research Workshop on Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives" April 3-4, 2017 at Occidental College, Los Angelas, California.
- Panelist for "Interactions between MSIs and other forms of global governance".
- Agenda
- "Equity and Accountability in Institutions of Global Governance", April 2015 UMass Boston Guest Lecture
- Advisor to the Chilean chair of negotiations on General Assembly resolutions on Global Governance, 2012, 2013
- Advisor to the Guyana chair of negotiations on the General Assembly resolution on the reorganization of ECOSOC, 2013
- Advisor to the Guyana chair of negotiations on the General Assembly resolution establishing the High Level Political Forum, 2013
- Advisor to the Assistant Director, DESA-ECOSOC Division on multi-stakeholder engagement at the United Nations
- Report
- "Confronting the Crisis of Global Governance", Consultant of Report by the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, Washington D.C, June 2015