Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Previews U.N. High-Level Week for Just Security

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Regents Professor and Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy, and Society, analyzed the prospective developments as the United Nations General Assembly high-level week begins Sept. 22. Her comments appeared this week in Just Security. Prof. Ní Aoláin, former U.N. Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Countering Terrorism, said, “This is another year of low expectations and little hope we might exceed expectations. The singular global issue is peace, and its relentless absence. States, international institutions, and civil society alike are feeling chronic war fatigue, and a sense that conflict-ending sequences in obvious places like Ukraine, the Middle East, and Sudan as well as less prominent locales such as Syria, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Myanmar is simply beyond us.“