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Since 2022, the Stimson Center has been working on a projectthat brings together researchers, disaster-management authorities, and partners in Nepal to develop new approaches for monitoring fast-changing hazards and improving preparedness as climate change reshapes the Himalayan risk landscape.Learn more about the Early Warning Systems for Cascading Disasters in Nepal project.

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In August 2025, the UN Security Council mandated that the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) commence drawdown on December 31, 2026. UNIFIL is one of the longest running UN peacekeeping missions, established in 1978 by UN Security Council resolutions 425 and 426.

Editor’s Note: Stimson’s Myanmar Project seeks a variety of analytical perspectives on issues relating to Myanmar’s civil war, domestic politics, foreign relations, and other topics. Thitinan Pongsudhirak is professor at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science and a senior fellow at its Institute of Security and International Studies in Bangkok. He is an expert on ASEAN and international relations across Southeast Asia.

Editor’s Note: Rovshan Mammadli is a Baku-based policy analyst and journalist specializing in South Caucasus affairs and the region’s relations with the Middle East. His work has appeared in outlets including Amwaj.media, New Arab, Euractiv, Eurasianet, Caucasus Edition, and IPS-Journal. He has also published peer-reviewed research on regional security and geopolitics, most notably the article “Iran and the Second Karabakh War” by Wiley Online Library.

The Initiative for Knowledge in the Americas (INKA) is a transformative regional effort to build up Latin America’s capacity in science, technology, and innovation (STI) By Juan Carlos Navarro and Francisco Sagasti Latin America has chronically underinvested in STI: R&D spending as a share of GDP remains far below that of more developed regions. Closing that gap will take mobilizing international cooperation actors within the region and with strategic partners.

The Initiative for Knowledge in the Americas (INKA) is a transformative regional effort to build up Latin America’s capacity in science, technology, and innovation (STI) By Juan Carlos Navarro and Francisco Sagasti Latin America has chronically underinvested in STI: R&D spending as a share of GDP remains far below that of more developed regions. Closing that gap will take mobilizing international cooperation actors within the region and with strategic partners.

In his new memoir, “Witness to North Korea,” Jerome Sauvage provides a first-hand account of what it is like to live in North Korea based on his time as a UN Special Resident coordinator in Pyongyang from 2009-2013. Reflecting on his time in the humanitarian aid space, Sauvage recounts his experience working with North Korean citizens and the role’s associated successes and setbacks.

A regional platform for collaborative research, talent mobility, shared infrastructure, and responsible innovation By Juan Carlos Navarro and Francisco Sagasti Latin America and the Caribbean’s scientific output has expanded rapidly, yet research systems remain fragmented and intra-regional collaboration is limited.

A regional blueprint to pool compute, talent, and funding so Latin America builds AI capability, not dependency By Juan Carlos Navarro and Francisco Sagasti A handful of global tech companies now control the compute, models, and platforms that AI runs on — and Latin America has little shared access to any of it.