REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OFFICIAL RECORDS: THIRTY-NINTH SESSION SUPPLEMENT No. 31 (A/39/31)
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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OFFICIAL RECORDS: THIRTY-NINTH SESSION SUPPLEMENT No. 31 (A/39/31)
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I. GENERAL OVERVIEW • g •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1 - 8 1
II. COUNCIL SESSIONS IN 1983-1984, OFFICERS, COMMITTEES, NEW MEMBERS AND COUNCIL COLLOQUIA ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 9 - 15 3
III. THE UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME (JULY 1983-JUNE 1984) •••••••••••• 16 - 87 5
AG Theme 1: Peace, security, conflict resolution and global transformation •••.••••••••••••••••.•••••••••••• 18 - 23 5
Programme area on peace and conflict resolution •• 19 - 23 5
B. Theme II: The global economy ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 24 6
Programme area on the global economy ••••••••••••• 24 6
C. 'l'heme III: Hunger, poverty, resources and the
environment •••••••••••••••••••• G ••••••••• O •••••••••••• 25 - 56 7
Programme area on energy systems and policy •••••• 26 - 33 7
Programme area on resource policy and management • 34 - 44 8
Programme area on the food-energy nexus •••••••••• 45 - 49 10
Pr.ogramme area on food, nutrition, biotechnology ~ and poverty Il ••••••••••• 50 - 56 Il
D. Theme IV: Human and social development and the coexistence of peoples, cultures and social systems 57 - 76 14
Programme area on human and social development 57 - 65 14
Programme area on regional perspectives •••••••••• 66 - 76 17
E. 'l'heme V: Science and technology and their social and
ethical implications .•••••••• s •••••••••• CI •• O •••••••••• 77 - 87 19
Programme area on science, technology and the information society •••••••.••••••.••••••••••••••• 78 - 87 19
IV. MANAGING THF. UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 88 - 105 23
A. Deve10pment Studies Division •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 89 23
B. Regional and Global Studies Division ••••••••••••••.••• 90 - 91 23
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C. Global Learning Division ..•••.••..••.•••.••.•..•...•.. 92 96 23
D. Training • •••••••••• " ...... -••••••••••••• 11 ••••••••••••••• 97 99 24 l E. Planning and evaluation ..: . 100 101 25
F. Staffing t>.,zI ••••••••• a •••• fJ •• "" ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 102 - 104 25 3 G. Collaboration with international, educational and 5 scientific organizations •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 105 26
v. INSTITUTIONAL PLANNING AND FUND-RAISING Il Il Il Il Il Il Il Il Il Il Il Il Il Il • Il Il Il Il 106 113 28 5 Institutional development ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 106 - 111 28 5
B. Fund-raising O ••••• Gl •••••••••••••••• 112 28
C. Permanent headquarters of the united Nations
University .a ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• IID •••••• 113 29
ANNEXES
1. Membership of the Council of the United Nations University and the Council Committees .••••••••••••• oo.g •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 30
II. project and institutional co-ordinators and staff members of the University .•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.• "...... 34
III. Major publications, July 1983-June 1984 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 38
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: • GENERAL OVERVIEW
1. During the period from July 1983 to June 1984 the united Nations University 23 moved into the third year of work under its medium-term perspective (1982-1987), adopted by the Council of the University at its eighteenth session in 24 November 1981. In this time, the University programme had, for the first time, ongoing projects under aIl five themes and nine programme areas of the medium-term 25 perspective. This represented 35 projects and sorne 50 subprojects in operation. The major development for the year was the establishment of the World Institute for 25 Development Economics Research (WIDER) at Helsinki. with the operation of WIDER, the first of the University's own research and traini.ng centres, the moves to develop a network of such centres and broaden the University's institutional links 26 were weIl under ways
28 2. The University's new planning process, which was put into place in 1982-1983, was further broadened during the annual planning meeting in April 1984 with the 28 inclusion of programme directors, project co-ordinators, consultants and a former 28 and a present Fellow. The University also welcomed its first Visiting Scholar (Dr. Kenneth Boulding) in January 1984. Training underwent a major change, with the responsibility for it being assigned to the Global Learning Division. 29 3. The University continued to expand its involvement in activities linked with matters of international concerne
4. Sorne examples of activities co-sponsored by the University are: 30 International Conference on the Long-term World-wide Biological Consequences of Nuclear War (late 1983) 34 A session of the North-South Round-table of the Society for International Development (February 1984) 38 The fourth annual lecture in the Glob~l Lecture Series on the theme "Peace development" (March 1984)
5. Examples of activities sponsored by the University are:
Symposium on Science and Praxis of Complexity (May 1984)
Symposium on Conditions Essential for Maintaining Outer Space for Peaceful i Purposes (March 1984) l, i-· f Seminar on Peace, Science and Technology (April 1984) t 6. Examples of activities in which the University participated are:
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Joint meeting of the Independent Commission on International Development ' .····.·J·· Issues (Brandt Commission) and the Independent Commission on Disarmament and tPo: Security Issues (Palme Commission) (January 1984) ,.~: Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues (May 1984) 1 l, -1- ,1 '1 '1~ 7. The University's associatedinstitutions at present number 37, and it has more than 100 research and training units carrying out its work in more than 60 countries. The number of Fe110ws now in training is approximate1y 68, and about f 400 have completed training as of l June 1984. The University published over 40 scholarly titles during this year. .~~ as 1 8. As of May 1984, the total pledges to the Endowment Fund and Operating Fund was
~, $US 177,810,370, of which $129,822,238 had been received. During the year under 'term review, 12 Governments pledged and/or contributed $34,094,514, of which $30 million ln. was intended for WIDER. For the 12-month period ending 31 December 1983, :e for expenditures amounted to $15.9 million. The planned expenditures for 1984 was set 1ER, at $17.3 million.
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1 --'.- has more II. COUNCIL SESSIONS IN 1983-1984, OFFICERS, COMMITTEES, NEW MEMBERS, AND COUNCIL COLLOQUIA md about 'er 9. The Council of the United Nations University met twice during the year 1983/84. The twenty-second seSSlon was held in Tokyo from 5 to 9 December 1983, Fund was and the twenty-third session was held at Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain under and Northern Ireland from 1 to 6 July 1984. At its twenty-second session the 1 million Council approved the University's first biennial Programme and Budget for 1984-1985. This showed the consolidation of activities from 12 sub-programmes in was set 1982 to 9 programme areas in 1983. At this session the Council also accepted the offer of the Government of Finland to host the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), the University's first research and training centre.
, 1 r ~ 11. The Council, at its twenty-third session, designated the following six new f: i associated institutions of the University: l,,. > 1·, Institute of Nutrition and Food Science of the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)," t
University of Guelph (Canada) r! l' Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
Institute for world Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hung~ry)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Republic of Kor~a)
12. At its twenty-second session, the Coun~il elected the following Council members to serve as Chairman and Vi~e-Chairman of the Council for 1984:
Chairman: Sir John Kl~ndrew
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1 Vice-Chairman: Dr. Daniel A. Bekoe (resigned as of April 1984) Dr. Satish Chandra Dr. Mercedes Concepci6n Dr. Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo 16. As Professor Victor Urquidi perspec
13. At the same session the Council made the Ad Hoc Committee on Statutes and (a) Rules a standing Committee on Statutes, Rules and Guidelines, and established a coheren standing Committee on the Report of the Council. ( b) 14. The Council, at its twenty-third session, welcomed two new members of the Univers' Council, Dr. Joszef Bognar and Dr. Yevgeniy M. Primakov, who were appointed jointly by the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Director-General of the (c) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in institu accordance with article IV, l, of the charter of the United Nations University. (For full Council membership and Council committee listings, see annex 10) (d)
15. The third colloquium of the Council, intended to allow Council members to be 17. The involved in greater depth in the substance of the University's work, was held broadeni during the twenty-second session on the subject of world economy. There were three the five invited speakers: Professor Shinichi Ichimura, Dr. Gustav Papanek and research Professor Victor Urquidi. Dr. Reimut Jochimsen served as moderator of the institu colloquium.
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16. As adopted by the Council at its eighteenth session, the medium-term 21 perspective has the following principal aims: regi Head Asse (a) To broaden the scope of the University's programme and to make it more proc coherent, responsive, and above aIl, multi-dimensional in character; Afri co-s (b) To strengthen the intellectual and administrative capacity of the University centre in Tokyo;
(c) To make the University a more decentralized and multi-centred global networks~ institution through development of institutional 22. demi (d) To increase the financial resources. meas Divi 17. The University programme concentrated, during the year under review, on Nati broadening the scope of its intellectual and policy concerns. Work was done under with the five themes and nine programme areas. This report covers ongoing and beginning for research, training and publications activities. (A list of project and Orga institutional co-ordinators and University staff is given in annex II.) took bodi (Can A. Theme 1. Peace, security, conflict resolution and global Soci transformation stat Peac 18. This complex theme represents an area of major concern to the United Nations co-o and its specializea agencies. The University's approach is intended to help in the recognition and better understanding of problems emerging on the regional, national them and even local level, which, increasingly, are gaining global significance and importance, in order to contribute to the prevention, reduction and settlement of conflicts.
Programme area on peace and conflict resolution 23. pers 19. The three projects in this programme area examine the sources of growing deve obje insecurity and vulnerability in communities, nations and the international system, Mala with emphasis on conflicts between established power structures and groups seeking Inte to make such structures more just and humane. at t the Peace and Global Transformation
20. The aims of this major project, under the responsibility of the Regional and Global Studies Division, are to identify trends that are moving the world toward conflicts and war and away from desirable transformation, and to indicate, the most viable modes of efficacious intervention. Studies focused on eight regions are now Pro being conducted on thé interlinkages among six major dimensions of current global problems: (a) militarization; (b) conflicts over natural resources; (c) role of the State; (d) global economic crisis; (e) human rights and cultural survival; and (f) role of science and technology. An outline and first draft of a composite 24. monograph was completed, with papers that describe and analyse the global incl problematique of peace and global transformation, and suggest points of its intervention for achieving a peaceful and transformational world. A number of made
-5- - publications are expected to emerge from regional activities during the rernaining quar months of 1984. of t at H 21. The Regional and Global Studies Division is also conducting studies on WIDE regional peace and security for a final report to be presented at United Nations will Headquarters, in connection with the International Year of Peace which the General will Assembly, in its resolution 37/16 of 16 November 1982, established would be proclaimed for 1986. Four regional meetings are planned in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, with the first scheduled for August 1984 in Costa Rica, co-sponsored by the University for Peace. 25. Study on the Conditions Essential for Maintaining Outer Space for Peaceful quaI' Purposes carr 22. This project, under the Global Learning Division, examines mainly questions of demilitarization of outer space, as weIl as the development of proposaIs for legal measures designed to achieve this. Discussions with the Outer Space Affairs Division of the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs of the united Nations Secretariat and with the International Institute of Space Law, as weIl as with individual experts, led to a symposium on how to deal with possible measures for strengthening international law to safeguard outer space for peaceful uses. Organized jointly with the Carnegie Foundation and the Peace Palace, the symposium took place at The Hague, in March 1984, with participants from United Nations bodies, academic institutions and countries particularly concerned with the issues (Canada, China, Egypt, France, India, Indonesia, Sweden, the Union of Soviet 27. Socialist Republics, the United States of America and others). A symposium four statement was communicated to the Legal Sub-Committee of the Committee on the meeti Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and has been published in various journals. In Montr co-operation with the Outer Space Affairs Division, analytical papers and a Congr thematic account of discussions will be published in 1984.
Local Security: Comparative Studies on Management Issues on Ordinary Crime Prevention and Control 28. and l 23. Under the Development Studies Division, this project addresses the problem of the r personal security in streets and neighbourhoods, which is often of major concern in Brazi developing countries, but one that development plans rarely include among their Commu objectives. Case studies are being conducted in colombia, Costa Rica, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Poland and Thailand by researchers who attended the International Experts Meeting on Crime Trends and Crime Prevention Strategies, held at the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and 29. the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), in Tokyo in May 1984. Centr the 11 develc B. Theme II. The global economy exist: and d Programme area on the global economy role Augus World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) techn Singa 24. Steps were taken to proceed with setting up WIDER at Helsinki, Finland, the b including the selection of a director, appointment of the Board and development of docum its programme of activities. Eight appointments to the lO-member Board had been compl made as of July 1984 and a director was scheduled to be selected in the last
-6- -.c. quarter of 1984. A liaison office, headed by Mr. R. A. Fleming, formerly Director of the Liaison Office of the United Nations University in New York, was established 3 at Helsinki to assist in this process. Temporary quarters were also offered for l WIDER by the Government of Finland. It is anticipated that initial staff for WIDER c will be identified or appointed by the end of 1984 and that programme activities t will begin in 1985. (Background details on WIDER are provided in section V.) J t 5 C. Theme III. Hunger, poverty, resources and the environment
25. This theme deals with sorne of the most urgent concerns for improving the quality of life for a large segment of the world's population. Work here is 3 carried out in four programme areas.
Programme area on energy systems and policy
26. Addressing the need for affordable, appropriate sources of energy, this programme area aims at d~veloping the concept and methodology of integrated energy systems and providing needed information for and training to third world energy planners and technicians. The network includes researcheLs and institutions in Algerla, Canada, India, Nigeria, and the United Republic of Tanzania.
Integrated Rural Energy Systems Association (INRESA)
27. During the year, INRESA expanded to 12 projects throughout the third world; 3 four issues of the quarterly INRESA newsletter were published. The first official meeting was heId at Cairo in March 1984 and a second is planned for July 1985 in Montreal, Canada, immediately preceding the International Solar Energy Society Congress.
Energy Planning and Management
28. The original project group of four institutions in Argentina, Brazil, France and India has been expanded to include the University of Chile f with support from P the International Development Research Centre of Canada. Project leaders met in Brazil, in April 1984. in conjunction with the Commission of the European 3 Communities programme meeting. cc er Energy Research and Technology Assessment
29. Following an agreement concluded with the International Development Research Centre in June 1983 to jointly pursue energy research, the University established the 10-member Energy Research Group of energy analysts dllU policy-makers from developing countries and appointed a Group co-ordinator. The Group will survey the existing and potential capacity of developing countries to conduct energy research and development, and utilize the results. It is expected to play an innovative role in energy policy formulation. The first meeting of the Group in Canada, in August 1983, commissioned 120 papers to review the field of energy research and technology which would be completed by the middle of 1984. The second meeting, at Singapore in April 1984, decided that the mernbers would referee the papers, and on the basis of this and their own experience and knowledge generate a synthesis document to reflect the position of the Group. The synthesis document should be completed by the middle of 1985.
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Abstracts of Selected Solar Energy Technology (ASSET)
30. During the year, the ASSET network expanded to more than 1,100 members from 115 developing countries. Nine issues ~f ASSET and an index were published. The clearinghouse activity to disseminate unpublished documents on energy produced in the third world continued with UNESCO support. An agreement was concluded in June 1984 with the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain for a Spanish translation of ASSET and for increasing mat~rial from Spain and other Spanish-language nations for input into the ASSET data base.
Dissemination of Biogas Technology to Rural Areas
31. This project, utilizing video-taping of biogas technology in a Chinese 3 commune, will look at efforts to use videotape as a medium for providing information to rural communities on subjects related to their living conditions. P e lt will develop a case study on ~he extension of biogas utilization in rural e cornrnunities in Guyana on a significant scale. The presentation and implementation a phases of the project are planned, starting from August 1984. The project is c expected to produce a publication describing its results. i C Training on Energy Systems and Policy i c 32. As of December 1983, 14 Fellows and 1 Special Fellow had completed training in 1983 and 10 Fellows were in training.
33. Publications during the year under review 3 r Energy and Agriculture: Their lnteracting Futures, M. Lévy and i J. L. Robinson, eds. (co-published with Harwood Academie Publishers, h Switzerland) 3 Report of the First Meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee on Geothermal r Energy Training, l. B. Fridleifsson, ed. E Programme area on resource policy and management 3 h~ 34. Using "resource systems" as the conceptual basis, this programme area is cc conducting research, in five projects, on resource-use problems in selected A environments to develop general concepts about such problems and to formulate ir management policies and guidelines. FE
Highland-Lowland Interactive Systems 4 f 35. This project aims to improve understanding of the physical, social, and 1 economic linkages between resources use in highland regions and the effects of this use on the highlands and on the adjacent lowlands. Subprojects are currently being 4 carried out or developed in Nepal and Ethiopia. c Nepal: Mountain Hazards Mapping. A Kathmandu-Kakani area base map and 4 mountain hazards maps have been completed for land use planning, slide area prediction, and transportation development. A workshop was held at Kathmandu in OCtober 1983 to evaluate project output and present maps and research reports to Nepalese agencies, bilateral aid agencies and specialists. Final field work for the mapping of the Khumbu region is now in progresse
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':J j Himalaya-Ganges Resource Use Conflict Study. Continuing past work, this study examines Himalaya-Ganges land use problems in the context of peace and conflict resolution.
Ethiopian Soil Conservation Research. This subproject in the Ethiopian highlands is being carried out in association with the University of Bern, funded by the Swiss Directorate of Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Aid. A second progress report was issued in July 1983 and a new three-year phase is scheduled to begin.
Agroforestry Systems
36. This project investigates traditional agroforestry systems as a means of providing food, fodder and fuel and, as appropriate, land use practice which is ecologically sustainable and can help in the restoration of degraded soils, especially in the humid tropics. Research at the Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre in Costa Rica on systems in the La Suiza study area was completed and new work started on guava/pasture and pine/pasture productivity. An intensive short course on agroforestry research methodologies was conducted in Colombia and regular training of Fellows continued. The possibility of including institutions in Ghana, the Philippines and Indonesia in the network is now being considered.
Climatic, Biotic and Human Interactions in the Humid Tropics
37. The concern of this project is measuring and evaluating patterns of land and resource use and their interaction with the atmosphere, in order to understand the interaction between components of the tropical forest system and the effects of human activity upon it.
38. One activity is a series of conferences on selected areas to be convened regularly. The first will be held in February 1984 at the Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Amazonia.
39. Another activity will study the effects of deforestation and landuse on sail, hydrology, microclimate and production in the humid tropics near Benin, Nigeria, in co-operation with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture in Nigeria. A testing site for various advanced landuse systems has been selected~ a biological inventory has been initiated, and the selection of United Nations University Fellows has begun.
40. A third activity will examine the impact of climatic variations and change on food production in the Ecuadorian Andes, in co-operation with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis at Laxenburg, Austria.
41. The fourth involves the development of a much needed simple, law-cost gas chrornatograph for soil gas analysis in the field.
j, 42. Three other activities are also being considered. .',
Resou:cç Use of Frontiers and Pioneer $ettlements. Increasing use of land colonization schemes to expand crop and livestock production in the humid tropics often results in exploitaticn of "new", sometimes environmentally marginal, land and timber resources. This subproject will produce fi
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Coastal Resources: Mangrove Research. This subproject is focused on traditional uses of mangrove ecosystems and the socio-economic effects of changes in them. Research is being done in Thailand, Sri Lanka and the United Republic of Tanzania. Work has been completed in Thailand and the United Republic of Tanzania. A network meeting will be held in late 1984 to present and exchange research results.
Training on Resource Policy and Management
43. As of December 1983, 12 Fellows and 1 Special Fellow had completed training in 1983 and 3 Fellows were in training.
44. Publications during the year under review
Agroforestrie en Afrique tropicale humide (French version of Agroforestry in the African Humid Tropics, L. H. MacDonald, ed., in Resource Systems Theory and Methodology series).
"Land resources of the People's Republic of China", K. Ruddle and Wu Chuanjun, eds.
Urban Geomorphology in Drylands, by R. U. Cooke, D. Brunsden, J. C. Doornkamp, and D. K. C. Jones (co-published with Oxford University press).
"Transforming natural resources for human development: a resource systems framework for development policy", K. Ruddle and D. A. Rondinelli, eds. (a technical series report).
Long-Distance Water Transfer: A Chinese Case Study and International Experiences, A. K. Biswas, Zuo D., J. E. Nickum and Liu C., eds. (Tycooly International Publishing Limited, Ireland).
Mountain Research and Development, vols. 3 and 4 (journal).
Programme area on the food-energy nexus
45. This programme area studies the linkages between food and energy and their implications for policy options and integrated development planning.
Policies and Strategies in Food-Energy Interactions
46. The activities were organized around five themes: (a) energy profile of the food system; (b) integrated food-energy schemes; (c) food, energy and daily chores i 1 of women; (d) food and energy self-reliance in the urban context, and (f) global food-energy modeling.
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47. Based on exploratory activities, interregional training seminars for planners, project leaders and policy-makers are being initiated, in collaboration with the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA), the East-West Centre (Hawaii, United States of America), Environment and Development Action in the Third World (ENDA) and the International Cooperative University (France). Plans calI for two seminars per year. The teaching materials for the seminars will form the core of the programme area's publication activities.
48. The project's most important activity in 1983 was a two-month study and conference tour (September-October 1983) by four United Nations University Special Fellows from Brazil. They visited research centres in Senegal, France, India and China involved in the field of food and energy. Very positive results have come out of this intensive, short-term training, emphasizing its advantage for high-level specialists.
Biotechnology for Food-Energy Systems
Integrated Development and Utilization of Traditional and Emerging Food Technologies with Special Attention to Fermented Food. The main objective of this subproject is to develop the traditional technologies used in the conservation of nearly 80 per cent of the food in developing countries. Many of these technologies must be upgraded with scientific techniques and by integrating them with new technologies. The initial activities got under way with a workshop organized by the University in July 1983 in co-operation with two of its associated institutions, to discuss the state of the art and identify priority areas.
49. In the year under review, the ACC Task Force on Science and Technology for Development appointed the United Nations University as a joint lead agency with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for action in the area of traditional food technologies.
Programme area on food, nutrition, biotechnology and poverty
50. Much of the work in this programme area stems from earlier University work on food and nutrition. Current activities are policy oriented and are concerned with the social and economic effects of inadequate nutrition and the practical effects of existing health-care programme and agricultural policies on nutrition. Another major concentration is biotechnology, te ensure that the developing world will benefit from the major advances in this field. Its main thrusts are: nitrogen fixation for improving crop yield, establishment of a United Nations University biotechnology institute, and the legal, ethical and social implications of new advances.
Food, Nutrition and Poverty
Assessment of Food and Agricultural Policies and Their Impact on Nutrition and Poverty. Twelve studies (10 with funds supplied by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and 2 withUniversity funds) are being conducted to provide policy-makers with working criteria for evaluating the impact of agricultural production and food supply policies on nutrition and health in different national contexts.
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.;Àwork, including preliminary results of two major projects in Egypt and ~Indonesia reported at the IV Asian Congress in Bangkok in November 1983, two . 1University-supported research projects are being undertaken in Chile and !Thailand. A workshop is planned for autumn 1984, with support expected from jthe Sub-Committee on Nutrition, to bring together the results for publication iin monograph forme Also planned are new projects in China to be supported ijointly with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Consultancy iassistance will be made available to selected countries considering iron jfortification programmes for the prevention of iron deficiency. 1 ·!Assessment of the Nutritional Component of primary Health Care (NPHC). The 1subproject aims to test and evaluate the efficacy of improvement of nutrition ias a component of primary health care in developing countries. With the !support of UNICEF, studies have been undertaken in Bangladesh, Chile, ~colombia,l Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines Jand the Republic of Korea. 1\ "Field guide for the study of health-seeking Jbehaviour at the household Leve I " will be published in the University's Food land Nutrition Bulletin in 1984 and will also be distributed as a reprint-.--- 1 The University is also participating with the Government of Colombia and !Javeriana University in the preparation of 12 education programmes for j television on essential elements of NPHC. Aseries of radio programmes i8 -.1 also being prepared,A workshop, "Effective communication: nutrition in j primary health care", organized by the Institute of Nutrition, Mahidoe i University, and supported by the United Nations University, UNESCO and UNICEF, J was held in September 1983 at Bangkok. The report will be ready for i publication in 1984. vi '1 Social and Economic Consequences of Chronic Dietary Energy Deficiency. '1 Subprojects that begin in 1982 in Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the fi Philippines continued. They confirmed that low activity levels accompany :1 chronically low food intakes and showed that acute caloric restriction leads j to decreased activity. They demonstrated, however, that the effects of 1increased food are more complex and need the longer-term studies now in j progress to shed further light on these important issues. Final reports will 1 be completed by mid-1985 for a meeting in autumn 1985 to evaluate, compare and 1 integrate research results.
<1 International Network of Food Data Systems (INFOODS). An International Ji Planning Conference met to discuss the International Food Data Systems '.--1 .J (INFOODS) project at Bellagio in February 1983 and to establish executive and :~ pol~cy committees, a~ well a~ regio~al groups in North ~erica, Ed~ropeh' b J. Medlterranean councr tes , Latln Amer Ica and South-East ASla. Fun lng as een
1j obtained from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the j National Institute of Health (United States), the Federal Drug Administration ..••~ (United States) and the United States Department of Agriculture. The ~I International Development Research Centre (Canada) will sponsor an Asia~ and a Latin American INFOODS conference in 1984. The National Research Councll of '1 :::~~ W~~~4 ~elP finance an INFOODS policy commi ttee meeting in Spain in
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51. Two institutions joined the programme area network as associated institutions: Institute of Agricultural Chemistry and Food Technology, Valencia, Spain, and NINI, a national consortium organized by the Department of Human Nutrition of the Agricultural University, Wageningen, the Netherlands. A workshop, "Strengthening developing country institutions concerned with food and nutrition", was held at Rome in March 1984. The workshop report was then presented to the meeting of the Sub-Committee on Nutrition, Administrative Committee on Co-ordination (SCN-ACC) for plenary discussion and will be published in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin in late 1984.
Training in Food, Nutrition and Poverty
52. As of December 1983, a total of 31 Fellows and two Special Fellows completed training in 1983 and 20 Fellows were in training.
53. Publications during the year under review
Food and Nutrition Bulletin (FNB), vol. 5, Nos. 1-4.
Diarrhea and Malnutrition: Interactions, Mechanisms, and Interventions, L. C. Chen and N. S. Scrimshaw, eds. (co-published with Plenum Press, N.Y.).
Nutrition Policy Implementation: Issues and Experience, N. S. Scrimshaw and M. B. Wallerstein, eds. (co-published with Plenum Press, N.Y.).
"The use of organic residues in rural communities", C. A. Shacklady, ed., FNB, Supplement No. 7.
"Methods for the evaluation of the impact of food and nutrition programme", D. E. Sahn, R. Lockwood and N. S. Scrimshaw, eds., FNB, Supplement No. 8.
"Interfaces between agriculture, nutrition, and fooo science", K. T. Achaya, ed., FNB, Supplement No. 9.
"Protein-energy-requirement studies in developing countries: results of international research" W. M. Rand, R. Uauy, and N. S. Scrimshaw, eds., FNB, Supplement No. 10.
Biotechnology
54. The overall objective of this project is to strengthen basic research capabilities in biotechnology in the developing countries. Following substantive international consultations during the year, specific activities were selected.
Nitrogen Fixation in the Reot System of Rice. This subproject uses advanced techniques to develop the improved use of nitrogen fixed by bacteria in the rhizosphere of rice plants. In early 1984, an international network of scientists and laboratories was established and reference experiments agreed upon. The results will be discussed and compared at a meeting in 1986.
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Vaccines and Diagnostics to Combat Tropical Diseases (Brucellosis) in AnimaIs and Humans. This subproject focuses on the feasibility of using new techniques to develop vaccines against brucellosis, particularly in the Latin American region. During the year, potential co-operating institutions and a, scientists were identified. In the second part of 1984, a workshop will be organized to establish a network. Co-operation with other agencies is being hop, explored. ln" , Fermented Foods and Feed. Here the use of biotechnology to upgrade and to improve traditional technologiez is being studied. It will try to develop d South-South co-operation, particularly between South-East ~sia and sorne parts of Africa. Several interested institutes in South-East Asia and Africa have been identified and project proposaIs solicited. The activities are to be implemented under the programme area on the food-energy nexus. ed Legal, Social and Ethical Aspects of Biotechnology. To start the subproject a brainstorming was he Id during the year with policy-makers, scientists and users/consumers, in conjunction with the biological nitrogen fixation meeting in the Netherlands in August 1983. A summary was published as "Meeting of minds" in the Dev010pment Forum, and other articles are being published in the UNU Newsletter.
Communication and information ) . 55. One of the major handicaps faced by researchers in developing countries is nd lack of adequate and up-to-date information. To help narrow this gap, the University participated in an experimental computer conference on the bioconversion of lignocellulose (wood) for fuel, fodder, and food production in rural FNB, communities, which was conducted from May to December 1983. An evaluation of this project is now being carried out. The possibility of implementing the results to ',strengthen the scientific output of biotechnology research is now being explored.
1 ...~i î Training on Biotechnology { i a, 156. As of December 1983 one Fellow completed training and another Fellow was in '"~ .. 1 t r a rnmq , 1 t"\ ~, !J. Theme IV. Human and social development and the coexistence of J ,~ ~oples, cultures and social systems ~ Jîprogramme area on human and social development
! 57. This programme area is concerned with the search for a self-reliant approach re ~ to satisfying material and non-material human needs. It has six major projects 10perating more or less autonomously. l Socio-cultural Development ~ 58. A meeting of the core group is scheduled for July 1984, in Spain, to finalize !d ,~ project proposaLs , ') i f perceptions of Desirable Societies in Different Religious and Ethical i Systems. This subproject seeks to take stock of the possible contribution of
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major religions to the elaboration of desirable societies and life cycles in consonance with the specifie value orientation of different cultures and a t Ln ethical systems. During the year, an overview of the emerging role of d religion in the present process of social transformation was prepared. be Christianity and Islam were chosen to be the first subjects of study. The ing Christian perception of a desirable society was discussed in a basic paper at a meeting at Paris in November 1983. The Islamic perception of a desirable society was discussed in a basic paper at Bangkok in March 1984. A series of o essays based on the Bangkok meeting will be commissioneà for publication. p Studies on Buddhism and Hinduism are in preparation. arts The Emergence of New Social Thought e 59. This FLoject aims at contributing to the restructuring of the conceptual framework of social and political theory and philosophy in a rapidly changing ect a world. It will prepare sorne research reports to be published in three volumes: world crises cr world transformation? New social thought - the formative moulds ting and "New civilizational quest: projects and strategies. f n the Management of Development
60. Three subprojects under this project deal with the social and political determinants of ~ertain economic policies, sorne of which are constraints that hamper correct policy choice. s Social and Political Conditions for Effective National Planning. The rsion objective is to suggest new planning guidelines in economies that use market prices for resource allocation. A workshop was heId in Malaysia, in this February 1984, and case studies are under way in Colombia, Hungary, Kenya, to Malaysia, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. A case study for Brazil is being prepared by ed. the Latin-American Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES). The final project output wiLl be a book on development planning in centrally planned economies.
in Economic Development Models for Resource-Rich Countries. The objective is to consider politically viable policy options for economic management problems of resource-rich countries. During the year, a workshop was held in September 1983, at Alaska Pacific University, to discuss major issues for a series of country studies and to find ways to generalize the findings for broader usage. Studies are being conducted in Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, and Thailand.
The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy. The focus is on case studies of ach countries with relatively successful fiscal policies and those with high s deficits and inequitable tax structures to determine the political causes for performance differentials. The project will involve researchers in Colombla, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, and the Republic of Korea.
Comparative Studies of Social Transformation lize International Conference on the Meiji Restoration. This conference, in October 1983, was the first phase of this project and was attended by more than 30 scholars from China, India, Japan, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, n of Thailand, the United States, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. A
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Contemporary Households and Social Change
61. The focus of this project is the various impacts that social change in the development process has on change at the household level in developing countries. It has two subprojects.
Rousehold, Gender and Age. Field studies in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Sri Lanka are using two methodological approaches to examine changing relationships among members of households in a specific socio-economic A c structure. A field study will begin in an African country in late 1~84 and a Eth six-month training course on methodologies will be held at the University of Wisconsin and the Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro in 65. Amo the last quarter of 1984. A workshop is scheduled for the International Rights G Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) in the Inter-Am Dominican Republic in early 1985 to discuss preliminary research results. Universi co-opera Comparative Study of Womenls work and Family Strategies in South and Academy South-East Asia. This project examines how the development process affects womenls employment opportunities and decisions in the context of overall Programm fumily strategies for survival and upward mobility. Field studies will be done in India, beginning in 1984, and other countries in the South and 66. Thi South-East Asia region and comparative analysis made with already existing politica materials. regions. Africa, The Global Impact of Ruman Migration developm
62. The overall objective of this project is to study the human a~d socio-cultural impact of large-scale human migration to help formulate relevant labour and social policy recommendations. Research on Asian migrant workers to the Gulf countries 67. The started in early 1983, supported by a UNDP grant, in seven Asian countries States at (Bangladesh, India, pakistan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, in a posi and Thailand). Meetings were held at Bangkok (OCtober 1983) and New Delhi integrate (February 1984), supported by UNDP, and a follow-up workshop took place in the state-of-the~art Philippines, in May 1984, to discuss reports which are now being 68. Rese edited for publication. Financial assistance is expected from UNDP for ongoing cornpleted research. the State the peasa Ethnie Minorities and Ruman and Social Development The next , 63. The project which began in July 1983, is examlnlng the cultural and ethical 69. Publ complexities involved in national and regional development processes and the relationship between minority groups and the dominant national culture, Stee particularly with regard to policies affecting the survival of minority cultures.
64. Computerized classification and analysis of extensive docume~tary material is being carried out, and a computerized guide to the world's minority peoples is also being prepared. Ten reports have been prepared or are in preparation: 70. The
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65. Among the collaborating institutions are: El Colegio de México, the Minority Rights Group (London), the International Centre for Ethnie Studies (Sri Lanka), the Inter-America Institute of Human Rights (Costa Rica), the Australian National University and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences. Other possible co-operating institutions include the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 71. Programme area on regional perspectives
66. This programme area attempts to identify the dominant social, economie, and political trends that shape the course of development in eaeh of the wor~d's major regions. Of six projects, four deal with the regions comprising the Arab world, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and two examine the problems of technological 72. development and self-reliance from a regional perspective. fac on Nation-Building or Transnationalization in Africa pub] 196~ 67. The project's main objective is to answer the questions: Are the Afriean -doas States about to succeed in completing their nation-building process? Or are they in a position where it is impossible to do so and, therefore, are obliged to be integrated into the process of transnationalization of the world? 73. 68. Research for national and subregional case studies in the first phase was Car completed in December 1983. Two seminars were held in Senegal, in January 1984 on Fou the State, natural resources and industrialization in Africa, and on the State and pub the peasants in Africa. A total of 42 case studies were presented and discussed. and The next phase (1984-1985) will be devoted to producing synthesis reports. the stu 69. Publications now in press wil
Steel Industry in Africa by F. Yachir 74. Ame The Crisis of Agriculture in Africa by L. Gakou in wor ABian perspectives Lat 70. The project has three subregional networks under a general project framework.
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South Asian network (currently covering Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). The network is engaged in three activities: nation-building and regional co-operation and people's movements and experiments. It is producing 75. dossiers on its meetings and activities. soci plan South-East Asian network (currently covering Indonesia, Malaysia, thç Rese Philippines, Singapore and Thailand). Integrated research began on invo "Transnationali~ation, the State, and people's perspectives". Since Septernber 1983, network research teams have met regularly in their respective countries and have cornrnunicated mainly through a network bulletin. Preliminary reports from country teams are expected to be submitted to a 76. workshop at Jakarta in October 1984. Janua Ethio East Asian network (currently covering China, Japan and the Republic of on th Korea). This network will begin work with the establishment of Korean teams in te on "The State and nation-building" and "History and cultures". Preparations has b are under way for a regional conference on Asian perspectives on a new are u international economic order in the first half of 1985, in co-operation with expre the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Thail
Arab Alternatives Futures
71. Research has been completed in 3 of 12 research areas, one of which is on the unexplored effects of oil wealth. Two major studies are now being undertaken on socio-political and cultural attitudes: Islamic revival movements (co-sponsored by 77. the Organization of the Islamic Conference) and crises of the radical left techn movements. A final seminar will be held in Tunisia in October 1984 to discuss the knowle results of research. Work h under 72. Two studies are being carried out on the subject of art and literature as factors of unity and diversity: the first on literature and cinema, and the second Progra: on Arab architecture. An Arabic book, Images of the Arab Future was translated and published in English in 1983. The State and Capitalist Development in Iraq, 78. Wc 1968-1978 was published in 1984. Twelve issues of the Arab Alternative Futures deveIoj dossier have already been published. with h:
Latin American Perspectives
73. Research reports on social movements in Mexico, Central America, and the Më Caribbean were discussed at a regional seminar in Costa Rica, in Novernber 1983. st: Four workshops were held in Mexico. The reports are now being edited for of publication in co-operation with the Universidad Nacional Aut6noma de México (UNAM) (e and Siglo XXI. A regional meeting was organized at UNAM in February 1984 on the an theory of the State and power struggles in Latin America and related country case studies on the theories. The papers presented, supplemented by several others, A will be published. fo Ma 74. A bibliographical survey on studies on the perspectives and future of Latin (m America was completed. Research began in 1984 on social movements in South America in collaboration with the Latin American Social Science Council following similar Co work done in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean on emerging democracy in co Latin America and on the history of forecasting in Latin America. Mi Ju
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Technological Capacity and Perspective in the Third World
75. The project will examine main trends of technological change and its socio-economic and cultural impact on the third world in contributing to the planning of science and technology strategies necessary for future development. Research on Latin America will continue to the end of 1984. The first phase will involve leading research institutions in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela.
Self-reliance in Science and Technology for National Development
76. This project started with a workshop on science, technology and society, in January 1984, with participants from seven Asian countries, as weIl as from Brazil, Ethiopia and the United Kingdom. The workshop reviewed a research proposaI based on the findings of the Japanese Experience Project and on dialogues on experiences in technological development in several Asian countries. The final workshop report has been distributed to participants and interested institutions. Consultations are under way on the organization of country research teams. Interest has been expressed in China, India, Japan, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Thailand.
E. Theme V. Science and technology and their social and ethical implications
77. This broad theme is concerned with the implications of scientific and technological progress, in particular the presentation and distribution of knowledge emanating from it and the ethical questions new àevelopments will raise. Work here is intricately linked with the four other themes and the programme areas under them.
Programme area on science, technology and the information society
78. Work in this programme area concentrates mainly on the implications of current developments in communications, information and computer sciences. It also àeals with highly complex issues that cut across aIl of the themes and programme areas. c Information Technology and Society ë E Mastering of Microprocessor Technology. Activities have included: (a) a survey of existing and/or planned international programmes, (b) stock-taking of the most recent developments of new information technologies, and (c) missions to developing countries in Africa (in 1983) and Asia (in 1984), and planned visits to Latin America (in 1985).
A monitoring group of experts from industrialized and developing countries was formed and the first meeting of its core members was held in Tokyo in May 1984, following the International Microcomputer Applications Conference (microprocessor applications).
Collaboration with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, continued and included preparations for the Asian Regional College on Microprocessors: Technology and Applications, held in Sri Lanka, in June 1984. The Government of Italy has been approached to participate in
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funding University-related activities at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
Discussions have been held with Trinity College, Dublin, to establish a scholarship programme in microinformatics for young specialists from developing countries. The Government of Ireland has also expressed interest in providing funds for training and research in this area.
Information Use
Information Overload and Information Under-·use. The subproject will examine this apparent paradox by analysing the problematique in a comprehensive and systematic way. A core group of experts from Canada, India, Nigeria, Sweden, Yugoslavia, UNESCO and the united Nations University was set up in 8 January 1984. Research started in the spring of 1984 and sorne work is n expected to be finished by early 1985. Overall co-ordination will be provided 1 by the core group and the GAMMA Group (McGill University). 83 The New Information Society le fo 79. This project aims to provide a detailed examination of key issues of the In current communications/information revolution and of the advent of an Te "information-oriented society". It will carry out country and regional case In studies within the framework of international developments. le conceptual la approach and organization have been worked out in co-operation with the Development to Alternatives group at New Delhi. A state-of-the-art analysis is heing prepared as background for the country and regional studies.
From the Economies of Information to the Information Economy
80. This project concerns the need to develop indicators for measuring systematically the role of communications and information in economic development, the relative economic importance of different communication and information processes and products, and the cost of information within organizations and national economies as a whole. It will provide state-of-the-art reports and summaries of the most advanced resear=h and analysis in selected industrial countries. Analyses were completed in March 1984 by researchers in France, Japan and the United States. Another objective is to conduct similar analyses in selected developing ccuntries, first in Peru and Malaysia.
Emerging Issues and perspectives
81. This project will consider ways to shape new perspectives and approaches to the complex issues and phenomena confronting natlonal societies and the international community and to develop new intellectual tools for their understanding and management.
Global Commons and International Law. The annual joint colloquium, organized in co-operation with The Hague Academy of International Law, was held in 84. November 1983 on the future of international law in a pluricultural world. pro The proceedings are being edited for puhlication in the Annals of the of . Academy. A symposium on conditions essential for maintaining outer space for und peaceful uses was held in March 1984, it also dealt with a specifie aspect of qua Par
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The Management of Complexity. This subproject concentrates on how to understand and deal with complex natural and social systems and new levels of complexity brought about by interdependence of countries as weIl as of issues. A symposium was held at Montpellier, France, in May 1984 on the subject "Science and praxis of complexity" to assess current developments. Co-operation is also being established with interested organizations, such as the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis and the Club of Rome.
New Modes for Sharinq Knowledge and New Learning Materials
82. Activities in this project have mainly concerned pilot schemes for the use of new methods for the sharing and dissemination of knowledge at different social levels and on the development of learning materials.
83. Advice has been provided to Colombian authorities on the production of learning materials on nutrition and primary health care, mainly in video tape forme Work has continued on the establishment, in co-operation with the International Council on Scientific Unions and the Committee on Science and Technology for Development (ICSU/COSTED), of a training and research facility in India for activities in the subproject on transfer of scientific knowledge at the local level. Similarly, work has continued on the use of video as a development tool and the establishment of an international village video network.
Distance Learning Systems. The preparation of the first world-wide comprehensive inventory of open universities and similar institutions has continued; the computerized data base established in co-operation with the Open University (United Kingdom) has started to function.
Archive of Traditional Knowledge. Plans have developed for contact with concerned national and international institutions and technical meetings on selection, collection, organization and accessibility of materials.
Learning Materials in World Studies. The first activity here will be a university course manual on social problems in the thi~d world.
Global Symposium on Learning. To be presented jointly with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Canadian International Development Agency, the principal purpose of the symposium, to be held in Canada in April 1985, is to help initiate exploration of innovative methods needed to overcome problems of global interdisciplinary exchange caused by fragmentation and compartmentalization in the field of learning. A publication on the symposium is planned.
Advanced Seminar on Global Problems
84. This Seminar for potential future leaders will integrate knowledge on global problems, leadership and social l.earning. It is intended to stimulate the capacity of its participants for global thinking related to national and local problems, for understanding development as part of global transformation and for developing the qualities of leadership that are needed in dealing with global problems. Participants will be selected based upon their recognized potential for holding key
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national or international positions in the near future. The Seminar will touch upon the University's' concerns expressed in its five themes. A small task force was set up to draw up a plan of action for the pilot phase to be implemented
"" beginning in the second half of 1984.
Outreach activities ,::ji 85. These activities are intended as a help in extending the outreach activities of the University, including those under the public communication function. f' 86. University Lecture Series. The series is a response to the ne-ed for the University to have activities that make it visible to the public while contributing significantly to the elaboration of the themes of the medium-term perspective which underlie the University programme. Over the next five years, the series will focus on one theme each year. Various forms of dissemination are now being considered as follow-up.
87. As a result of Council discussions, consideration is being given to activities that will seek to improve the involvement of former and current Fellows in University work. Special attention is also being given to co-operation with scientific and professional organizations, such as the International Council of Scientific Unions, the Committee on Science and Technology for Development, the Committee on the Teachin~ of Science, The Hague Academy of International Law, the International Institute of Space Law, the European Association for Research and Development in Higher Education and with national academic and similar institutions.
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IV. MANAGING THE UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME
88. The University programme, with its various constituencies, components and participants scattered around the globe, is implemented by three programme divisions representing the three distinctive but complementary approaches to the University's work on global issues: Development Studies Division, Regional and Global Studies Division, and Global Studies Division.
A. Development Studies Division
89. The Division's work was done mainly in programme areas under theme III: Energy Systems and Policy, Resource Policy and Management and Food, Nutrition, IS Biotechnology and Poverty. It also does sorne work related to the food-energy IS nexus. In addition, the Division had projects in the programme area on peace and conflict resolution under theme l and the programme area on human and social development 'under theme IV. It also collaborates wi th other divisions in other !S programme areas, in particular with the Global Learning Division in the programme area on science, technology and the information society, under theme V.
B. Regional and Global Studies Division
90. The Division's work in the year under review was carried out mainly in 1S. programme areas under theme l (peace and global transformation project») theme III (food-energy nexus)J and theme IV (human and social development). The Division also works in the programme area on science technology and the information society under theme V. It carried out follow-up work on concluded projects, including assessment within the Division, producing publications based on research results, initia~ing dialogues based on research results and organizing training activities.
91. The major advance during the year was the development of new training modalities suited to the Division's approach to its work.
c. Global :~arning Division
92. The Division's work concentrated mainly on the programme area on science, technology and the information society under theme V. It also had projects in the programme area on peace, security, conflict resolution and global transformation under theme l, and in the p~ogramme area on human and social development under theme IV. The Division's major role in the University's dissemination of information activities, including the work of the Information Services and Academic Services, also gave it an active role in a range of activities spanning aIl programme areas. During the year under review, overall responsibility for co-ordination of the University's training activities was assigned to the Global Learning Division.
Dissemination of information and outreach
93. The dissemination of knowledge is carried out by aIl three programme divisions, while the overall responsibility for dissemination activities is assigned ta the Global Learning Division. This includes developing and
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!I! consolidating the relationships of scientific and professional organizations with 1 each division, fostering co-operation between them, and developing appropriate forms for conveying the results of research to potential users, particularly to academics and policy makers. The pract~cal aspects of dissemination are handled by Information Services, Academie Services, Computer Services and the fellowship unit newly assigned to the Division.
Information Services
94. The work of Information Services, which is now closely co-ordinated under the Division's activities, concentrated on the UNU Newsletter and its changing role and increased involvement with Development Forum activities. The Newsletter increased in size from 8 to 12 pages and now devotes each issue (three a year) to a single broad theme. Following the move of Development Forum from Geneva to New York early in 1984, editorial liaison WiL~ Information Services expanded.
95. Information Services helped ta produce the new experimental video tape about the University, "Sharing for survival", which was part of the Division's explorations of new modes of sharing knowledge and new learning materials.
Academie Services
96. As an Integral part of the Global Learning Division, Academie Service's role in the dissemination of the results of the University's work has corne under a more coherent strategy. Thus, aIl production processes for printed materials are now co-ordinated by Academie Services and a more systematized operation of the library is being studied.
Publishing. During the period under review, Academie Services co-ordinated the publication of 33 titles through the University Centre and 8 titles through co-publishers. Many other titles, show~ above under the various programme activities, were published by co-operating institutions in the University's programme networks. Approval was also given for 40 titles, tripling the number of the previous year, including 20 items to be published at the University Centre and another 20 by co-publishers. One book was published in French, one book was co-published in Chinese, and 4 books and 6 research papers were published in Japanese. (A list of selected titles is given in annex III.)
Distribution networks. During the year depository libraries for University publications increased from 24 in 24 countries to 40 in 40 countries.
Library and computer services. Library policy was discussed among concerned staff to develop up-to-date library, documentation and associated services and to co-ordinate University library functions with other facilities in Japan anà elsewhere.
r. 'Training
97. The fellowship activities during the year involved four programme areas: energy systems and policYJ resource policy and management, and food, nutrition, biotechnology and poverty, both under the responsibility of the Development Studies
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:0 98. Overall, as of 1 June 1984, there were 60 Fellows in training, and sorne 83 .ed by potential Fellows had been identified, including those in the programme areas on unit human and social development, and on peace, security, conflict resolution and global transformation. To date, 402 Fellows have completed training. By area of interest, the breakdown of Fellows is as follows (specific details are given under each programme area and project): ~ the Le and ~ased Programme area In training Potential Total completed ;Jle early Energy systems and policy 19 1 53 Resource policy and management 5 Il 90 Food, nutrition, biotechnology and poverty bout 32 64 254 Food-energy nexus 3 4 Human and social development 5 3 Peace, security, conflict resolution and global transformation 1
role 99. Prornpted by Council discussions on fellowships at its twenty-first and more twenty-second sessions and discussions within the University, training was now reorganized to achieve irnproved University-wide co-ordination of its implementation. brary
E. Planning and Evaluation lted 100. The second Annual Planning Meeting was held in April 1984 to discuss training and selected programme activities. It included four programme directors, five project co-ordinators, four consultants, and a former Special Fellcw of the United Nations University and a current UNU Fellow. lshed
md 101. A study was made of the evaluation reports on training activities in the ss is University's first eight years and on associated relationship with four institutions which, along with the Rector's comments, were discussed by the Council at its twenty-~~cond seGsion. During the biennium 1984-1985 external evaluation of ;ity the completed projects on Global Processes and Indicators of nevelopment, and on Land and Water Inter-Active Systems, will be carried out.
~rned F. Staffino ::es and . pan and 102. During the year under review, seven individuals from seven countries were appointed to the professional staff of the University. ~hese included: Mr. George Aseniero, Programme Officer Regional and Global Studies Division, Dr. Cecil A. Blake, Senior Programme Officer Global Learning Division, Mr. Saviour Boluda, Programme Officer Global Learninq Division, Mr. Max Bond, Assistant Programme Officer Institutional Planning and Resource Development, Mr. Jonothan Holliman, Publications and Research Officer (Information Services), on, Ms. Kumiko Ishikawa, Assistant Programme Officer Development Studies DivisionJ studies Ms. Tanya Korinfsky, copy Editor/Proof-reader (Academic S~rvices).
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103. In the same period, there were seven appointments of supporting staff, from three countries. Of these, three were new positions and four were replacements.
104. Dr. José v. Abueva, the Secretary of the University and Secretary of the Council since 1977, was reassigned as Director of the New York Liaison Office.
f er G. Collaboration with international, educational and scientific organizations
105. Progress was made during the year in strengthening collaboration in programme activities with organizations of the united Nations system and other international organizations. Sorne specific examples of collaboration are:
Arab League of Educational, Cultural Collaboration in work on emergence of and Scientific Organizations social thought.. (ALECSO) :
Food and Agriculture Organization of Appointed as joint lead agency in the the United Nations (FAO): area of traditional food conservation and processing technologies by the United Nations Administrative Committee on Co-ordination (ACC) Task Force on Science and Technology for Development. on. International Council of Scientific Collaboration in work on new modes for UnionsjCommittee on Science and sharing knowledge and new learning Technology for Development: materials.
International Development Research Collaboration with the Commission of the i Centre: European Communities in an international energy study qroup focusing on reviewing energy research needs in the third world.
International Institute for Collaboration in the project, "Climatic, .1 Applied Systems Analysis: Biotic and Human Interactions in the Humid lI If Tropics· •
International Institute of Sp~ce The Symposium on Conditions Essential for Law: Maintaining Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes, co-sponsored with the Peace Palace and the Carnegie Foundation, The Hague.
International Research and Training Collaboration in work on household, gender Institute for the Advancement and age. of Women:
Scientific Committee on Problems of participation as co-sponsor of the .i the Environment - Environmental International Conference on the Long-term Consequences of Nuclear Warj World-wide .Biological Consequences of International Council of Nuclear Warfare. Scientific Unions:
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1 , Society for International Development: Co-sponsored (with the Economie Commission from for Latin America and the Development study ents. Prograrnme of UNDP) a session of the North-South Round-table. he ce. United Nations Asia and Far East Collaboration in work on local security Institute for the Prevention of project. Crime and Treatment of Offenders:
United Nations Educational, Collaboration in work on information 'ogramme Scientific and Cultural overload and LnformatIon under-use. lational Organization: United Nations Children's Fund: Collaboration in work on Functional Consequences of Iron Deficiency and on of Assessment of Nutritional Component of Primary Health Care.
University for Peace: Co-sponsorship of a regional meeting in Costa Rica in regional peace and security. the ion and i:ed 1'\ Science
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V. INSTITUTIONAL PLAt..:ING AND FTlND-RAISING (incl recei organi A. Institutional development the Un and ma 106. The establishment of the University's first research and training centre, the World Institute for Development Economies Research (WIDER), at Helsinki, Finland, was initiated with the acceptance by the Council, at its twenty-second session in December 1983, of the generous offer by the Government of Finland to host the Institute. The offer included $US 30 million and premises for its establishment. 113. P Another generous offer came from the Government of the Netherlands. Steps are now furthe under way to mobilize additional funds for WIDER. 1984/8 design 107. The Government of the Netherlands is now considering another possible collee initiative with the University in the important area of new technologies and Adviso decentralized development, and joint preliminary explorations of its feasibility third are socn expected.
108. Explorations for the University's Institute for Natural Resources in Africa moved forward with the initialing of a Memorandum of Understanding by the Government of Ivory Coast and the University. The Government of the Ivory Coast has made a generous pledge of $5 million for the Institute and aqreed to provide excellent readily available physical facilities. A pledging co~ '~;ence is planned in Paris later in 1984 with the support of the Government of Fra. ,the World Bank and others, to raise funds for the InstitL~.
109. The Council approved a proposaI recornmended in a feasibility study undertaken for the University on the setting up of an international Institute for Biotechnology. According to the proposaI, the University would first establish a programme of research and training on biotechnology based at Caracas. Following subsequent evaluation of the programme and the conditions in the feasibility stu~y, the Council would consider the establishment of an institute, within the framework agreed upon in principle by the C~vernment of Venezuela and the University.
110. The Council acc~pted th~ conclusion~ of a Consultative Meeting he Id in Tokyo in May 1984 and endorsed the establishment of a research and training centre in Japan as an institute of advanced studies. It further agreed that the initial programme of the institute could be in the following areas: (a) science, technology and social changeJ (b) peace researchJ (c) social science views on development and world issuesJ (d) information and language communication studiesJ and (e) the humanities in a world of growing interdependence and cultural plurality.
Ill. The Council recommended that until permanent facilities are made available on the University headquarters site, work of the institute should begin in temporary quarters.
B. Funà-raising
112. The University's fund-raising efforts for establishing its own research and training centres have opened up new opportunities for increasing its financial and other resources for its overall work. During the period 1 July 1983 to 20 May 1984, $34,094,514 was pledged and/or contributed to the University by 12 Governments. As of 20 May 1984, pledges to the "Endowment and Operating Funds
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(including funds for WIDER), totalled $177,810,370, of which $129,822,238 had been received. In addition, a number of Governments, institutions, and other organizations have made indirect contributions in cash and in kind to the work of the Univelsity, including extra funds to the University's associated institutions and major projects in various parts of the world.
C. Permanent headquarters of the United Nations University
113. preparatory work for the permanent headquarters of the University moved further ahead with the allocation of a budgetary provision for the fiscal year 1984/85 for continuing planning activities, including development of the framework design. This design involves an overall study of architectural needs and collecting information for basic design. The technical working group of the Sir Advisory Commission of the Ministry of Education met in December 1983, for the third time, to discuss the draft guidelines for planning and design.
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ANNEX l *Dr. ~enèership of the Cou~cil of the UnitEd ~ations University and the Ccuncil CoronitteEs **Pro S A. Members of the Council of the United Nations University Dr. De K Note. The names of members appointed for the term 1980-1986 are shown without asterisk. One asterisk (*) indicates members a ( appointed for the term 1983-1989. Two asterisks (**) indicate new members, appointed in July 1984. Profes Sir John Kendrew, President, St. John's College, Oxford, United Kingdom, former P Director-General, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Federal F Republic of Germany, former Secretary-General, International Council of N Scientific Unions, Paris (Chairman of the Council) Profes Professor Ungku Abdul Aziz, vice-Chancellor and Royal Professor of Economics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
*Dr. Bakr Abdullah Bakr, Rector, university of Petroleum and MineraIs, Dhahran (Az'Zahran), Saudi Arabia Dr. F. *Dr. Bashir Bakri, Visiting Professor in Economics and Social Studies, University of Khartoum, Chairman, National Bank of Sudan, Khartoum, Sudan, former Ambassador of the Sudan to France; former Alternate Member, Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris *Profes Vi *Dr. Marie-Thérèse Basse, ~echnical Counselor, Office of the President of the of Republic of Senegal; former Director, Food Technology Institute, University of Co Dakar, Senegal, and former Permanent Representative of Senegal to FAO, Rome Dr. Kar. Dr. Daniel A. Bekoe, Director, UNESCO Regional Office for Science and Technology fo, for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya (Vice-Chairman and Chairman, Committee on Finance Sec and Budget) (resigned as of April 1984) COI 26 *Dr. André Blanc-Lapierre, Professor, University of Paris (SignaIs and Systems Laboratory, Advanced School of Electricity, Gif-sur-Yvette, France), former *Dr. Director-General, Advanced School of Electricity; Member, Frenell Academy of Sciences, Member, Pontifical Academy of Sciences; former Director, Nuclear Studies Institute; former Director, Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Paris
*Professor Dr. Jozsef Bognar, Director, Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; president, Scientific Council for World Economy, Budapest
Dr. Elise Boulding, Professor and Chairman, Department of Sociology, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Unlted States of America Profess Dr. Satish Chandra, Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Res University, New Delhi, former Chairman, University Grants Commission, India, For and former Dean, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University Dr. Char (Vice-Chairman and Chairman, Committee on Statutes, Rules and Guidelines) Ext Bel Abi -30- *Dr. Mercedes B. Concepci6n, Dean and Professor of Demography, population Institute, University of Philippines, Manila (Vice-Chairman)
**Professor Donald E. U. Ekong, Founding Vice-Chancellor, University of Cross River State, uyo, Cross River State, Nigeria
Dr. Dennis H. Irvine, Regional Science and Technology Adviser (Caribbean) UNESCO, Kingston, JamaicaJ former Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of GuyanaJ and former Chairman, Guyana National Science Research council, Georgetown (Chairman, Committee on the Report of the Council) (resigned as of June 1984) *
Professor André Louis Jaumotte, former RectorJ Honorary President of the CouncilJ Professor, Faculty of EngineeringJ Director, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Free University of BrusselsJ and Chairman, Committee for the Evaluation of R Nuclear Energy, Brussels M Professor Dr. Reimut Jochimsen, Minister for Economics and Transportation, State of North Rhine-Westphalia, DüsseldorfJ Professor of Economics, University of E Kiel; former Minister for Science and Research, State of North Rhine-WestphaliaJ former Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education M and Science, Federal Republic of GermanYJ former Member of the united Nations University Council (1974-1977) M Dr. F. S. C. P. Kalpage, Secretary, Ministry of Higher EducationJ Chairman, University Grants commission; and Vice-Chairman, National Science Council, M Colombo
*Professor Walter Joseph Kamba, Vice-Chancellor, Professor of Law and former Vice-Principal, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, zimbabweJ former Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Dundee, Scotland, former Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Comparative Law and Jurisprudence, London University C Dr. Karl Eric Knutsson, Deputy Executive Director (Operations), UNICEF, New York, former Regional Director for East Africa, UNICEF, Nairobi; former Secretary-General, Swedish Agency for Research Co-operation with Developing Countries (SAREC)J Professor, Stockholm University, Stockholm (resigned as of 26 January 1984)
*Dr. Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, former Ambassador of Portugal to UNESCO, paris, former Minister of Social AffairsJ former Secretary of State for Social SecuritYJ and former Caretaker Prime Minister, Portugal (Vice-Chairman and Chairman, Committee on Institutional and Programmatic Development)
*professor, Yevgeniy M. Primakov, Director, Institute for Oriental Studies, Moscow, USSRJ Vice President, World Peace Council, Helsinki, Member, Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Professor Shizuo Saito, Council Member, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)J Member, Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, President, Foreign Press Center ror JapanJ and Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
Dr. Charles Valy Tuho (formerly Valy Charles Diarrassoube), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Ivory Coast to Belgium, Brussels; former Rector, National University of the Ivory Coast, Abidjan
-3]- 1 Professor Victor Urquidi, President, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, former Co Member of the United Nations University Council (1978-1977) (Vice-Chairman and Chairman, Committee on Finance and Budget)
*Dr. Alberto Wagner de Reyna, former Ambassador of Peru to UNESCO, Paris; former Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, to Colombia, to Yugoslavia, and to France; and former Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs of Peru (Chairman, Committee on the Report of the Council) Co
*Ms. Zhao Dihua, Deputy Director, Division of Information Science and Methodology, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China and former Information Expert, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Beijing
Rector
Mr. Soedjatmoko
Ex-officio Members
Mr. Javier pérez de Cuéllar, Secretary-General, United Nations, New York
Mr. Amadou-~ahtar M'Bow, Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris
Mr. Michel 900 Kingué, Executive Director, united Nations Institute for Training and Rese~rch, New York
B. Members of the Committees of the Council of the United Nations university
Committee on Institutional and programmatic Development
Dr. Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo (Chairman) Dr. Marie-Thérèse Basse Dr. Elise Boulding Dr. Karl Eric Knutsson (resigned as of 26 January 1984) Professor Shizuo Saito Ms. Zhao Dihua
Committee on Finance and Budget
Dr. Daniel A. Bekoe (Chairman) (resigned as of April 1984) Professor Victor Urquidi (Chairman, as of July 1984) Dr. Bakr Abdullah Bakr Dr. Mercedes B. Concepcion Professor André Louis Jaumotte Dr. F. S. C. P. Kalpage
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Dr. Satish Chandra (Chairman) Professor André Blanc-Lapierre Dr. Reimut Jochimsen Professor Walter Joseph Kamba
Committee on the Report of the Council
Dr. Dennis Irvine (Chairman) (resigned as of June 1984) Dr. Alberto Wagner de Reyna (Chairman, as of July 1984) Professor Ungku Abdul Aziz (as of July 1984)
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AN~FX II
Froject and institutional co-ordinators and staff mewbers of the University
A. Project Co-ordinators and Institutional Co-ordinators
Ismail Sabri Abdalla (Project Co-ordinator, Regional and Global Studies (RGS», Chairman, Third World Forum, Cairo
Dr. Anouar Abdel-Malek (Project Co-ordinator, RGS), Institute of Human Sciences, National Centre of Scientific Research, Paris
Dr. James o. Adejuwon (Institutional Co-ordinator, Development Studies (DS), Department of Geography, University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Dr. Samir Amin (Project Co-ordinator, RGS), UNITAR Project "Strategies for the Future of Africa," Dakar, Senegal
Dr. B. L. Amla (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Central Food Technological Institute, Mysora, India
Dr. Eric C. F. Bird (project Co-ordinator, DS), Department of Geography, University of Melbourne, parkville, Victoria, Australia
Dr. Mostéfa Boudiaf (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Centre de recherche en architecture et urbanisme, Ecole polytechnique d'architecture et urbanisme, Algiers
Dr. Gerardo Budowski (Project Co-ordinator, DS), Head, Natural Renewable Resources Programme, Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Dr. Mohamed Ahmed El Rashid (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Institute of Environmental Studies, University of Khartoum
Dr. Luis Fajardo (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Universidad deI Valle, Cali, Colombia
Dr. Ingvar B. Fridleifsson (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), National Energy Authority of Iceland, Reykjavik
Dr. Hernando Gémez-Buendia (Project Co-ordinator, DS), Fedesarrollo, Bogota, colombia
Dr. pablo Gonzalez Casanova (Project Co-ordinator, RGS), Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Coyoacan, Mexico
Dr. Amilcar Hererra (project Co-ordinator, RGS), Universidade Estadual de campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Dr. Shinichi Ichimura (project Co-ordinator, DS), Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Dr. Jack D. Ives (Project Co-ordinator, DS), Department of Mountain Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
Dr. Thomas A. Lawand (Project Co-ordinator, DS), Director, Brace Research Institute, Faculty of Engineering, MacDonald College of McGill University, Qt:;ebec, Canada
Dr. Maurice Lévy (Project Co-ordinator, DS), Director, Musée national des sciences, des techniques et des industries, Paris
Dr. Jack Mabbutt (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Department of Geography, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Carlos A. Mallman (project Co-ordinator, RGS), Executive President, Bariloche Foundation, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
Dr. Eleonora Masini (Project Co-ordinator, DS), President, World Future Studies Federation, Rome
Dr. S. S. Mathur (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Head, Centre of Energy Studies, y Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Dr. Bruno Messerli (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Institute of Geography, University of Berne, Switzerland
Dr. Richard Orraca-Tetteh (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Dr. L. B. Rankine (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Department of Crop Science, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad
Dr. C. V. Seshadri (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Shri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre, Photosynthesis and Energy Division, Madras, India
Mercedes Solon (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Nutrition Center of the Philippines, Makati, Philippines
Eduardo Somarriba (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre, Turrialba, Costa Rica
Dr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen (Project Co-ordinator, RGS), El Colegio de México, Mexico City
Dr. Keiji Umeda (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), National Food Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
Dr. Victor Valverde (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Institute of Nutrition of IS, Central America and Panama, Guatemala City
Dr. Aree Valyasevi (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Bangkok
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Dr. Wu Chuan Chun (Institutional Co-ordinator, DS), Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Dr. Setsuko Yukawa (Project Co-ordinator, DS), Professor of Economics, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan
E. Staff lTJerr1:·ers of the United Nations Univers..!!ï.
Office of the Rector
Mr. Soedjatmoko, Rector Dr. Michio Nagai, Senior Adviser to the Rector Mr. S. Chidambaranathan, Executive Officer Dr. José V. Abueva, Secretary of the University Mr. vishakan Krishnadasan, Legal Counsel Mr. Amadio A. Arboleda, Assistant to Secretary of the University Dr. Erwin Ramedhan, Special Assistant to the Rector
Planning and Evaluation Services
Dr. H. A. B. Parpia, Director Mr. Wolfgang Buss, Senior Planning and Evaluation Officer
Institutional Planning and Resource Development
Dr. Alexander A. Kwapong, Vice-Rector Dr. Edward S. Ayensu, Principal Institutional and Development Officer* Mr. Arthur Collingsworth, Senior Resource Development Officer Mr. Vagn Kjellberg, Governmental and Institutional Relations Officer Mr. Max Bond, Assistant Programme Officer
Development Studies Division
Dr. Miguel Urrutia, Vice-Rector Dr. Walther Manshard, Programme Director* Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Programme Director* Dr. Robert Kokke, Senior Programme Officer Dr. Walter C. Shearer, Senior Programme Officer Ms. Kathleen Landauer, Programme Officer Mr. Aly-Raza Nazerali, Assistant Programme Officer Ms. Kumiko Ishikawa, Assistant Programme Officer
* Part time staff, not based in Tokyo
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Dr. Rinhide Mushakoji, Vice-Rector nese Dr. Rajni Rothari, Programme Director* Dr. Ignacy Sachs, Programme Director* Dr. Janusz Golebiowski, Senior Programme Officer ngyo Dr. Hossam Issa, Senior Programme Officer Dr. Takeo Uchida, Programme Officer Mr. George Aseniero, Programme Officer
Global Learning Division
Mr. Edward W. Ploman, Vice-Rector Dr. Cecil Blake, Senior Programme Officer Mr. Josè Mata, Co-ordinator, Translation and Interpretation Services Mr. Saviour Boluda, Programme Officer
Information Services
Mr. John M.Fenton, Writer/Research Officer (Officer-in-Charge) Mr. Razuo Tsushima, Information Officer (Japan) Mr. Jonathan Holliman, Publications and Research Officer
Academie Services
Mr. Shigeo Minowa, Chief Ms. Yasuko Tashiro, Translator Mr. James E. Ricketson, Copy Editor/Proof-reader Ms. Tanya Rorinsfsky, Copy Editor/Proof-reader
Administrative Services
Mr. Rahinder N. Malik, Chief, Conference and General Services (Director of Administration, a.i.) Mr. Akio Romatsuki, Chief, Financial Services and Japanese Government Liaison Officer Mr. Wayne Ching, Chief, Budgetary Services Mr. Barry de Crummere, Finance Officer Mr. Ryuto Rawade, Administrative Officer
New York Liaison Office
Mr. R. A. Fleming, Director Mr. Ivan Ranterovitz, Administrative Officer
Information Office for Europe
Mr. C. T. Isolani, Information Representative (London)
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Major publications, July 1983 - June 1984
Centre Publications
K. T. Achaya, ed. Interfaces between agriculture, nutrition and food science. Technical report series.
Ingvar Birgir Friedleifsson, ed. Report of the First Meeting of the Standing Advisory Committee on Geothermal Energy Training, Pisa, Ita1y, November 1980. Report series.
L. H. MacDonald, ed. Agroforesterie en Afrique tropicale humide. Technica1 series.
M. Nagai, ed. Development in the non-western wcrld.
In English and Japanese.
M. Nagai, ed. In search of peace in the nuclear age.
In Japanese.
T. Nakamura, ed. Matsukata's deflationary policy.
In Japanese.
W. M. Rand, R. Uauy and N. Scrimshaw, eds. Protein-energy-requirement stuàies in developing countries: resu1ts of international research. Technica1 series report.
K. Ruddle and D. Rondinelli. Transforming natura1 resources for human development: a resource systems framework for development policy. Technical series.
K. Rudd1e and Wu Chuanjin. Land resources of the People's Republic of China. Technical series.
S. E. Shan, R. Lockwood and N. Scrimshaw, eds. Methods for the eva1uation of the impact of food and nutrition programmes. Technical report series.
A. Sicinski and M. Wemegah, eds. Alternative ways of life in contemporary Europe.
Co-Publications
I. S. Abdalla, I. S. el-Din Abdalla, M. Abdel-Fadi1 and A. Nassaro Images of the Arab future. Frances Printer (Publishers) Ltd.
H. Addo, ed. Transforming the world economy: nine critical essays on the NIED, Hodder and Stoughton.
Anisuzzaman and A. Abdel-Malek, eds. Culture and thought (v.3 in The transformation of the world.) Macmillan.
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A. K. Biswas, Z. Dakang, J. E. Nickum and L. Changming, eds. Long-distance water transfer: a Chinese case study and international experiences. Tycooly International Ltd.
A Chinese edition of this book was published by Science publishers of China.
M. Gonzales and A. Abdel-Malek, eds. Economy and society (v.l in The transformation of the world.) Macmillan. ~. M. Lévy and J. Robinson, eds. Energy and agriculture: their interacting futures. Harwood Academic Publishers. ~ 980. C. A. Mallman and o. Nudler, eds. Human development in its social context: a collective exploration. Hodder and Stoughton.
series. E. Masini, ed. Visions of desirable societies. Pergamon Press.
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