Thought leadership

A better world online and offline

Ambassador Ikuyo Sakai analyses the triumphs and perils of cyber security

Our Home and Native Land

Ambassador Alicia Raimundo shares a brief introduction to our 2016 Host Country, Canada.

World Leaders Adopt The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: What Next?

Disaster Risk Reduction expert and International Coordinator for Peace Boat: Robin Lewis discusses the role millennials must play in tackling climate change.

Implementing the Paris Agreement: the real challenge

Donald Bambara represented Burkina Faso at the Paris climate negotiations as a Special Envoy and UNFCCC Youth Constituent

How can we challenge the intolerance that drives conflict?

Learn how members of the One Young World community are tackling extremism and terrorism across the globe 

My Life in Syria

"Syrians are good people. My country is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. This country and its people deserve better."

The effects of climate change in Zimbabwe

Environmental activist Christopher Chakwana calls for action at COP21 - the Paris Climate Conference

Global public goods, post-scarcity and technology

"COP21 should be a platform for world leaders to not just focus on reducing emissions but to reflect on our global economy as a whole."  

United we stand, divided we fall

Joelle El Sawalhi on responses to recent tragedies

Unilever CEO Paul Polman calls on the private sector to secure binding COP21 agreement

"We need to see businesses doing more to tackle climate change in their own operations and encouraging world leaders to be bold."