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| Issue 37: May-June 2005 | ||
Pantanal may become next
Everglades, UNU experts warn
South America's Pantanal wetlands, one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems, is at growing risk from development and climate change, UNU experts warn. MORE
Call for world aid to repair
Iraq's devastated universities
Some 84% of Iraq’s higher education institutions have been burnt, looted or destroyed while four dozen academics have been assassinated according to a UNU analysis. MORE
How to turn warlords
into peacelords
A new INCORE study examines approaches that will serve the world community's ambitions to transform warlords into leaders with more positive intentions. MORE
Reforming International Environmental Governance
Regulating Bioprospecting: Institutions for Drug Research, Access and Benefit Sharing
Mike Reed named director
of UNU's software institute
UNU Rector Hans van Ginkel has announced the appointment of Dr. Mike Reed as Director of UNU International Institute for Software Technology. MORE
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ANALYSIS:
THE NEW AGRICULTURE Dynamic sector sowing the seeds of success In some of the world's poorest countries, entrepreneurial flair, far-sighted planning and good old-fashioned luck are creating a new type of agriculture that could become a major force in promoting poverty reduction and sustainable development. MORE
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Symposium will test guidelines
for managing sacred natural sites
New guidelines for protecting and managing sacred natural sites will be debated and tested at an international symposium to be held at UNU Centre May 30-June 2. MORE
Youth Leadership for Global
Governance course set for June
UNU International Leadership Institute's upcoming 10-day course on youth leadership for global governance will provide input to the World Youth Peace Summit later this year. MORE
UNU-FNP involved in
two African conferences
UNU Food and Nutrition Programme (UNU-FNP) is sponsoring two important nutrition conferences in South Africa later this year. MORE
Deepak Nayyar keynote speaker
at WIDER jubilee conference
UNU-WIDER has released the programme for its 20th anniversary conference: WIDER Thinking Ahead: The Future of Development Economics. MORE
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Developing
countries still
waiting for their
'green gold'
At a UN University event in New
York, experts debated how developing countries can attract investments in drug research and development based on genetic resources.
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Iraqis seek INCORE input
on post-conflict issues
INCORE experts conducted a briefing session on post-conflict issues with newly-elected Iraqi politicians facing the task of building democracy in the southern city of Basra. MORE
INWEH joins World Bank
project on coral reefs
UNU-INWEH will investigate connectivity of life forms among coral reef patches as part of a World Bank initiative on Coral Reef Research and Capacity-Building. MORE
HONORARY DOCTORATE
University
of Ghana
honours UNU Rector
UNU Rector Hans van Ginkel was awarded an
honorary Doctor of Science degree during a March 12 ceremony at the 55th
Congregation of the University of Ghana, Legon. MORE
Ecosystems checkup yields poor
prognosis for developing world
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment's most worrying findings are the losses the developing world will suffer from further decline in the world’s ecosystems. MORE
Intervention based on rules
Establishing principles to guide the use of force will make it harder to apply the humanitarian label to self-serving interventions, while making the Security Council more responsive to the security needs of civilians. MORE