We are a global professional association of educational and research institutions, individual scholars, and practitioners active in the work and study of multilateral relations, global governance, and international cooperation.

Approximately half of our membership is based in North America, Europe and Central Asia; however our global membership comes from 54 countries, including Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Brunei, Chile, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Lebanon, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Republic of Korea, South Africa, Suriname, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay and Venezuela. Our 600 individual and institutional members include scholars, UN and other international organization practitioners, NGO/civil society representatives, government officials, and interested individuals. The monthly ACUNS E-Update is received by over 2,500 individuals around the world.

Through our core activities ACUNS stimulates, supports, and disseminates research and analysis on the United Nations, multilateralism, and international organization. ACUNS also promotes teaching on these topics, as well as dialogue and mutual understanding across and between the academic and practitioner communities. A special effort is made to ensure that advanced research conducted in universities finds its way into the programs of the UN system; ACUNS regularly partners with UN bodies in New York, Vienna, Geneva and elsewhere to support educational and other research initiatives, and current UN officials of all levels participate in many of our activities.

We always are searching for more and better ways to deliver programs and projects to our membership - with new thematic and professional development podcasts, video broadcasts of events, support to special research workshops and conferences, and dissemination of information about our members' own publications and programs.

We have Category 1 Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC); NGO Affiliate status with the UN Department of Public Information; and accreditation to UNESCO. This status gives our members the opportunity for access to UN system meetings and libraries.
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Board of Directors

We are governed by an international Board of Directors.

Liaison Offices

Our field offices in  Delhi, Geneva, New York, and Vienna, in addition to members located in over 50 countries, make us a global network

Host Organization

ACUNS moved to Wilfrid Laurier University in 2003, where it will reside through 2013.

Our History

ACUNS was founded at Dartmouth College in 1987. It was later hosted by Brown University and Yale University. In 2003, ACUNS moved to Wilfrid Laurier University, where it will reside through 2013.