Bonn, 17-18 March; discussion on “Challenges for the United Nations in 2010”

Discussion about the past achievements and the future of the United Nations organised by the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

“Challenges for the United Nations in 2010”
17-18 March 2010, Bonn

The discussion is structured around the following events:

1) UN Ideas that changed the World
17 March 2010 at 15:00-18:00 in the LandesMuseum Bonn, Colmantstr. 14-16, 53115 Bonn

    Moderation:

• Ute Schaeffer, Head of Deutsche Welle-RADIO's Africa program
  
  Panelists:
  
  
• Louis Emmerij, Co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project (UNIHP)
• Nico Schrijver, Chair of Public International Law at Leiden University and Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at The Hague
• Flavia Pansieri, Executive Coordinator of United Nations Volunteers (tbc)

Louis Emmerij and Nico Schrijver will discuss lessons from ten years of research and present the project's capstone volume, UN Ideas That Changed the World as well as the forthcoming UNIHP volume Development without Destruction.

To register please visit the following website:
http://www.eadi.org/events/forthcoming-events/discussion-about-the-future-of-the-un.html.

2) Debate: New crises - new policy responses? Rethinking the role of the UN
18 March 2010 at 14:00-16:00, at the Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ), Dahlmannstraße 4, 53113 Bonn
The forthcoming period is likely to be far less certain as the UN faces multiple and inter-connected crises in climate, and energy, the end of an oligopolistic market with the emergence of new powers. Such uncertainties not only have the potential to impact adversely on levels of international relations, but also change the context for managing the global governance and in particular the architecture for environmental governance and resource management.  

     Moderation:

• Jürgen Wiemann, Head of the programme Development Cooperation and the World Trade System of the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) & EADI Deputy President

     Panelists:

• Louis Emmerij, Co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project (UNIHP)
• Nico Schrijver, Chair of Public International Law and Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University
• Anantha Duraiappah, Executive Director of International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)

To register please visit the follwoing website:
http://www.eadi.org/events/forthcoming-events/discussion-about-the-future-of-the-un.html.

Please bring your ID card or passport with you as you will need to show it upon entrance to the Ministry.