It’s time for the United Nations to play a bigger role in disarmament, according to UN chief António Guterres, calling for concrete, practical actions to promote peaceful conflict resolution. Among those actions is to maximize the benefits of “frontier technology”. Daniel Johnson discusses the various ways that the UN is looking to incorporate such technology in its disarmament agenda.

After speaking to students at an event for The Holocaust and the UN Outreach Programme, celebrated Belgian-born Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka sat down with Cristina Silveiro for our Lid Is On podcast to talk about the “overwhelming” and profound journey he began when he put pen to paper on a graphic novel examining the impact of his own father’s trauma surviving the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

Music credit: Sad Moments, by Ketsa

Digital cash vouchers powered by the revolutionary technology behind the Bitcoin cryptocurrency are helping the UN ensure that food aid is getting to where it’s needed most.

How does a child end up working for a terrorist organization that’s responsible for killing his own father?

That’s one of the questions addressed by a new report from the UN University (UNU) that’s drawn on two years of fieldwork.