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Johanna Mendelson Forman

Johanna Mendelson Forman is senior program officer for peace, security and human rights at the United Nations Foundation.

Recent articles


President Bush discovers the world is flat

The United Nations world summit suggests that the Bush administration is starting to understand its need for allies, says Johanna Mendelson Forman of the UN Foundation.

In Larger Freedom: Kofi Annan's challenge

Can the United Nations be reformed to make it a guarantor of human security and development in the 21st century? Johanna Mendelson Forman on the ideas and politics of a historic report.

A 21st century mission? The UN high-level panel report

How to ensure human security in an age of terrorism and pre-emptive war? As a United Nations think-tank publishes its proposals, two specialists map the international diplomatic minefield on which the UN, its friends and its enemies chart their course.

The nation-building trap: Haiti after Aristide

Haiti's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was restored to power by international help in 1994. A decade on, this "success" appears tainted by his second overthrow. What went wrong, and can the international community get it right next time? 

The UN in 2003: a year of living dangerously

The crisis over Iraq has brought the United Nations to a crossroads. At the end of a year when diplomacy was felled by force, the institution can regain its influence only by rethinking its core security mandate.