NATO and the UN: What Role Makes Sense for the U.S. Today?

## NATO and the UN: What Role Makes Sense for the U.S. Today?

For much of the past 75 + years, the United States has participated in international alliances and organizations like NATO and the United Nations, joining with other countries to address global security, shared challenges, and cooperation. These organizations touch many parts of the world — and indirectly affect life here at home.
At this meeting, we’ll talk about how people experience and understand the U.S. role in these global partnerships — not just in theory, but in everyday life, in community, and in what we notice around us.

We’ll explore questions such as:

• When you first heard about NATO or the United Nations, what image or idea did you form about them? Has that image changed over time?
• Have any international events — from peacekeeping missions to news stories about conflict — shifted how you feel connected to the wider world?
• Can you describe a time when something happening abroad made you reflect on your own community or sense of safety?
• Have you or someone you know been personally affected — even indirectly — by global issues like conflict, migration, security cooperation, or global rules?
• How do your experiences shape what you feel the U.S. should bring to cooperative efforts with other countries?

This isn’t about persuading or defending a position. It’s about listening to one another’s experiences of a world that is interconnected, and what we’ve noticed about America’s place in it.
Please do your best to arrive at the beginning of the meeting – once we are in breakout rooms and the conversations have started, the meeting doors close to new arrivals. The breakout rooms open (and the doors close) approximately 15 minutes after the hour.
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