Having trouble viewing this email? Click here UN in Focus Newsbrief N0. 5/2011 November 2011 Quick Links FES NY Events FES NY Publications More About Us Dear colleagues and friends, Before we close our office for Thanksgiving, I am delighted to report about our most recent activities of this fall, which turned out to be a very busy period. On November 10, together with our partner Club de Madrid, we hosted a High-Level Dialogue that called for global leadership for sustainable development in the run-up to the Rio+20 Summit in 2012. Throughout the same week, FES New York hosted its sixth annual Fall Academy for young policy analysts who came to New York to get an inside-view of the United Nations. In October, we convened an international conference on the peaceful future of South Sudan with high-level participants from the two Sudanese states as well as the region. This conference also led to our most recent publication,"Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread: Challenges for South Sudan and the International Community" whose author addresses key questions for the international support of the UN's youngest member state. As usual, I hope this Newsbrief will make for informative reading and I look forward to receiving your feedback. With best wishes from New York, Dr. Werner Puschra Director Friedrich Ebert Stiftung- New York Office