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Contributors | Roger Nokes

Roger Nokes is the former membership coordinator for UNA-USA. His previous experience includes writing for The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The International Chamber of Commerce and The Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies. Nokes has a bachelor of arts in history and political science from Kean University and a master of diplomacy and international relations from Seton Hall University.

South Sudan Faces First Major Test of Unity Since Independence

By Roger Nokes | Jan 27, 2012

Over the past few weeks, South Sudan has faced the biggest test yet since it declared independence from the north last summer. Just months after this oil-rich, ethnically diverse nation celebrated its secession from an often-oppressive Khartoum government, large-scale violence has broken out between rival ethnic groups.

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Libya and the Future of the Responsibility to Protect

By Roger Nokes | Dec 08, 2011

When UN historians look back at 2011, they may well remember it as the year of R2P—diplomatic parlance for the “Responsibility to Protect.” All states, the decade-old doctrine argues, are obligated to protect their citizens. Should they fail—whether out of inability or by design—the international community must step in.

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Sudan: The Limits of Intervention

By Roger Nokes | Nov 16, 2011

On November 10, the Sudanese military bombed a refugee camp in the newly-separated state of Southern Sudan. Just four months after the two countries split, the strikes-which hit the Yida refugee camp that houses some 20,000 people-were the most visible signs yet of the rising tension between Khartoum and the nascent government in Juba.

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Financial Tools for People With No Access to Banks

By Roger Nokes | Nov 30, 2010

In rural areas of the developing world, it can often be difficult to find a bank, making it almost impossible for individuals and families to take advantage of financial services like savings accounts, wire transfers, microcredit loans and insurance. Without these services, people cannot, for example, accumulate interest on their earnings or send remittances to their families elsewhere.

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In Pursuing US Congress, Ban Practices His Predecessors’ Moves

By Roger Nokes | Nov 18, 2009

Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who has been described as “low-key” and “modest,” in the media and elsewhere, has revealed another side to his personality in his strenuous lobbying efforts to forge a climate change treaty in Copenhagen next month.

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Optimism and Anxiety Abound at UN Climate Summit

By Roger Nokes | Sep 23, 2009

President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations climate summit yesterday in New York, citing the seriousness and urgency of global warming and saying that if the tide was not turned against preventing more environmental damage that a tremendous burden would be left for future generations. Yet it was a tide, he added, that “we can reverse.”

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