The Year That Was
The year 2025 will likely be remembered not as a year of sudden rupture but as a year when the world finally accepted that instability was no longer temporary. What had once been described...
The year 2025 will likely be remembered not as a year of sudden rupture but as a year when the world finally accepted that instability was no longer temporary. What had once been described...
The book 75 Years of India’s Contribution to UN Peacekeeping, chronicles India’s seven-and-a-half-decade journey in blue helmets. Written by by Maj Gen P.K. Goswami, VSM (Retd) of the United Service Institution (USI), the book...
USI ANNUAL UN FORUM 23-24 October 2025 (In collaboration with ICRC and CUNPK) New Delhi – October 18, 2025 – The Centre for UN Studies, United Service Institution of India (USI), will host its...
There was a night in New Delhi back in 1971 when the city seemed cloaked not only in the monsoon mist but in the heavy weight of history itself. India was at a crossroads,...
“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind.”—Anna Julia Cooper From Lahore’s barren bus stops to the Nairobi...
New Delhi, 29 May 2025 — On the occasion of the International Day of United Nations (UN) Peacekeepers, the United Service Institution of India (USI) hosted a high-level symposium commemorating India’s 75-year journey in...
The book discussion and release of The Unforgettable Saga of Sierra Leone by Lt Gen VK Jetley (Retd) was an event marked by insightful reflections, strategic discussions, and an appreciation of one of the...
The United Services Institution of India (USI) hosted its Annual UN Forum on 27-28 November 2024, focusing on the “Changing Character of Conflicts, Challenges to Peace Operations and International Humanitarian Law.” Opening Session Maj...
“It was a bloodbath”, remarked a senior commentator visibly upset as he recalled the horror of 5th November, the fabled election night in America. Kamala Harris, the current Vice president of the United States...
September 15th is globally celebrated as the International Day of Democracy and 2024 would be remembered as the year of celebrating the cherished idea of self-rule which in the words of Albert Moravia boasts of...