The United Nations Studies Program Working Group (UNSPWG) is a student-led organization, working under the guidance and umbrella of the United Nations Studies Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). 

The UNSPWG aims to connect students and the SIPA community to issues related to the United Nations (UN) agenda by building a better understanding of the process and projects of the organization, emphasizing international security, human rights, humanitarian affairs, development, environmental change and other relevant areas of the work handled by the UN System.

 

“To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.”

(Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat, seventh United Nations
Secretary-General, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize).