To Save Us From Hell

“The United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell,” Dag Hammersjkold told us some 60 years ago. To Save Us From Hell is a podcast that discusses the players and debates raging at the UN to keep us from that fiery furnace. Each week, UN Dispatch editor-in-chief Mark Leon Goldberg and International Relations Scholar Anjali Dayal give critical analysis of the United Nations, as well as break down the latest news from Turtle Bay. From shenanigans at the Security Council to the UN’s life saving humanitarian work around the world, two veteran UN watchers dissect the key debates driving the agenda at the UN and uncover geopolitical intrigues along the way.To Save Us from Hell provides in-depth, accessible, and timely takes on the United Nations and its activities around the world. Whether you work for the UN, adjacent to the UN, or are simply curious about how the United Nations operates in this chaotic world our expert co-hosts will keep

To Save Us From Hell is a news podcast hosted by Global Dispatches, with 67 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  A Viral Shouting Match at the UN has Turned Into a Campaign to Oust a Senior UN Official

  Jul 6, 202623 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.globaldispatches.org<br/><br/><p>About ten days ago, a highly unusual scene unfolded at the United Nations: Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon and Vanessa Frazier, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, got into a public shouting match, with Danon telling Frazier, “You will be quiet now!”</p><p>What began as a tense exchange over a UN report has s…</p>

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  How the UN Views the Iran-U.S. Ceasefire

  Jun 18, 202620 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.globaldispatches.org<br/><br/><p>Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett could become the first United Nations Secretary-General of Indigenous descent. Guyana’s ambassador to the United Nations was nominated as a Secretary-General candidate this week, bringing the grand total of candidates to six as we enter the final stretch of the campaign before the first Security Council straw polls.</p><p>Anjali knows…</p>

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  Germany Gets Snubbed for the Security Council

  Jun 4, 202631 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.globaldispatches.org<br/><br/><p>There was a remarkable scene at the United Nations yesterday as the President of the General Assembly and former German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock read out the results of a hotly contested race for a Security Council seat.</p><p>For months, Portugal, Austria, and Germany had been duking it out behind the scenes at the General Assembly. These three EU a…</p>

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  Stopping Ebola Requires Multilateralism. America’s Retreat Is Making That Harder

  May 21, 202638 minS0

  <p>An Ebola outbreak is spiraling in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — and one of the clearest lessons from past outbreaks is that Ebola requires multilateralism: countries working together through existing institutions like the United Nations and the World Health Organization to contain the disease, support frontline health workers, share information, and prevent cross-border spread.</p><p>But the Trump administration’s retreat from the global health architecture built for precisely this kind of emergency has made that task harder. In this episode of To Save Us From Hell, Mark Leon Goldberg and Anjali Dayal discuss how American attacks on t...

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  Inside the Flawed Push at the Security Council to Reopen Hormuz

  May 6, 202618 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.globaldispatches.org<br/><br/><p>The Security Council is weighing yet another U.S.-backed resolution on the Strait of Hormuz that is probably doomed from the start. In this first segment, Anjali and Mark explain the flawed logic behind this latest effort to return the Strait to its status quo ante bellum. Then, Mark discusses what he learned covering the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treat…</p>

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