| Issue 19: September 2002 |
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WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
UNU submits final report to
Johannesburg Summit
UN University has presented its final report to the World Summit on
Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Entitled Making Integrated
Solutions Work for Sustainable Development, it is the fifth UNU
contribution to the WSSD process. MORE
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Initiative on science for sustainability to be unveiled
A new UNU initiative aimed at creating grassroots sustainable development curricula in universities worldwide will be announced at Johannesburg. -
Governance report links slow progress to disagreements over approach
The lack of coherency within the institutional architecture of sustainable development reflects disagreement about the correct approach to achieving sustainablity, according to a UNU/IAS report submitted to the WSSD.
Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg,
venue for the ministerial portion of the Summit -
Partnership projects on MEA inter-linkages, mountains announced
UNU is announcing its participation in several new Type 2 partnerships as one of the highlights of its mission to the Johannesburg Summit. -
Stronger organisations needed for Summit success
Strong institutions are key to solving the world’s pressing sustainable development concerns, says W. Bradnee Chambers. WSSD will be a strategic meeting where progress on these issues could be made.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
INCORE Director pens
book on N. Ireland peace process
The Director of UNU Institute for Conflict Resolution (UNU/INCORE),
Mari Fitzduff,
a participant in many of the processes that led to Northern Ireland's
power-sharing agreement, has written a book detailing the many strategic
developments that led to the historic settlement. MORE
CNN
INTERNATIONAL
New UNU ads focus on
sustainable development
A third series of television public service
announcements about the work of UN University and its
international network of research and training centres and programmes is
being broadcast to television viewers worldwide. MORE
Research project leads to new book on cities and globalization
Following research undertaken within the UNU/IAS Global Cities and Telematics project, University of Chicago sociologist Saskia Sassen and a group of distinguished contributors have expanded on her seminal work, The Global City, in the new book Global Networks, Linked Cities. MORE
Famed wheat researcher to speak on agriculture and peace
The scientist who saved millions of lives by developing high-yielding wheat varieties will deliver the fourth U Thant Distinguished Lecture at UNU Centre on October 1. MORE
Symposium to promote sustainable management of headwaters
An international symposium to promote land management strategies that advance sustainable management of headwaters will be the first of a series of UN University contributions to International Year of Freshwater 2003. MORE
Innovation in Asia topic for INTECH annual lecture
Nathan Rosenberg, one of the world's foremost experts on the causes and consequences of technological change, will deliver this year's UNU Institute for New Technologies Amilcar Herrera Lecture. MORE
Diplomacy's odd couple, the U.S. and UN
Many Americans see the United Nations as a pretentious, ponderous and pompous non-power in world affairs. Yet many non-American critics of the UN also despair at the periodic U.S. tendency to behave like a rogue superpower, responsible to no one but the U.S. Congress and the American voter. MORE