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| Issue 30: March–April 2004 |
INSTITUTE OF
ADVANCED STUDIES
Need to regulate
Antarctic
bioprospecting – report
Work
should be stepped up on international agreements to oversee genetic prospecting
efforts in 
INRA launches Internet guide
to assist African scientists
UNU-INRA has developed a new Internet resource to help African scientists, academics and students to find information about new natural resource technologies. MORE
UNU research centre
moving to Yokohama
UNU Institute of Advanced Studies will move from Tokyo to new offices in the Pacifico Yokohama convention centre. The move will be completed April 1. MORE
UNU, Costa Rica join forces
in biotech capacity building
UN University is teaming with Costa Rica's national research council to expand its influence in biotechnology capacity building in Latin America and the Caribbean. MORE
REGIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES
Two
books, two looks
at African regionalism
African regionalism is the subject of two
new books co-edited by Fredrik Söderbaum,
an associate research fellow with UNU-CRIS.
MORE
Regions may hold key to
global security concerns
Is regional security the path to better global governance? That's the question underlying a UNU-CRIS project probing the links between the UN and regional agencies. MORE
New books on Asian security,
environmental governance
New titles: Broadening Asia's Security Discourse and Agenda; The Danube – Environmental Monitoring of an International River; and Emerging Forces in Environmental Governance. MORE
End Catch 22 on indigenous
knowledge, report urges
A new report recommends eliminating the requirement that, in order to protect their secrets, indigenous peoples must put them in the public domain for all to see. MORE
WIDER to launch inequality
studies at two US events
UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research launch a series of studies on growth, inequality and poverty at events in New York and Washington DC in April. MORE
INCORE announces three
Summer School courses
UNU-INCORE is offering courses on peace project management, track two diplomacy and evalutation of peace projects at this year's Summer School. MORE
Leading Transition course
scheduled for May 28
UNU International Leadership Academy is currently recruiting participants for its new four-week Global Course on Leading Transition scheduled May 28-June 29. MORE
African nutrition leadership
seminars set for October
UNU Food and Nutrition Programme will hold the third seminar in its African Nutrition Leadership Programme (ANLP) series October 5-18 in South Africa. MORE
Calendarof events
& meetings
2004
New
York
Speakers address challenge
of building peace after war
The role of education and policing in bringing democratic governance to post-conflict societies was debated at this year's EU-UNU Tokyo Global Forum. MORE
INTECH hosts workshops
for ACP policymakers
UNU-INTECH is one of the partners in a programme to generate information on agricultural innovation in six African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. MORE
Experts debate human
rights and globalization
Before a packed auditorium at UN headquarters, an expert panel explored the impact of globalization on social and economic rights. MORE
Money talks loudest in
battle to save biodiversity
Business represents a threat to biodiversity but also a potential source of help through innovation, funding and technology, says a UNU-IAS researcher. MORE
UNU-CRIS steps up
training activities
Two years after its inception, UNU-CRIS is mobilising the internal expertise developed from ongoing research projects for training and capacity building activities. MORE
Stop exploitation of
indigenous knowledge
Indigenous knowledge is still threatened by international copyright and patent rules under the WTO's Trade Related Intellectual Property Agreement (TRIPs). MORE
Hope for peace between
India and Pakistan
Relations between India and Pakistan are the most hopeful in decades following a series of unilateral steps by each side, matched by reciprocal concessions from the other. MORE
How the Iraq war
harmed the UN
Iraq was a no-win situation for the UN. Advocates of war condemned us for failing to enforce Iraqi compliance; opponents faulted us for failing to punish the aggressors. MORE