The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is pleased to invite you to the second lecture in our lecture series The United Nations at 70: Fit for “The Future we want”? with Sir Richard Jolly, Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex on
The United Nations at 70: A historical appraisal
on Thursday, 7May 2015, 17:00-19:00 h at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn.
After the event, light refreshments will be served. The event will be held in English.
Please register with your name and contact details here.
Co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project, Sir Richard Jolly is an eminent expert on the organisational evolution of the United Nations system. His talk will provide a ‘big picture’ of the world organisation’s past achievements, missed opportunities and, indeed, outright failures. On the basis of his historical appraisal, he will turn to the United Nations’ future challenges and derive essential lessons on how to (not) address them. At 70, can the UN be considered “fit for purpose”? What needs to be done to strengthen it for the challenges of the 21st century?
2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. Moreover, 2015 does not merely mark a jubilee but will see a number of landmark events that are bound to shape the world organisation’s – and thereby the world’s – future: an emergent sustainable development agenda awaits final agreement, a global accord to save the planet from unabated global warming is finally to be reached, peacekeeping is due for yet another makeover.
At this occasion, the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW) of the University of Bonn, the Liaison Office International Academic Sciences of the UN City of Bonn and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) jointly organised a public lecture series. Positioned at the interface of research and policy-making, it aims to review how some of the most pressing global challenges are addressed by the United Nations. Taking a long-term perspective, eminent experts will offer critical appraisals of the United Nations’ role in pertinent policy fields such as sustainable global development, peacekeeping, human and refugee rights or international climate policy and contextualise them in view of current processes and perennial reform debates. Ultimately, these talks will contribute to answering the question whether the UN is fit to deliver on the “future we want” – the rallying call of the United Nations’ “Rio+20” summit in 2012.
Source: Information by DIE from 28.04.2015The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is pleased to invite you to the second lecture in our lecture series The United Nations at 70: Fit for “The Future we want”? with Sir Richard Jolly, Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex on
The United Nations at 70: A historical appraisal
on Thursday, 7 May 2015, 17:00-19:00 h at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn.
After the event, light refreshments will be served. The event will be held in English.
Please register with your name and contact details here.
Co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project, Sir Richard Jolly is an eminent expert on the organisational evolution of the United Nations system. His talk will provide a ‘big picture’ of the world organisation’s past achievements, missed opportunities and, indeed, outright failures. On the basis of his historical appraisal, he will turn to the United Nations’ future challenges and derive essential lessons on how to (not) address them. At 70, can the UN be considered “fit for purpose”? What needs to be done to strengthen it for the challenges of the 21st century?
2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. Moreover, 2015 does not merely mark a jubilee but will see a number of landmark events that are bound to shape the world organisation’s – and thereby the world’s – future: an emergent sustainable development agenda awaits final agreement, a global accord to save the planet from unabated global warming is finally to be reached, peacekeeping is due for yet another makeover.
At this occasion, the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW) of the University of Bonn, the Liaison Office International Academic Sciences of the UN City of Bonn and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) jointly organised a public lecture series. Positioned at the interface of research and policy-making, it aims to review how some of the most pressing global challenges are addressed by the United Nations. Taking a long-term perspective, eminent experts will offer critical appraisals of the United Nations’ role in pertinent policy fields such as sustainable global development, peacekeeping, human and refugee rights or international climate policy and contextualise them in view of current processes and perennial reform debates. Ultimately, these talks will contribute to answering the question whether the UN is fit to deliver on the “future we want” – the rallying call of the United Nations’ “Rio+20” summit in 2012.
Source: Information by DIE from 28.04.2015