Financial Administration at the UN: An Insight into the United Nations Secretariat (1972–2005)

2015 ◽  
pp. 265-270
Author(s):  
Cecil K. Y. Ee
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Financial Administration ◽  
Insight Into

Responsibility of the United Nations for the Activities of Private Military and Security Companies in Peacekeeping Operations: In Need of a New International Instrument

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-187
Author(s):  
Jessica Pressler
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Legal Obligation ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
World Organization ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Security Companies

This chapter deals with the rising deployment of private military and security companies (pmscs) in peacekeeping operations of the United Nations and the demand for an increased willingness on part of the international organisation to take on responsibility for potential wrongdoings by its contracted personnel. It aims to demonstrate that the un is vested with a legal obligation to ensure that the conduct of private contractors under its command complies with obligations under international law and identifies possibilities to formulate a new regulatory framework in light of the recent Montreux Process and the Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations. The chapter further outlines ways for remedial mechanisms for potential victims of pmsc peacekeeper wrongdoings and offers an insight into the general tension between the organization’s immunity and its accountability. While the un’s reliance on pmscs in peacekeeping operations is an efficient mean to secure troops, it must go hand in hand with the compliance of international legal obligations and institutional responsibility so as to ensure its legitimacy and credibility as a world organization mandated to maintain peace and security and to respect human rights.

Secondment in the United Nations Secretariat: An Alternative View

1966 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Kay
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Political Contention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Insight Into

With the increased concern in the post-1960 period over the problem of achieving an equitable geographical distribution in the United Nations Secretariat, renewed attention has been focused on the role of short-term appointments in the recruitment of Secretariat personnel. What in the previous fifteen years of the Organization's history had been viewed largely as a technical facet of personnel policy suddenly became an issue of political contention in both the Fifth (Administrative and Budgetary) Committee and in the General Assembly itself. This article will first briefly detail the various positions in the debate over the role of short-term appointments. Its main focus, however, will be on the institutional dynamics to which secondment relates and on an attempt to gain insight into its operation through the experience of the European Communities with this type of appointment.

A Methodology for Building Faculty Support for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Maloni ◽  
Shane D. Smith ◽  
Stuart Napshin
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Faculty Support ◽  
Business Faculty ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Responsible Management ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Insight Into

Evidence from extant literature indicates that faculty support is a critical driver for implementing the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), particularly for schools pursuing an advanced, cross-disciplinary level of sustainability integration. However, there is limited existing research offering insight into how to build faculty support for sustainability programs. Addressing this gap, the authors present an exploratory methodology using a survey and structural model to measure differential faculty support for sustainability. The methodology also increases awareness of the underlying drivers of and barriers to expanding the reach of sustainability across business faculty, ultimately allowing PRME institutions to address their distinct needs. The authors describe application of the methodology at a recent PRME signatory institution, including actions taken as a result of intriguing findings that identified difficulties in gaining broad faculty acceptance of PRME.

Do Not Intervene: unamir’s Rules of Engagement from the Inside

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 116-135
Author(s):  
Phillip Drew ◽  
Major (ret’d) Brent Beardsley
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Force Structure ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Failure To Protect ◽  
Insight Into

This article provides a first-hand account on how the rules of engagement (roe) for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (unamir) were developed and implemented. It provides insight into the difficulties that were encountered in developing the roe and getting them authorized. While the mission is often criticized for its failure to protect civilians from genocidal violence, the paper explores the factors that influenced the creation of the rules, and why, given its force structure, unamir was incapable of preventing or stopping the violence.

The Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone. Rationale and Challenges

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiyanjana Mphepo
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
International Community ◽  
International Criminal Justice ◽  
Residual Functions ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Government ◽  
Insight Into

This article provides an insight into the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL), which was established by an agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone, to carry out the essential residual functions of the Special Court for Sierra Leone when it closes. The RSCSL epitomizes the commitment of the UN, the Sierra Leone Government, and the international community to ensure the continued protection of witnesses, the proper enforcement of the sentences of persons convicted by the SCSL, the continued respect of the rights of such persons by providing them with a sound judicial mechanism for the review of convictions and sentences, and that there is no impunity for the sole remaining SCSL fugitive after the closure of the SCSL. If the RSCSL manages to overcome the challenges identified in this article, it will become an important pillar of the new architecture of international criminal justice.

Heritage Foodways as Matrix for Cultural Resurgence: Evidence from Rural Peru

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raúl Matta
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Symbiotic Relation ◽  
Peasant Farmers ◽  
Local Perspectives ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract:This article explores critical directions in the study of cultural heritage and, in particular, food heritage research. Its goal is to deliver insight into local perspectives produced outside mainstream heritage organizations. Strategies implemented jointly by peasant farmers of rural Peru and non-governmental organizations committed to promoting cultural resurgence show how food discloses the symbiotic relation between nature and culture in these indigenous worlds, and allows for claims grounded in social, political, and economic imaginaries. The initiatives described in this article develop within transnational networks of partners and interlocutors but outside of universalist pretensions. They constitute food heritage that differs from that of global cultural actors such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the United Nations by addressing only the needs of local communities and not complying with mechanisms that bring prestige and revenues to states and powerful cultural entrepreneurs. Globally nurtured, but locally implemented, these locally based initiatives seek out and take advantage of opportunities in strategic, proactive fashions.

scholarly journals Women or Leaders? Practices of Narrating the United Nations as a Gendered Institution

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-369
Author(s):  
Ingvild Bode
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Women Leaders ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Gender Parity ◽  
Senior Women ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The United Nations has been an important forum for promoting women's rights, but women are still underrepresented at the most senior levels of its leadership. This points to persistent obstacles in reaching gender parity at the UN, despite the organization's overt commitment to this objective. Situated in feminist institutionalist insights, I argue that the institutionalization of gender inequality through practices in the UN as a gendered institution can account for continued barriers to women leadership. This makes contributions to feminist institutionalist literature in international relations by taking it to the individual microlevel. Gendered practices sustain, inform, and manifest themselves in four interconnected processes that reinforce gendered divisions of subordination: positional divides, symbols and imagery, everyday interactions, and individual identity (based on Acker 1990, 146–47; Scott 1986). These processes and their practices become accessible through the narrative analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with senior women leaders at the UN. By recognizing their narratives as valid forms of insight into the study of the UN, this approach recognizes women leaders’ agency as opposed to portraying them as numbers only.

scholarly journals Contemporary changes in the ethnic structure of the population in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Saša Milosavljević ◽  
Jovo Medojević
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Ethnic Segregation ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Autonomous Province ◽  
Insight Into

Twenty years (1999 - 2019) after the end of the conflict in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, it can be stated that nowhere in Europe is there such ethnic segregation of the population as is the case with the AP of Kosovo and Metohija. Following the withdrawal of pumped security forces from the entire territory of Kosovo and Metohija and the entry of the United Nations peacekeeping force into the Serbian Autonomous Province, Kosovo Albanians carried out their persecution from Kosovo through terrorist attacks on Serbs and other non-Albanian populations (Montenegrins, Gorans, Roma, Ashkali) carried out their persecution from Kosovo and Metohija and fundamentally changed the ethnic structure of the Province. An insight into the majority of 223.081 exiles and displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija indicates an exodus against the Serbs. The number of displaced Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians is estimated at about 100.000. The mass persecution of the Serb and other non-Albanian populations has resulted in tremendous changes in the ethnic structure of the Province, which today, with 93% of the total population, is dominated by Albanians, while other ethnic communities have a participation of 7%.

scholarly journals CONTEMPORARY CHANGES IN THE ETHNIC STRUCTURE OF THE POPULATION IN THE AUTONOMOUS PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saša Milosavljević ◽  
Jovo Medojević
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Ethnic Segregation ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Autonomous Province ◽  
Insight Into

Twenty years (1999 - 2019) after the end of the conflict in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, it can be stated that nowhere in Europe is there such ethnic segregation of the population as is the case with the AP of Kosovo and Metohija. Following the withdrawal of pumped security forces from the entire territory of Kosovo and Metohija and the entry of the United Nations peacekeeping force into the Serbian Autonomous Province, Kosovo Albanians carried out their persecution from Kosovo through terrorist attacks on Serbs and other non-Albanian populations (Montenegrins, Gorans, Roma, Ashkali) carried out their persecution from Kosovo and Metohija and fundamentally changed the ethnic structure of the Province. An insight into the majority of 223.081 exiles and displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija indicates an exodus against the Serbs. The number of displaced Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians is estimated at about 100.000. The mass persecution of the Serb and other non-Albanian populations has resulted in tremendous changes in the ethnic structure of the Province, which today, with 93% of the total population, is dominated by Albanians, while other ethnic communities have a participation of 7%.

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