The Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network published the SDG Index 2017 entitled: "Global Responsibilities: International Spillovers in Achieving the Goals". Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, UN Special Advisor and Director of the SDSN, is interviewed during the launch event in New York at the German Mission to the UN.

The United Nations is an embodiment of a continually evolving international order and UN peace operations are the physical manifestation of that order. Though there is no international consensus as to what peace and security mean, the prevailing understanding of these ideas is modeled by what peace operations do and how they do it. So what do current peace operations tell us about how the world understands peace and security? Has the recent global focus on terrorism changed what we think peace and security really means?