Swords Into Plowshares: Building Peace Through the United Nations
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This booklet may serve as both a provocative expose, as well as a useful reader, for academic courses addressing how decision makers should take active steps toward remedying [...] problems within the ambit of the UN's competence. International decision-makers would be wise to consider its recommended approaches in the continuing quest for collective solutions to international crisis. In: Newsletter UN21 Interest Group, 2006.
Table of contents
Preface,
Chapter 1, Improving Decision-making in the UN Security Council, Danilo Türk,
Chapter 2, Bush’s War has Damaged the United Nations, Hans Corell,
Chapter 3, Human Rights and Economic and Social Development, Bertrand G. Ramcharan,
Chapter 4, The Mutual Feedback between Sustainable Development and Human Rights: Adding Responsibility as a Catalyst, Jutta F. Bertram-Nothnagel,
Chapter 5, The UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Efforts, Eric Rosand,
Chapter 6, Reflections on the Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Resolutions, Giuseppe Nesi,
Chapter 7, Assistance to States Challenged by Unconstitutional Means, Roy S. Lee,
Chapter 8, Nuclear Verification in North Korea and Iran, Berhanykun Andemicael,
Chapter 9, United Nations Partnerships: Working Together for a Better World, Amir A. Dossal,
Chapter 10, Commitment to Multilateralism, A. Missouri Sherman-Peter,
Chapter 11, Will the UN Hope Survive, Newton Bowles.
Chapter 1, Improving Decision-making in the UN Security Council, Danilo Türk,
Chapter 2, Bush’s War has Damaged the United Nations, Hans Corell,
Chapter 3, Human Rights and Economic and Social Development, Bertrand G. Ramcharan,
Chapter 4, The Mutual Feedback between Sustainable Development and Human Rights: Adding Responsibility as a Catalyst, Jutta F. Bertram-Nothnagel,
Chapter 5, The UN Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Efforts, Eric Rosand,
Chapter 6, Reflections on the Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Resolutions, Giuseppe Nesi,
Chapter 7, Assistance to States Challenged by Unconstitutional Means, Roy S. Lee,
Chapter 8, Nuclear Verification in North Korea and Iran, Berhanykun Andemicael,
Chapter 9, United Nations Partnerships: Working Together for a Better World, Amir A. Dossal,
Chapter 10, Commitment to Multilateralism, A. Missouri Sherman-Peter,
Chapter 11, Will the UN Hope Survive, Newton Bowles.
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