Loading...
UNRISD Annual report [1998-1999]
UNRISD
UNRISD
Author(s)
Author(s) (Additional)
Illustrator(s)
Producer(s)
Contributor(s)
Contributor(s) (Other)
Editor(s)
Advisor(s)
Contact(s)
Data Collector(s)
Keywords
Collections
Files
Loading...
ar99.pdf
Adobe PDF, 313.59 KB
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Online Access
Abstract
"If there was one overriding message to emerge from the consultation, it was that UNRISD must use its autonomy and global mandate to provide an opportunity for new thinking. Participants agreed that there is a need for a space, at the international level, in which alternatives to the neoliberal paradigm can be proposed and debated in an open environment by people of different disciplinary backgrounds and interests whose ideas are not sufficiently reflected in the current development discourse. In the coming years UNRISD will be looking for ways in which to do this through its new research agenda. The research agenda that has emerged from the process of consultation identifies six overarching concerns in all UNRISD work: poverty eradication, democratization, human rights, gender equity, environmental sustainability and globalization. New programmes and areas of research have been designed in light of these concerns. In July 1999, the Institute.s Board approved the following five programmes within which UNRISD will conduct its work: Social Policy and Development; Democracy and Human Rights; Identities, Conflict and Cohesion; Civil Society and Social Movements; and Technology and Society. UNRISD 2000+, our vision for the Institute, will be published in early 2000. As I mentioned, UNRISD has also continued to support the follow-up activities of the Social Summit. The Institute has committed a considerable amount of its resources to the preparation of a report and other publications for Geneva 2000: The Next Step in Social Development. Thus far, UNRISD has commissioned nearly 50 studies from researchers in 30 countries as background material for a publication provisionally titled Taking Global Responsibility for Social Development. The report will focus on new initiatives taken by the international community to create an enabling environment for social development."(pg 2)
Note(s)
Topic
Type
Preprint
Date
1998-07
Identifier
ISBN
DOI
Copyright/License
With permission of the license/copyright holder