First Global Ministerial on Ending Violence Against Children
Colombia, Sweden and the United Nations are convening the First Global Ministerial on Ending Violence Against Children, according to a report from the Council on Foreign Relations.
The announcement was made during the final session of the Winter/Spring 2023 CFR Academic Webinar Series. Irina Faskianos, vice president of the National Program and Outreach at the Council on Foreign Relations, opened the session by welcoming attendees to the event.
"Thank you. Welcome to the final session of the Winter/Spring 2023 CFR Academic Webinar Series," Faskianos said. She noted that the discussion was on the record and that both video and transcript materials would be made available on the council’s website at CFR.org/Academic for sharing with colleagues or classmates.
Faskianos stated that the Council on Foreign Relations takes no institutional positions on matters of policy as it hosted the discussion.
Discussion on Geopolitics of Oil
The webinar featured a conversation led by Carolyn Kissane, who is identified as an academic director and clinical professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. The session focused on the geopolitics of oil.
Kissane holds multiple roles within New York University’s academic structure. She serves as the academic director of both the graduate program in global affairs and the graduate program in global security conflict and cybercrime at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs, where she is also a clinical professor.
Additionally, Kissane serves as director of the energy, climate justice, and sustainability lab in the School of Professional Studies at NYU. She was named in 2013 by Breaking E, according to the source text.
The discussion addressed the impact of Russia’s reinvasion of Ukraine on the geopolitics of oil. The report noted that Russia is one of the top three producers of oil in the world. The global market consumes over 100 million barrels of oil every day, a figure cited during the session.