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Beyond Violence

Conflict Resolution Process in Northern Ireland

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: November 2002 )

After almost thirty years of bloody conflict, the opposing parties in Northern Ireland eventually signed an agreement about how to share power, thus bringing to an end the conflict that had claimed...

After almost thirty years of bloody conflict, the opposing parties in Northern Ireland eventually signed an agreement about how to share power, thus bringing to an end the conflict that had claimed...


Global Financial Turmoil and Reform

A United Nations Perspective

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: July 1999 )

As Asia's financial and economic crisis which started in 1997, deepened and spread around the world, United Nations economists on five continents shared notes to understand the upheaval and suggest...

As Asia's financial and economic crisis which started in 1997, deepened and spread around the world, United Nations economists on five continents shared notes to understand the upheaval and suggest...


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Inter-linkages

The Kyoto Protocol and the International Trade and Investment Regimes

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: June 2001 )

In 1997, delegates to the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed by consensus to adopt the Kyoto Protocol under which...

In 1997, delegates to the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed by consensus to adopt the Kyoto Protocol under which...


Do Environmental Imperatives Present Novel Problems and Opportunities for the International Transfer...

Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: November 1995 )

This publication explores the impact of recent changes in the world economy on progress in the transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies in the post-UNCED setting and endeavours...

This publication explores the impact of recent changes in the world economy on progress in the transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies in the post-UNCED setting and endeavours...


Science and Technology in the New Global Environment

Implications for Developing Countries

Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: August 1996 )

A new publication in this vital and timely series. It deals concisely with the implications of technological and regulatory trends for the developing world, explicitly setting forth a number of main...

A new publication in this vital and timely series. It deals concisely with the implications of technological and regulatory trends for the developing world, explicitly setting forth a number of main...


New Technologies and Technological Capability-Building at the Enterprise Level

Some Policy Implications

Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: August 1996 )

An examination of the opportunities created in the context of a changing global environment. By analyzing the specific features of the process of TCB in new technologies, policy implications and...

An examination of the opportunities created in the context of a changing global environment. By analyzing the specific features of the process of TCB in new technologies, policy implications and...


Promoting the Transfer and Use of Environmentally Sound Technology

A Review of Policies

Series: Science and Technology Issues
( Print: March 1997 )

The spectrum of the debate on environmentally sound technologies is as lively as the broader debate on environment and development. Amidst the spectrum is the realism that a world where three fourths...

The spectrum of the debate on environmentally sound technologies is as lively as the broader debate on environment and development. Amidst the spectrum is the realism that a world where three fourths...


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Financing for Development

Proposals from Business and Civil Society

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: January 2002 )

In Financing for Development, twenty-one authors, including business executives and civil-society activists from developing and developed countries, address the question of how to boost the financing...

In Financing for Development, twenty-one authors, including business executives and civil-society activists from developing and developed countries, address the question of how to boost the financing...