The League of Nations: From Collective Security to Global Rearmament
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In the wake of the First World War, at the Peace Conference at Versailles, US President Wilson called for the creation of a League of Nations for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small nations alike. For the first time, conflicts between nations were a matter of global concern. Numerous key areas — social, economic and statistics, health, labour — were dealt with either directly by the League or indirectly by its specialized agencies. The League’s lifetime (1919-1947) saw the creation of bodies that would be at the origin of the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the World Health Organization and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Their achievements were manifold and though some of them were "revived" as United Nations offices or specialized agencies after the Second World War, they were inherited from the League of Nations.
U N IT E D NAT I O N S / I N T E R N AT I O N A L P E AC E A N D SE C UR I T Y
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the first international agreement setting out freedoms, rights and entitlements for all humanity to claim. It emphasizes the inextricable relationship between fundamental freedoms and social justice, and their connection with peace and security. The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS
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the Charter after World War II, countries had sts. Old empires were on the decline and a on the horizon, with the advent of indepenhroughout the colonial world. The Charter ect future generations from the scourge of e for the advancement and prosperity of
CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
her things, the Charter establishes the principles of the United Nations; sets out s become member States; establishes the ans of the United Nations and how they with which powers; draws a new architecture c settlement of disputes; and directs what be taken in cases of threats to peace, breaches acts of aggression.
e Charter is the foundation of international curity, and is more relevant than ever as me increasingly interconnected and interde-
Escaping Victimhood Children, Youth and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
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This publication argues that “gender” is a fundamental battleground on which Al Qaeda, the Taliban and their types have to be defeated. Issues of regressive radicalism, literalism, militancy and terrorism can only be solved through people-centred interventions. Therefore, relevant governments and civil society should promote an alternative culture of growth, self-expression and actualization for Muslim men. To achieve sustainable counterterrorism results, Aslam recommends underlining masculinities in Muslim contexts and expanding the scope of required interventions beyond those confined to Islam(ism), the opposing sects and ideological movements of which rarely agree. This book also includes empirical data from a pilot study conducted on Pakistani Muslim masculinities.
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By placing the demons within both migration and violent citizenship and in a longer historical perspective, this book succeeds in surpassing current interpretations of the 2008 violence against immigrants in the townships as just resulting from xenophobia. The authors masterfully show that the politics of statecraft – notably the African National Congress’ (ANC) language of multicultural dominance – inspired a fatal depolitisation of difference. The very coherence of this collection offers a challenging analysis of struggle over belonging and denial of difference that is of much broader relevance than South Africa alone.
Peter Geschiere, Department of African Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town
It is these events and subsequent consequences for the ordering of power, population and place that this book explores. Exorcising the Demons Within makes sense of recent antioutsider violence by situating it within an extended history of South African statecraft that both produced the conditions for the attacks and has been reshaped by it. Drawing on an interdisciplinary team of expert scholars and on new research, this is the first academic text to fully theorise the events that made global headlines in 2008.
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EXORCISING DEMONS
DEMONS
On 11 May 2008, residents of Alexandra Township near Johannesburg turned violently on their neighbours, launching a string of attacks that, two weeks later, left 60 dead, dozens raped and over a hundred thousand displaced. Most of those killed were from beyond South Africa’s borders, but at least a third were citizens who, for reasons of ethnicity or political affiliation, failed to protect their space in the country’s urban core. Although not the most severe political violence in South Africa’s turbulent past, the 2008 attacks reflect an important moment in the country’s post-apartheid, post-authoritarian existence: a moment when the government’s legitimacy and the post-apartheid order were called into question. This xenophobic violence made evident cracks in the cohesion of law and society while helping to redefine both.
EXORCISING
This book is critical of the policies, practices and politics of containment that continue to frame belonging in post-apartheid South Africa in an era of flexible mobility. The dominant logic of ever diminishing circles of inclusion informed by hierarchies of humanity within and between states is productive of the sort of narrow articulation of belonging that easily results in the rationalisation of difference, demonisation, xenophobia and violence such as that of May 2008 – the key event that ties together this richly crafted, well documented and empirically grounded collection of essays.
EDITED BY LOREN B. LANDAU
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Permanent Missions to the United Nations 2012
Dag Hammarskjöld: Instrument, Catalyst, Inspirer Hammarskjöld
Instrument, Catalyst, Inspirer
This publication, often referred to as the "Blue Book," lists the names, addresses, emails, website URLs and phone numbers of all diplomatic representatives to the United Nations headquarters in New York City. This includes UN Member States maintaining permanent missions in the City; Non-member Observer States and entities; intergovernmental organizations; other entities; specialized agencies maintaining liaison offices at headquarters, as well as members of the principal organs of the United Nations and members of other standing organs of the UN. This publication is written in conjunction with the United Nations Protocol and Liaison Service at headquarters.
This book compiles selected speeches by former Secretary-General Dag Hammarksjöld that focus on the role of the United Nations, the place of the Secretary-General and the nature of the international civil servant. It is issued in commemoration of 50 years since the tragic death in a plane crash of SecretaryGeneral Dag Hammarskjöld in September 1961.
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n instrument, a catalyst, perhaps an inspirer
On 11 May 2008, residents of Alexandra Township turned violently on their neighbours, launching a string of attacks that, two weeks later, left 60 dead, dozens raped and over a hundred thousand displaced. This book situates recent anti-outsider violence within an extended history of South African statecraft that both produced the conditions for the attacks and has been reshaped by it. It is the first academic text to fully theorise the events that made global headlines in 2008. Through its subtle, empirical and theoretically informed analysis, the book reshapes discussion of xenophobia and violence in South Africa while injecting local debates into global considerations of the meaning of citizenship and the post-colonial state.
XENOPHOBIA, VIOLENCE AND STATECRAFT IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA
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following this line of personal policy — takes but a
Exorcising the Demons Within: Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa
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ole of the United Nations, the place of the Secretary-
— listen, analyze and learn to understand fully the
This publication draws on experiences from post-conflict environments in different parts of the world. A diverse group of researchers and scholar-practitioners working in academia, non-governmental and international organizations, examine the proactive roles of girls and boys in promoting security for themselves and their families. This publication focuses on children's disproportionate suffering and their specific vulnerabilities during and after a war. It also looks into the international legal frameworks created to protect and empower children and youth in post-conflict environments, and gives examples of initiatives to help young people escape the traps of victimhood and voicelessness. As the young post-war generation will become the next leaders, parents and teachers, ensuring children and youth’s active role in post-conflict peacebuilding today could be among the most effective means of building sustainable peace tomorrow.
A new publication designed for teenagers, Action for Disarmament: 10 Things You Can Do" speaks to young people by encouraging them to engage in an active and thoughtful way in this important issue for all of humankind. It is full of practical ideas including starting a discussion group, hosting a film screening, or creating an event where students and their friends can become informed, express their opinions and reach out to others on this important subject. It provides a vision to help alleviate violence through awareness raising and taking action. This publication aims to help students become agents for positive social change and a better world for all.
brary. This commemorative book of selected speeches
k and the interests at stake, so that he will be able
Gender-based Explosions: The Nexus between Muslim Masculinities, Jihadist Islamism and Terrorism
Escaping Victimhood: Children, Youth and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Albrecht Schnabel & Anara Tabyshalieva
nature of the international civil servant.
ere in order to assist, so to say from the inside,
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Action for Disarmament: 10 Things You Can Do
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national public servant takes his place. The public
This guide is designed for students in intermediary and secondary schools. It explains the UN Charter and the work of the United Nations, its structure and its family of specialized organizations. It illustrates with photos and stories from the field what the UN does for international peace and security, economic and social development, human rights, and humanitarian action. It also contains definitions of keywords and elements of international law. Each chapter starts with a list of facts and statistics and ends with a series of trivia questions for a young audience. This publication is also designed to be used as a teacher's resource.
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ant place in the history of the United Nations Library.
official capacity the private man should disappear
The United Nations at a Glance
Signed on 26 June 1945, the Charter of the United Nations is the Organization’s constitutive instrument, setting out the rights and obligations of Member States, and establishing its principal organs and procedures. An international treaty, the Charter codifies basic tenets of international relations — from the sovereign equality of States to prohibition of the use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations. The UN officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, with the ratification of the Charter by its first signatories. Since then, the UN has continued to grow in remaining true to this pledge — one all the more relevant in the face of the tremendous global transformations that, in the 21st century, are confronting humankind.
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ation of 50 years since the death of Dag Hammarskjöld
ake the decisions which frame history. He should
Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice
UN I TE D N ATI O N S / I N TE R N AT I O N A L P E AC E A N D S E C U R I T Y
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Dignity and Justice for All of Us
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