A Millennium of Minds

Cornerstones as Stumbling Blocks (10) Perceptions of sovereignty and of impartiality need to be addressed if the UN is to change. Duska Anastasijevic A Strong, Transnational Coalition (11) Building a transnational coalition can keep undemocratic regimes from acquiring arms. Oscar Arias Sánchez Reinforcing a Humanitarian Mandate (12) Human rights violations on a large scale can no longer hide behind the veil of sovereignty. Agon Demjaha The World Wants Guidance (13) It should be avoidable that some countries face total devastation by acts of nature ... or of humans. J.E.J.M. van Landewijk Putting People First (14) Finding a balance between State security and human security. Chris Landsberg This Did Not Work in Seattle (15) Going home empty-handed once compelled agreements. No longer. Klaus Schwab

A Century in Retrospect

Not the End of History (18) For over 50 years, the UN has been an architect of standards. Vladlen Martynov Gender and Globalization (69) Gains in women's interests are susceptible to loss. Christine Chinkin

Weaving the Global Compact

A World Opened, A World Protected (35) Sustaining the Single Global Economic Space (36) John G. Ruggie Internalizing Human Rights in Business Practices (38) Mary Robinson The Triple Bottom Line (39) Klaus Töpfer Business. Its Direct Stake in Putting Human Needs First (42) Juan Somavia Civilizing Markets (43) Jem Bendell Open Markets, Open Values (46) Kofi Annan

Special Feature

In a special section coordinated by Horst Rutsch, the Chronicle looks at the relationship between conflict diamonds and human security. Diamonds Are the Heart of the Matter (47) Talking with Ian Smillie and Lansana Gberie Essay: Fighting for Peace (51) Lansana Gberie

Commentary

Should ECOSOC Be Reformed? (27) Julian Disney Energy: 2000 (76) Ingvar B. Fridleifsson Opinion: Can International Human Rights Activism Be Reconciled with Agendas of National Interest? (78) J. Quinn Martin

Plus

WIPO and the Protection of Industrial Drawings (20) Phillippe Petit WIPO Declares WWF Winner, Sting Stung and 10th Crime Congress Tackles Cyber-Sabotage (21) A Dialogue on A Better World for All (22) Konrad Raiser and Kofi Annan Geneva 2000: Five Years Since Copenhagen (24) Inga Eggers The Changing Character of Food Emergencies (61) Hartwig de Haen Kosovo Journal: After the Food Emergency and Kosovars Now Have to Return (62) Sergei Vinogradov Towards Gender Equality -- Beijing+5 (71) with reports on a new Web site and a CD-ROM Sven T. Siefken Microcredit: Moving Women Forward (75) Denise Hughes and Anna Awimbo

Departments

PeaceWatch (55) SystemWatch (64) UN Compensation Commission DisarmamentWatch (67) 3rd Act of Nuclear Era Douglas Mattern Passing By (79)