2006 EVENTS

DECEMBER 12, 2006
"Shaping the Future: World Learning and Global Citizenship"
Carol Bellamy, President and CEO, World Learning/SIT
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, World Learning

DECEMBER 1-5, 2006
ACUNS Executive Committee Meeting
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Academic Council on the United Nations (ACUNS)

NOVEMBER 16, 2006
A Priority Agenda for the Next Secretary General? "UN Secretariat"
James O.C. Jonah
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

NOVEMBER 8, 2006
Global Governance Seminar Series: "Cultural Dialectics"
Mahmood Mamdani (invited), Department of Anthropology and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

NOVEMBER 1, 2006
Global Governance Seminar Series: "The Norm of Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and Global Warming"
Leslie Lowe, Program Director, Energy and the Environment, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

OCTOBER 26, 2006
A Priority Agenda for the Next Secretary General? "Peace and Security"
Edward Luck
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

OCTOBER 25, 2006
Global Governance Seminar Series: "Globalizing mining capital: a third wave of neoliberal reform for extractive industries of the third world"
Jeanette Graulau, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Lehman College
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

OCTOBER 19, 2006
A Priority Agenda for the Next Secretary General?
"Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention"
Iain Levine
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

OCTOBER 18, 2006
Global Governance Seminar Series: "Beyond Oil: the role of religion and religious communities in global warming"
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Shalom Center Philadelphia
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

OCTOBER 11, 2006
Global Governance Seminar Series: "The ideological uses of culture in global politics"
Marnia Lazreg, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

OCTOBER 4, 2006
Global Governance Seminar Series: "The Arab Human Development Report Series"
Dr. Azza Kharam, AHDR Coordinator, UNDP
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

OCTOBER 5, 2006
A Priority Agenda for the Next Secretary General?
"Development and Environment"
Richard Jolly
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

SEPTEMBER 19, 2005
A Rule-Based International Order: Illusory or Achievable?
Dankwart A. Rustow Memorial Lecture Gareth Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Crisis Group
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

SEPTEMBER 7, 2006
Fall 2006 Welcome Reception
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

MAY 23-24, 2006
Conference for the "Transformation of Humanitarianism" Project
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Social Science Research Council

APRIL 14, 2006
John H. E. Fried Memorial Fellowship application due
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

APRIL 5, 2006
UN Seminar Series: "Moving the Human Rights Commission/Council from the oversight of ECOSOC to that of the General Assembly"
Dr. Bertrand G. Ramcharan, Senior Fellow, The Ralph Bunche Institute of International Studies; Former Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

MARCH 29, 2006
UN Seminar Series: "Assessing the Work of the Disarmament Commission and the I.A.E.A."
H.E. Ambassador M. Javad Zarif, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

MARCH 24, 2006
CUNY Graduate Center reception at the 2006 International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Political Science Department

MARCH 22, 2006
UN Seminar Series: "The Human Rights Commission at ECOSOC"
Mr. Sarbuland Khan, Director, Division for ECOSOC Support and Coordination United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

MARCH 15, 2006
UN Seminar Series: "The Present Crisis in Nuclear Weapons Policies"
Mr. Jonathan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute; Co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nuclear Non-Proliferation of the American Bar Association
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

MARCH 8, 2006
UN Seminar Series: "Global Corporate Accountability Frameworks: The Role of Socially Responsible Investors"
The Reverend David Schilling, Director, Contract Supplier and Promoting Human Rights Groups, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

MARCH 1, 2006
UN Seminar Series: "The United Nations: Implementer or Obstacle?"
Adamantia Pollis, Professor (Emerita) and Senior Lecturer in Political Science, The New School for Social Research
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies

FEBRUARY 28, 2006
"Women in International Development and Security Policy"
Devaki Jain, development economist and founding member of DAWN, and author of the recently published Women, Development, and the UN
Barbara Haering, vice president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and member of the Swiss Parliament
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, CUNY Graduate Center Political Science Department

FEBRUARY 15, 2006
"From Darfur to Chad: Is the Instability Spreading?"
Speakers: Alex de Waal, Social Science Research Council & Harvard University; Roland Marchal, CERI, Paris; and Delphine Kemneloum Djiraibe, Peace and Reconciliation Initiative Committee, Chad. Moderator: Suliman Baldo, International Crisis Group.
Sponsored by The Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, Franciscans International, the International Crisis Group, the Mennonite Central Committee, the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and the Quaker United Nations Office

JANUARY 10, 2006
"Regional Political and Security Dynamics in Katanga and the DRC Elections"
First meeting of The Central Africa Policy Forum (CAPF) in New York. Speakers include: Jason Stearns, International Crisis Group; Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, UNDP; Herbert F. Weiss, Woodrow Wilson Center; Peter Rosenblum, Columbia University.
Sponsored by The Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, Franciscans International, the International Crisis Group, the Mennonite Central Committee, the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and the Quaker United Nations Office

JANUARY 9, 2006
"Transformation of Humanitarianism?"
Author meeting
Sponsored by Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and The Social Science Research Council

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