| At Half Mast |
Vision of Global Solidarity
The Service of the United Nations is Calling
'Un Homme de terrain'
Shashi Tharoor
A First-hand Account of 19 August 2003
Salim Lone recounts his experience of the attack on the
United Nations headquarters in Baghdad
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| The Nobel Peace Prize |
The United Nations and its specialized agencies and staff were awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize eight times over the course of half a century. This section was written, except where
indicated, by Nuchhi R. Currier
Horst Rutsch
'Nation shall not rise up against nation...'
'Keeping pace with history in the making'
'Shaping the high expectations of the office'
Nobel Peace Laureates
Employing 'weapons of peace'
'Patiently, undramatically, but not unsuccessfully'
'Renewed recognition as testament to its success'
'The impartial soldiers'
'The only negotiable route to global peace'
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| Ralph Bunche Centenary |
'May I Speak a Word or Two Against Brotherhood?'
Brian Urquhart
Memories, Reflections … and Observations
Ralph Bunche, Jr.
David K. J. Jeffrey
'As Alfred Nobel finally discerned,
people are never deterred from the folly of war by the stark terror of it.'
From Ralph Bunche's Nobel Lecture, delivered at the University of Oslo on 11 December 1950
Cândido Portinari (1903—1962), Brazil's master of modernist painting, created two giant panels interpreting the objective of the United Nations Charter, "to save succeeding generations
from the scourge of war". Above, the left panel depicts "Peace"; the right panel, "War". The twin murals, presented by the Brazilian Government as a gift to the United Nations in 1957, today dominate the Delegates' Lobby of the General Assembly building at UN Headquarters in New York.
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| Peace and Security |
Developing Public-Private Partnerships
John J. Maresca
Trails of Peace in the Balkans
Evgenii Vassilev
Rogelio Pfirter
Jean Lint
Darrell Dela Rosa
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| Departments |
Julian R. Hunte, OBE, Saint Lucia's Minister of External Affairs, is the President of the 58th General Assembly
Mexico Hosts Global Forum on Reinventing Government
President Vicente Fox
Reviewed by Kristin Gilmore
Reviewed by Consuelo Remmert
Seeing a Hemisphere United by Health
Mirta Roses Periago
Helping Women Become Economically Independent
Richenda Van Leeuwen
Rory Clarke pays tribute to Robert Batscha
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| EducationWatch |
Donnette Critchlow
Ben Wisner and James Lewis debate the causes for the collapse of schools and hospitals during moderate earthquakes
Carole Sumner Krechman and Brandon F. Shamim
Edmundo Werna and Claudia Schneider
Lawrence LeBlanc
Ingfrid Schuetz-Mueller and Ingolf Schuetz-Mueller
Ghassan Abdullah and Adina Shapiro
George Kent
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| Global Food Security |
Horst Rutsch
Louise O. Fresco
Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Eliseo Ponce and Ben Bradshaw
John Dixon and Aidan Gulliver
Christopher Briggs
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