Thong Nguyen is Data Lab Program Administrator at the International Peace Institute, having previously served IPI as editorial assistant. He is also non-resident fellow of the Future Worlds Project at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and author of Of All Possible Future Worlds: Global Trends, Values, and Ethics. Thong has worked as a consultant with the U.S. Department of State and served on the economics and science affairs desk at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva. He has been a program assistant at Columbia University, an English teacher in Japan, and a laboratory technician at Shell Westhollow Technology Center. Thong is the co-founder and co-programmer of bld3r.com, a 3D-printing community. Thong holds a master’s from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs as well as a bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and government from the University of Texas at Austin.
Selected Publications
The last decade has seen more UN peacekeepers than ever before coming from countries neighboring the host state. This report uses the IPI Peacekeeping Database to explore this increase in neighborhood contributions between 1990 and 2017. While less than 3 percent of all UN peacekeepers came from next-door neighbors in the early 1990s, this number […]
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IPI’s Data Lab aims to leverage data science into IPI’s areas of policy research. Using techniques like data mining, visualization, and machine learning, the Data Lab will help drive new insights on how the multilateral and local actors can approach complex crises and vulnerabilities related to lack of peace, security, stability, development, and health. While […]
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Member states agreed to an overall increase in the peacekeeping budget for the first time in…
Looking at green water, the rainwater available to plants, shows that freshwater’s ability to sustain a stable Earth system is even more threatened than…
The UN Security Council does not have the luxury of choosing between normative imperatives associated with preventing…
Despite the instability it faces, Guinea-Bissau—alongside countries like Madagascar, Chad, or the…
There are a number of reasons why it is difficult for…
Without a corresponding political process, UN protection activities are an ineffective bandaid in situations of…
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