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Ramesh

Jaura

International
Reporting 50+ countries

UN & Global
Affairs Six decades

Global Awareness
& Cooperation Honour

Peace &
Disarmament
Lifelong Commitment

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Ramesh Jaura

Ramesh Jaura, who is affiliated with ACUNS, the Academic Council on the United Nations System, is a veteran journalist and observer of global affairs whose work has long explored the human dimensions of political and historical change. For nearly seven decades, he has written on international politics, development, and diplomacy, reporting from Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Latin America, and covering major United Nations conferences on nuclear disarmament, climate change, human rights, and sustainable development.

Awarded Germany’s Federal Cross of Merit in 1996, he has headed Inter Press Service and is the founder-editor of IDN-InDepthNews. Born in India and long based in Germany, he moves between Asian and European intellectual traditions.

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Nuclear Disarmament

Is There a Future for Peace and Disarmament?

As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of World War II, global tensions are escalating, including friction in the Baltic Sea, conflicts between Iran and Israel, unrest in Asia and Africa, and wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
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Global South

SCO Summit 2025: Eurasia’s Laboratory of Contradictions

For more than two decades, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) lingered in the margins of Western coverage—a Eurasian acronym that sounded bureaucratic, not dramatic. But in September 2025, as leaders gathered in Tianjin to mark the group's 25th anniversary
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United Nations

UN Peacekeeping in a Perilously Fragmented World

In an era characterized by volatile geopolitics, transnational threats, civil conflicts, and the deterioration of multilateral norms, the role of United Nations Peacekeeping has gained renewed significance and scrutiny. UN peacekeepers, commonly known as "Blue Helmets,"
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Nuclear Disarmament

Peace and Disarmament Education: A Strategy to Prevent Dystopia

Fancy people around the world singing John Lennon's "Imagine" — of a world where there is "nothing to kill or die for" and "all the people living in peace…sharing all the world…as one"!
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Global South

The BRICS: A Twilight Saga in Trade Wars

Some economists pass their careers in front of computer screens scrutinising spreadsheets, complaining about interest rates, and disappearing gracefully into the beige landscape of wonkish foreign policy.Peter Navarro, a professor emeritus of economics and public policy
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United Nations

At 80, the United Nations Faces a Moment of Reckoning — and Renewal

As the United Nations prepares to celebrate its 80th anniversary in 2025, the milestone presents an opportunity to reflect not only on past achievements but also on the future. It presents a pivotal opportunity to ask whether the UN, born from the ashes of World War II
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Skyward Haven – A Speculative Novel by Ramesh Jaura

Available worldwide through Amazon in paperback (ISBN 9798257923081) and hardcover (ISBN 9798195077464) editions, or read on Google Play.

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Ambi

Between Armageddon and Abolition

The Sustainable Development Goals

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