The Ralph Bunche Institute supports a number of events throughout the year.

UPCOMING EVENTS

DECEMBER 15, 2009, 6:00-7:30 PM, ROOM 5414
The Ralph Bunche Seminar
"The Revival of Nuclear Disarmament "
Randy Rydell, Senior Political Affairs Officer, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

NOVEMBER 11, 2009, 6:00-7:30 PM, ROOM C201
The Ralph Bunche Seminar
"South Asian Security and Pakistan as a “Failed State”"
Christophe Jaffrelot, Research Professor, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI, Science-Po, Paris)
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

NOVEMBER 11, 2009, 2:00-4:00 PM, ROOM 9205
“Human Rights in the New World Order”
Joseph Raz, Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law, Columbia University
Sponsored by Center for Global Ethics & Politics, and the Ph.D. programs in Philosophy and Political Science

OCTOBER 19, 2009, 12:30-2:00 PM, ROOM 8201
"Coming to the brink: Bolivia, Kenya and the Responsibility to Protect Roundtable"
George R. Gray Molina, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University; Elisabeth Lindenmayer, Director, UN Studies Program, Columbia University; Alvaro de Soto, Fellow, RBIIS, Associate Fellow,  Geneva Centre for Security Policy; Thomas G. Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science, Director, RBIIS
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

OCTOBER 13, 2009, 6:00-7:30 PM, ROOM C201
The Ralph Bunche Seminar
"Sexual Violence, Peace Mediation, and Resolution 1820"
Anne Marie Goetz, Chief Advisor, Governance Peace & Security, UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

PAST EVENTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, 6:00-7:30 PM, ROOM C201
The Ralph Bunche Seminar
"Demand-Driven Democratization"
Roland Rich, Executive Head, United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF)
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, UNITED NATIONS
Launch of UN Ideas That Changed the World
A discussion of lessons from ten years of UNIHP research was initiated by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Discussion led by authors,Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss. The discussion was moderated by UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and the discussant was José Antonio Ocampo, former Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, now professor at Columbia University and director of the Program in Economic and Political Development.
Sponsored by the UN Intellectual History Project

MAY 14, 2009, 6:00 PM, ROOM 5414
"Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa"
Francis M. Deng, Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations on the Prevention of Genocide; Remarks by Thomas G. Weiss, Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1920 or email: nnolutshungu@gc.cuny.edu
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, the Africa Research Group

APRIL 27, 2009
"Money Matters: Charting an economic dimension of peace processes"
Achim Wennmann, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Open to the public by registration only.
Please call: (212) 817-1920
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

APRIL 7, 2009, ROOM 9206
Global Governance Seminar Series: "The United Nations: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect"
Ramesh Thakur, Centre for International Governance Innovation
Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

MARCH 31, 2009, 9:00 AM TO 5:00 PM, ELEBASH RECITAL HALL
Conference: "The Ethics of Responsibility and the Modes of Protection"
Open to the public by registration only. Please call: (212) 817-2100
Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and Inter-University Consortium on Security and Humanitarian Action

MARCH 24, 2009, 12:30 TO 2:00 PM, ROOM TBA
Global Governance Seminar Series: "The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All"
Gareth Evans, International Crisis Group
Open to the public by registration only. Please call: (212) 817-2100
Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

MARCH 10, 2009, 12:30 TO 2:00 PM, ROOM 9205-9206
Global Governance Seminar Series: "Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for US Policymakers"
Lawrence Woocher, United States Institute of Peace
Open to the public by registration only. Please call: (212) 817-2100
Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

FEBRUARY 19, 2009
Global Governance Seminar Series: "Exercising R2P by addressing the preconditions of genocide and mass atrocities?"
Alex Bellamy, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (2008)
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

FEBRUARY 18, 2009
Panel: "How UN Ideas Gain Traction – Or Lose it"
Louis Emmerij presented on"Basic Needs in the 1970s"; Richard Jolly presented "Human Development in the 1990s"; Ramesh Thakur presented "The Responsibility to Protect after 2001"; and Neil MacFarlane presented "Human Security."
Sponsored by International Studies Association (ISA)

FEBRUARY 18, 2009
The Secretary-General's Report on the Responsibility to Protect: What Does It Ask States To Do? How Can Its Principles Be Advanced?
Gareth Evans, the former foreign minister of Australia and current co-chairman of the Global Centre’s International Advisory Board; H.E. Mr. Heraldo Muñoz, Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

FEBRUARY 16, 2009
ISA Presidential Address: What Happened To the Idea of World Government?
Thomas G. Weiss, Director, RBIIS; Co-director, UNIHP; President, ISA (2009-10)
Sponsored by International Studies Association (ISA)

FEBRUARY 10, 2009
Global Governance Seminar Series: "The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War"
Conor Foley, author, The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War (2008)
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

JANUARY 30, 2009
Zimbabwe: What Can be Done, Who Must Act?
Tawanda Mutasah, Director of Programs, Open Society Institute, and formerly founding chair of the National Constitutional Assembly; Valerie de Campos Mello, Senior Political Affairs Officer, UN Department of Political Affairs; Frank Donaghue, Chief Executive Officer, Physicians for Human Rights; Peter Godwin, Zimbabwean journalist and author of When A Crocodile Eats the Sun: a Memoir for Africa
Sponsored by The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

JANUARY 15-17, 2009
"The Nature and Role of International NGOs"
Thomas G. Weiss gave a presentation on “The ‘Third’ United Nations” at a Ditchely Foundation conference on “The Nature and Role of International NGOs.”
Sponsored by The Ditchely Foundation


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