The future of the United Nations system potential for the twenty-first century (United Nations University Press, 1998)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction - Chadwick F. Alger -- - Overcoming and preventing violence -- - Controlling weapons in the quest for peace: Non-offensive defence, arms control, disarmament, and conversion - Hans Gunter Brauch, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Bjorn Moller -- - Enforcement and humanitarian intervention: Two faces of collective action by the United Nations - Raimo Vayrynen -- - Enhancing United Nations peace-keeping - Robert C. Johansen -- - United Nations peace-keeping and NGO peace-building: Towards partnership - Elise Boulding, Jan Oberg -- - Coping with internal conflicts: Teaching the elephant to dance - Kumar Rupesinghe -- - Peace-building: Creating economic and social structures that sustain human fulfilment -- - Moving norms to political reality: Institutionalizing human rights standards through the UN system - Clair Apodaca, Michael Stohl, George Lopez -- - The struggle in the UN system for wider participation in forming global economic policies - Ho-Won Jeong -- - The UN system in the vanguard of advancement of women: Equality, development, and peace - Hilkka Pietila, Jeanne Vickers -- - Generating the political will for protecting the rights of refugees - Lucia Ann McSpadden, Anthony Ayok Chol -- - Sharing and protecting the commons -- - Ecological security and the United Nations system - Patricia M. Mische, Mauricio Andres Ribeiro -- - Communications in the future UN system - Tapio Varis -- - Developing the foundations: Peace education -- - The United Nations' role in peace education - Sanaa Osseiran, Betty Reardon
"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