Ralph Bunche Institute

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The Ralph Bunche Institute offers a wealth of research and public programming on international affairs, human rights, and conflict resolution.

Category: UN-UAP Working Group

Jacques Vallée: UAP and the United Nations, a Global Call Ignored?

UN-UAP Working Group

The podcast Reveliously Curious reveals how in 1978, Grenada’s Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy brought UFOs to the floor of the United Nations—backed by researchers

Messages to extraterrestrial civilizations

UAP Studies / UN-UAP Working Group

Messages to extraterrestrial civilizations : note / by the UN Secretariat Contains text of the message from the Secretary-General, Kurt Waldheim, included in records carried

United Nations Proposal to Appoint Expert Group to Study Nature and Origin of UFO’s

UAP Studies / UN-UAP Working Group

Source: United Nations Grenada proposed that the Secretary-General appoint a group of experts, under the aegis of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer

Eli Karetny

PhD in Political Science (CUNY Graduate Center)

Interim Director, Ralph Bunche Institute
Lecturer, Baruch College-CUNY
ekaretny@gc.cuny.edu
@ekaretny

Eli Karetny, JD, PhD, is the RBI’s interim director. Prior to taking on this role, he served as deputy director and head of programs and operations. Eli is the Principal Investigator on the Institute’s core research projects, he oversees relations with sponsors, liaises with university administration, and serves as the Institute’s grants director and financial officer. Eli also serves as the legal and financial advisor to the RBI’s Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P) and the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (CSHGCAH), and is a member of the boards of both organizations.

After serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, Eli completed his PhD in International Relations at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation explored monarchic themes in the work of Leo Strauss, focusing especially on Nietzsche’s influence on Strauss’s view of the role of teachers and advisors as regime-changers. Eli teaches political theory and international relations at Baruch College-CUNY.

Eli is also researcher at the Hotam School of Anthroposophy and Kabbalah, which informs his interest in how esoteric wisdom influences human affairs. He is also an advisory board member of the Society for UAP Studies