Trustee for the human community: Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the decolonization of Africa
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Veröffentlicht: Athens Ohio University Press c2010 (2012)
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Ralph Bunche : African American intellectual / Martin Kilson -- Ralph Bunche and the dawn of Africanist scholarship / David Anthony -- The making of an Africanist : Ralph Bunche in South Africa, 1937 / Robert Edgar -- Ralph Bunche and the decolonization of African studies : the paradox of power, morality, and scholarship / Elliott P. Skinner -- Ralph Bunche the Africanist : revisiting paradigms lost / Pearl T. Robinson -- Decolonization through trusteeship : the legacy of Ralph Bunche / Neta C. Crawford -- An unexpected challenge : Ralph Bunche as field commander in the Congo, 1960 / John Olver -- Ralph Bunche and Patrice Lumumba : the fatal encounter / Crawford Young -- Ralph Bunche, Patrice Lumumba, and the first Congo crisis / Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja -- Africa in the global decolonization process : the road to postcoloniality / Ralph A. Austen -- Epilogue / Charles P. Henry
Ralph J. Bunche (1904-1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department. In this position, Bunche played a key role in setting up the trusteeship system that provided important impetus for postwar decolonization ending European control of Africa as well as an international framework for the oversight of the decolonization process after the Second World War. Trustee for the Human Community is the first volum
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