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ACUNS Annual Meeting 2026 on “Multilateralism under Challenge and the Future of the Pact”

The 2026 ACUNS Annual Meeting will examine how multilateral governance can be maintained despite challenges from major and emerging powers, continuing armed conflicts, humanitarian emergencies, an overheated planet, and other crises. In September 2024, the Summit of the Future galvanized attention worldwide on rebuilding trust and gaps in global governance;…

1 July 2026@ 9:00 AM

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The 2026 ACUNS Annual Meeting will examine how multilateral governance can be maintained despite challenges from major and emerging powers, continuing armed conflicts, humanitarian emergencies, an overheated planet, and other crises. In September 2024, the Summit of the Future galvanized attention worldwide on rebuilding trust and gaps in global governance; reaffirming the UN Charter, 2030 Agenda, and other existing commitments; and renewing the multilateral system to prepare for over-the-horizon challenges and opportunities. Responding to unilateral funding cuts by the world body’s largest donor, the Secretary-General’s UN80 Initiative, in 2025, is intended to streamline and consolidate the UN system, while building momentum for delivery of the Pact for the Future – the 2024 Summit’s chief outcome – in the run-up to its 2028 high-level review. Together, the Pact and UN80 aspire to re-commit Member States  to multilateral cooperation and international law and to reform global institutions toward resilience, equity, innovation, and intergenerational justice. The current international climate calls into question some aspects of these hopeful scenarios.

Global Policy Dialogue: In Defense of Multilateralism through the Pact

Building on the Global Governance Innovation Network’s annual series, this year’s Global Policy Dialogue at the ACUNS Annual Meeting ’26 will focus specifically on themes of innovation — across international institutions, laws, policies, operational tools, and norms — in the spheres of global peace and security, global economic and social governance, and justice reform, with particular attention to delivering on related Pact for the Future Actions and/or the three defined work streams of the Secretary-General’s UN80 Initiative.

Roundtable 3: Justice, the Rule of Law, the Role of International Courts, and Pact Follow-through

Roundtable 1: Global Peace and Security and Pact Follow-through

Roundtable 2: Global Economic and Social Governance and Pact Follow-through

Please refer to this page for more information: https://ggin.stimson.org/acuns-annual-meeting-2026/

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