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UNU-ISP and McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) held a workshop at the University of Sarajevo from June 23 to 25 as part of a joint research project which draws upon local perspectives to deepen understanding of peacebuilding challenges, and thereby recommend ways to improve UN and inter-governmental approaches to peacebuilding.
The United Nations University recently held its first global seminar in The Caribbean. The seminar, hosted by the Institute of International Relations (IIR), University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago on the theme "Regional Governance: Challenges and Opportunities" was held from June 28 to 30. In his opening remarks, Timothy M. Shaw, the director of the Institute of International Relations at UWI stated that the UNU Global Seminar would build on existing networks between UWI and other United Nations agencies, and as UNU's first seminar in the Caribbean region, would open new opportunities for research collaboration between UNU researchers and researchers in the region.
Asia Pacific Academy of Business In Society (APABIS) Annual ConferenceDate: November 4-5, 2010 Location: U Thant Hall, UNU HeadquartersThis important international conference reflects lessons learnt and being learned from the global financial crisis, from the climate change prognosis and...
The Prosper.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development is given annually to young scientists or researchers, based in the Asia-Pacific region, who have made significant contributions in the area of Sustainable Development. The award is open to those researchers who...
Together with, among others, Maastricht University Rector Jo Ritzen, European Research Council Professor Helga Nowotny and Vice-chancellor of Greenwich University and former UK Higher Education Minister Baroness Tessa Blackstone, UNU-MERIT Director Luc Soete has worked out and signed a manifesto called Empowering European Universities. The manifesto calls for increased private finance as the solution to raising funds for higher education in the future and solve the problem of under-finance which many universities currently suffer from.
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