Chatham House podcast specials
Oct 12, 2026 · 14 min · 8 segments
Chatham House analysts Laurel Rapp and Dr Christopher Sabatini returned from New York saying they saw signs of optimism and the renewal of 'shoe-leather diplomacy' behind the scenes at the United…
Laurel RappGuestChristopher SabatiniGuest
Stephen FarrellHost
It was part of the annual U.N. meetings, the start of the General Assembly high-level week, leaders from all over the world coming together to sit on that U.N. stage, give their remarks, and then tens of thousands of people join from companies, from nonprofits, from civil society, from think tanks to be involved in the conversation on what are the biggest pressing issues we are all looking at today, trying to solve together, and then what are some ways we might get there to do that.
Yeah, it's a bit like, you know, sort of Glastonbury Festival for policy nerds.
But you have, you know, delegations from all the foreign ministries there.
So just opposite the United Nations building in New York, there is one of my favorite public monuments in the States.
It's a verse from the Old Testament book of Isaiah, and it is, they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
It was part of the annual U.N. meetings, the start of the General Assembly high-level week, leaders from all over the world coming together to sit on that U.N. stage, give their remarks, and then tens of thousands of people join from companies, from nonprofits, from civil society, from think tanks to be involved in the conversation on what are the biggest pressing issues we are all looking at today, trying to solve together, and then what are some ways we might get there to do that.
Yeah, it's a bit like, you know, sort of Glastonbury Festival for policy nerds.
But you have, you know, delegations from all the foreign ministries there.
So just opposite the United Nations building in New York, there is one of my favorite public monuments in the States.
It's a verse from the Old Testament book of Isaiah, and it is, they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
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