| Description |
x, 450 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Chadwick F. Alger -- Pt. I. Overcoming and preventing violence. 1. Controlling weapons in the quest for peace: Non-offensive defence, arms control, disarmament, and conversion / Hans Gunter Brauch, Czeslaw Mesjasz and Bjorn Moller. 2. Enforcement and humanitarian intervention: Two faces of collective action by the United Nations / Raimo Vayrynen. 3. Enhancing United Nations peace-keeping / Robert C. Johansen. 4. United Nations peace-keeping and NGO peace-building: Towards partnership / Elise Boulding and Jan Oberg. 5. Coping with internal conflicts: Teaching the elephant to dance / Kumar Rupesinghe -- Pt. II. Peace-building: Creating economic and social structures that sustain human fulfilment. 6. Moving norms to political reality: Institutionalizing human rights standards through the UN system / Clair Apodaca, Michael Stohl and George Lopez. 7. The struggle in the UN system for wider participation in forming global economic policies / Ho-Won Jeong |
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8. The UN system in the vanguard of advancement of women: Equality, development, and peace / Hilkka Pietila and Jeanne Vickers. 9. Generating the political will for protecting the rights of refugees / Lucia Ann McSpadden and Anthony Ayok Chol -- Pt. III. Sharing and protecting the commons. 10. Ecological security and the United Nations system / Patricia M. Mische and Mauricio Andres Ribeiro. 11. Communications in the future UN system / Tapio Varis -- Pt. IV. Developing the foundations: Peace education. 12. The United Nations' role in peace education / Sanaa Osseiran and Betty Reardon. Conclusion: The potential of the United Nations system / Chadwick F. Alger -- App. Recommended new UN institutions and programmes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
United Nations.
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International relations.
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Peace.
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| Author |
Alger, Chadwick F., 1924-
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| LC no. |
98008997 |
| ISBN |
9280809733 paperback |
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