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Corinne Graff on the U.N. General Assembly’s Theme of Resilience

Tuesday, September 21, 2021 / By: Corinne Graff, Ph.D.

Publication Type: Podcast

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As the 2021 U.N. General Assembly begins amid a host of global crises, USIP’s Corinne Graff says this year’s theme of resilience must “deal not just with the symptoms of these emergencies, but the root causes as well” and that effective governance is “key to building resilience against many of the global challenges we face today.”

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