The project is publicizing the main conclusions as widely as possible in order to stimulate
debate on the importance of the UN in the 21st century. The
60th anniversary of the UN in October 2005 provided the impetus
to accelerate dissemination efforts as well as to stimulate
additional exploration of the UN's record by academics and graduate
students, by journalists and policy analysts, in both developed
and especially developing countries.
PAST EVENTS: 2007
Paris, France, 25 October 2007
UNESCO General Conference, "Citizens and Global Governance:
United in Action"
Richard
Jolly presented "The UNIHP and the 3rd UN."
New York, New York, 20 September 2007
2007 Conference of the Human
Development and Capability Association (HDCA): "Ideas Changing
History"
Richard
Jolly gave the closing keynote on the theme of "The Power of
UN Ideas and the Challenges for the Human Development and Capability
Association."
Beijing, China, 18-21 September 2007
Special Conference of the International Association for Research
in Income and Wealth
Michael
Ward gave a presentation, "China's Growth and Global Inequality;
Puzzle or Paradox?" which drew attention to the way changes
in national definitions and classifications and the adoption of
UN international statistical standards influences the interpretation
of historical and comparative economic performance. It is to be
published in a special edition of
The Review of Income and Wealth.
New York, New York, 18 September 2007
2007 Conference of the Human
Development and Capability Association (HDCA): "Ideas Changing
History"
Thomas
G. Weiss presented “Oral Histories and Understanding Multilateralism:
The Experience of the United Nations Intellectual History Project.”
Lisbon, Portugal, 22-29 August 2007
Annual Conference of the International Statistical Institute
Michael
Ward presented the paper, "Indicators; Proxies for Policies?"
for the invited paper session, "Do Users Need Indicators or
Statistics?" The paper was published in the Conference Proceedings.
Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-11 July 2007
World Health Economics Conference
Michael
Ward presented the paper, "Towards an International System
of Health Accounts [SHA]."
The Hague, The Netherlands, 5-7 July 2007
The Society of International Development (SID) 50th Anniversary International Congress
Louis
Emmerij spoke about "Opportunities and Challenges facing
the Development Community," with particular reference to the
UN.
London, England, 5 July 2007
United Nations Association-UK
Thomas
G. Weiss and
Sam Daws
launched the
Oxford
Handbook on the United Nations. The event was opened with
introductory remarks by Sir Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of State,
Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Lord Hannay of Chiswick, Chair,
UNA-UK. Presentations were made by Adam Roberts, University of Oxford;
Ambassador Nick Thorne, UK Mission to the UN (Geneva) and Ngaire
Woods, University of Oxford. Please
click
here to see the event featured in the UNA-UK newletter,
New
World.
The Hague, The Netherlands, 5 July 2007
Society for International Development, 50th Anniversary Conference
Richard
Jolly gave a panel presentation on "The Rise and Fall of Multilateralism in the Management of International Affairs."
Geneva, Switzerland, 28 June 2007
The Geneva Diplomatic Book Circle (GDBC) Roundtable: "Ideas
Can Be Made: The UN Contribution to the Discourse on Development"
Thomas
G. Weiss participated in an interactive roundtable discussion
featuring the publications of the United Nations Intellectual History
Project. Other speakers included Mr. Yves Berthelot, Senior Research
Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center and Co-director of the UNIHP;
Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Director, Division on International Trade in Goods
and Services, UNCTAD; Mr. Heiner Flassbeck, Director, Division of
Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD; Mr. Khalil Hamdani,
Director, Division of Investment, Technology and Related Financial,
UNCTAD; Ms. Jo Butler, Chief Intergovernmental Affairs and Outreach
Service, UNCTAD. Moderators were Co-Founders of the GDBC Mr. Jovan
Kurbilija, and Mr. Amr Aljowaily, Permanent Mission of Egypt to
the UN in Geneva. Please
click here to download the summary of the discussion (pdf).
Glasgow, Scotland, 26 June 2007
Glasgow University, Conference on Heterodox Thinking
Richard
Jolly gave the opening keynote, "Policies and Institutions
for Growth and Development: Is there a Heterodox View?" for
the Glasgow University Conference on Heterodox Thinking.
New York, New York, 12 June 2007
United Nations Bookshop
Thomas
G. Weiss and
Sam Daws
gave presentations on the
Oxford
Handbook on the United Nations during its official release
at the UN Bookshop. They were joined by Kiyotaka Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General
for Communications and Public Information and Barbara Crossette,
Oxford Handbook author and UN Bureau Chief of
The New York Times
from 1994 to 2001. Please
click
here to see the flyer.
New York, New York, 8 June 2007
20th Anniversary Meeting of the Academic Council on the
United Nations
Richard
Jolly presented a paper on "The Third United Nations"—that
of nongovernmental organizations, academics, consultants, experts,
independent commissions, and other groups closely associated with
UN activities but not formally part of it.
New York, New York, 6 June 2007
20th Anniversary Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations
Thomas
G. Weiss and
Sam Daws
launched the
Oxford
Handbook on the United Nations. Please
click
here to see the event featured in the UNA-UK newletter,
New
World.
Warsaw, Poland, 31 May-4 June 2007
High-level regional meeting
Louis
Emmerij presented results to date of the UN Intellectual History
project.
Kazakhstan, 11 April 2007
UNICEF
Richard
Jolly presented an overview of the findings of the UNIHP at
the new UNICEF office in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. In addition
to the UNICEF staff attending, the presentation was videotaped,
to be made available for other UN staff in the main offices of Almaty.
Dr. Jolly also briefly discussed the project on the previous day,
during a keynote presentation to wind up a two day meeting on budgeting
for children, held in the Senate chamber of the Government of Kazakhstan,
with participants from the Kazakhstan Parliament and from a number
of other countries in transition.
Paris, France, 15 March 2007
L’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Thomas
G. Weiss made a presentation on
UN
Voices and Oral history research techniques.
Paris, France, 14 March 2007
Académie de Paris au Grand Amphithéâtre de la
Sorbonne
Thomas
G. Weiss presented the importance of UN history for teaching
of international relations at the first session of the European
Branch of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, of
which he is currently the chair of the Board of Directors.
Chicago, Illinois, 1 March 2007
Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA)
Thomas
G. Weiss discussed UNIHP findings for a plenary roundtable reflecting
ISA Chair Prof. Ann Tickner's theme of "Politics, Policy and
Responsible Scholarship."
Budapest, Hungary, 22-23 February 2007
Epoch forming changes in the World Economy in the last stage of
the 20th century and the main challenges of the new era
Louis
Emmerij spoke about
The Move toward a Multipolar World:
the Role of the UN at a conference on
Epoch forming changes
in the World Economy in the last stage of the 20th century and the
main challenges of the new era, organized by the Institute
for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the
faculty of World Economy of the Budapest Corvinus University.
New York, New York, 5 February 2007
Human Security: Stock-taking and Moving Ahead
This seminar, jointly organized by the Permanent
Mission of Canada to the United Nations and the UN Intellectual
History Project, will explore the value-added of the concept of
human security and its particular relevance for the United Nations.
While the term is often associated with abstract definitional debates,
we propose to focus on the international impact that adopting a
people-centered approach to security policy has already had as well
as practical next steps that could taken to further advance this
agenda.
Presentations were made by
S.
Neil MacFarlane (University of Oxford and co-author with
Yuen
Foong-Khong of
Human
Security and the UN: A Critical History);
Andrew
Mack (Director of the Human Security Centre of the University
of British Columbia and principal author of The Human Security Report
2005);
Richard Jolly (Honorary
Professor University of Sussex and co-director of the UNIHP, who
participated in a 2006 UNDP analysis of fourteen country programs
that examined the importance of human security and human development);
and
Don Hubert (Director of the Human Security
Policy Division at the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade).
Thomas
G. Weiss moderated the discussion.
Casablanca, Morocco, 12-15 January 2007
Women Weave Peace into Globalisation
A
unity of purpose as well as a call for a fundamental reconceptualisation
of society has emerged from varied voices. The objective is not
merely to tote up a balance sheet of assets and liabilities; of
achievements and failures – but rather to move beyond the existing
framework itself.
Taking cognizance of these
wide spread concerns, a meeting was organized of about 15 experienced
women activist intellectuals in Casablanca. The intention was to
reflect on the past efforts, to critically evaluate the present
and to attempt to construct a framework which would be more in tune
with the ground level realities that women, especially less advantaged
women are currently facing, as well as aware of the macro situation
and impulses and crisis. The goal was to create a knowledge derived
document -- a memorandum, an advocacy tool, later perhaps a book,
which attempts to build a revised analytical framework for looking
at development experience with special reference to women in poverty
and their quest for equality and justice.
Devaki
Jain made a presentation about
Women,
Development and the UN. Please
click
here to download her paper.
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