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The future of the United Nations system : potential for the twenty-first century / edited by Chadwick F. Alger. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alger, Chadwick F., 1924- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations.
- International relations.
- Peace.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 450 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Twenty-two scholars from all continents contribute twelve chapters that encompass prevention of violence, creating economic and social structures that sustain human fulfilment, sharing and protecting the commons, and peace education. The search for future potential, based on experience in these twelve "laboratories," leads to sixty-six recommendations for new institutions and programmes on issues that include controlling weapons, humanitarian intervention, collaboration between UN peacekeepers and NGOs, human rights, economic policies, advancement of women, refugees, ecological security, communications, and peace education. These recommendations are brought together in a concluding chapter and summarized in an appendix."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Controlling weapons in the quest for peace : non-offensive defence, arms control, disarmament, and conversion / Hans Günter Brauch, Czeslaw Mesjasz, and Björn Möller
- Enforcement and humanitarian intervention : two faces of collective action by the United Nations / Raimo Väyrynen
- Enhancing United Nations peace-keeping / Robert C. Johansen
- United Nations peace-keeping and NGO peace-building : towards partnership / Elise Boulding and Jan Oberg
- Coping with internal conflicts : teaching the elephant to dance / Kumar Rupesinghe
- Moving norms to political reality : institutionalizing human rights standards through the UN system / Clair Apodaca, Michael Stohl, and George Lopez
- Struggle in the UN system for wider participation in forming global economic policies / Ho-Won Jeong
- UN system in the vanguard of advancement of women : equality, development, and peace / Hilkka Pietilä and Jeanne Vickers
- Generating the political will for protecting the rights of refugees / Lucia Ann McSpadden and Anthony Ayok Chol
- Ecological security and the United Nations system / Patricia M. Mische and Mauricio Andres Ribeiro
- Communications in the future UN system / Tapio Varis
- United Nations' role in peace education / Sanáa Osseiran and Betty Reardon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "A project of research commissions of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA)"--P. opposite t.p.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-21418-2
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