Publications & Events

The Toda Peace Institute and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation published Reinventing Multilateralism: The United Nations, a collection of eight policy briefs on how the UN can recover its capacity to act when major powers block collective action. 

Jordan Ryan, a former UN Assistant Secretary-General, convened the research group and wrote the introduction. 

Peter Linnér of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and I wrote the brief
Financing Without Strings Attached: A Sequenced Pathway to Institutional Autonomy  

 Explore the full collection here. The other authors take up legitimacy and Security Council reform (Linda Darkwa (Dr.), restoring constraint on aggression (Mark Simonoff), collective security beyond the Council (Eugene Chen), the UN's convening authority (Georgios Kostakos), governing artificial intelligence (Renata Dwan), prevention as a system function (Sigrid Gruener and Henrik Hammargren), and the General Assembly, Secretary-General and international civil service as the UN's universal centre (Henrik Hammargren and Jemina Holmberg).

On Tuesday 13 October, Tomorrow Is Possible moderated a panel on policy coherence, titled 

Whose SDGs, whose Rules? at the Belgian SDG Forum. The panel organised by APNU,  Association pour les Nations Unies Belgique,  highlighted the integrated, indivisible and interlinked nature of the SDGs at global level through a series of case studies. The presentations can be found here. 

 In the afternoon for the VVN,  Vereniging voor de Verenigde Naties (Association for the United Nations Belgium Flanders), Tomorrow Is Possible was a panel member in an intergenerational debate: Does the UN offers youth a durable future? (Biedt de VN jongeren een duurzame toekomst?Intergenerationeel debat) together with Michiel Maertens, Director UN, Belgian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation and Carlien van Empel, Director ILO office for the EU and the Benelux countries.

Tomorrow Is Possible has been conducting a series of talks with a varied group of actors.

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) held its senior management retreat on 2 September 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. Tomorrow Is Possible delivered a key note. The slide deck is here, the key points here.

On 7 May, Tomorrow Is Possible spoke at the HDPI-forum (humanitarian development partnerships) - A global network of experienced persons championing efforts to meet today's humanitarian challenges. 

  On 15 May Tomorrow Is Possible spoke at the UNEP Senior Management meeting and elaborated more in details the impact on the environmental agenda. 

From 1 to 3 July, Tomorrow Is Possible spoke at 2 panels at the 39th Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Annual Meeting titled Multilateralism under Challenge and the Future of the Pact in Lisbon. Get in touch if you will be there as well... Read - and contribute to - my Substack for details on the topic I will be discussing there.  

 As discussions on the UN80 Initiative advance, attention is beginning to turn to the selection of the next United Nations Secretary-General. Much of the debate focuses on who the next Secretary-General should be. But far less attention is paid to a critical question: how the next Secretary-General uses their first 1,000 days in office. That may matter just as much as who they are. Building on the Cepei Think Tank and German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) report The Triple Disconnect: Power, Money, and Voice in the UNDS (https://lnkd.in/eQ_hiR5v), we looked  beyond reform slogans to a more fundamental issue: does the next Secretary-General fully understand where power actually sits in the UN system?

Read our piece on International Peace Institute (IPI) https://lnkd.in/eXykQkQA 

Together with the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Tomorrow Is Possible has written a discussion paper to advance a new vision for the United Nations' development function at a moment when the organisation is facing profound pressures and persistent scepticism about its relevance. Although a consensus exists that reform is overdue, past initiatives have been too incremental, focusing on coordination and efficiency without addressing deeper institutional and political pathologies.
Our vision marks a significant departure from the UN’s historical role as an aid channel predicated on the North-South divide. Instead, the UN’s future relevance lies in leveraging its universal legitimacy, normative authority and convening power. 

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) held its senior management retreat on 2 September 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden. Tomorrow Is Possible was invited to deliver a key note speech on the future of Development Cooperation. The presentation was an opportunity to present some new ideas and hard facts on the changing landscape. The full presentation can be found here. 

The main points I discussed can be found in my Substack here.