The future of the United Nations system : potential for the twenty-first century [Material Impreso] / edited by Chadwick F. Alger

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Contenido: Part I: Ovewrcoming and preventing violence. Controlling weapons in the quest for peace: Non-offensive defence, arms control, disarmament, and conversion / Hans Günter Brauch, Czeslaw Mesjasz, Björn Möller.- Enforcemente and humanitarian intervention: two faces of collective action by the United Nations / Raimo Väyrynen.- Enhancing United Nations peace-Keeping / Robert C. Johansen.- United Nations peace-Keeping and NGO peace-building: Towards partnership / Elise Boulding and Jan Oberg.- Coping with internal conflicts: Teaching the elephant to dance / Kumar Rupesinghe.- Part II: Peace-building: Creating economic and social structures that sustain human fulfillment. Moving norms o 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 Pietilä, Jeanne Vickers.- Generating the political will for protecting the rights of refugees / Lucia Ann McSpadden, Anthony Ayok Chol.- Part II: 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.- Part IV: developing the foundations: Peace education. The United Nations’ role in peace education / Sanaa Osseiran, Betty Reardon.- Conclusion: The potential of the United Nations system / Chadwick F. Alger.- Appendix: Recommended new UN institutions and programmes.

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