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WIDER convenes conference on growth and poverty
Building on themes covered in the latest World
Development Report, UNU World Institute for Development
Economics Research (UNU/WIDER) is organizing the Development
Conference on Growth and Poverty, in Helsinki May 25 and 26.
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Experts discuss
linkages between ozone, climate change treaties
Opportunities for harmonizing implementation of the ozone
and climate change conventions took centre stage when experts gathered at
the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass,
November 2 and 3 at a meeting organized by UNU, UNEP, MIT's
Global Accords Program and the Alliance
for Global Sustainability.
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Janine Wedel |
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WIDER project collaborator wins
Grawemeyer
Award
Professor Janine R. Wedel, a participant in the
UNU/WIDER
project "Why Some Countries Avoid Conflicts While Others
Fail", has won the 2001 Grawemeyer
World Order Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
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UNU/INRA
upgrades plant tissue culture laboratory
UNU
Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU/INRA) has completed a
major upgrade of the University of Ghana's plant tissue culture
laboratory, an important facility for research, training, germplasm
conservation and dissemination of information on indigenous African food
crops.
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Entries
invited for Eisaku Sato essay contest
The Eisaku Sato Memorial Foundation for
Cooperation with the United Nations University is accepting entries
for its annual international essay contest. This year’s theme:
"The Role of the United Nations in the International Community
of the 21st Century."
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International peace agreements available on INCORE
website
The Initiative on Conflict Resolution and
Ethnicity (INCORE), a
joint project of UN University and the University of Ulster, this
month launched a redesigned and expanded Peace
Agreements section on its website.
