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United Nations Nations Unies Interoffice Memorandum UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM The Secretary-General DATE: 1 May 2001 THROUGH: Ms. Elisabeth Lindenmayer SIC DE: FROM: Gillian Martin Sorensen DE: SUBJECT: United Nations Intellectual History Project 1. The first volume of the United Nations Intellectual History Project is ready for launch. Mr. Thomas G. Weiss and Mr. Richard Jolly ask if you would attend a reception for the book launch at 6:30 p.m. on 30 May 2001 in the Delegates' Dining Room. Recommendation: Accept May Reception. You wrote the Foreword to this book and supported the project fully. Your calendar appears to be clear at that time. 2. Additional volumes on peace and security issues have now been commissioned. Tom Weiss sent a letter in early April 2001 to the foundation presidents wjhojiave supported the project to date, asking them to look favourably on a renewal. Michael Doyle is now preparing letters, for your signature, to Development Ministers of Canada, Norway, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom who supported the project. You will have those letters tomorrow (Wednesday). Recommendation: Accept to send letters to Development Ministers. „. MflY-01-2001 18:05 P. 02 i United Nations intellectual History Projec Tha Graduate Schiml and Univorsity Centsr Hie City UnivBtsily of NsW Yark 365 Fifth Avenue New Vbrlt,NV 10016-4JBS TEL 212.817.1920 FAX 212,817.1565 E-MAIL UNHistO/y-iBJgc.cunv.eitll PROJECT OIRSCTW Lauis'finrrKrij inrahsiie: www.unhi5torv.org f5diB.nl Jolly •1123,2001 Dr. Vartan Gregorian, President, . Palaii 0*91 [iladant Carnegie Corporation of New York (•can B-ldH CHtZllfianawli 437 Madison Avenue New York, NY Mr ITOJ 9(7.7 Dear Greg, I am writing on behalf of my colleagues (Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Yves Berthelot) and myself and as a direct follow-up to your recent letter from Kofi Annan. I also briefed you on many of these developments at a pleasant breakfast late last year. Some two years ago your foundation was generous and far-sighted enough to support the United Nations Intellectual History Project (UNIHP). At the urging of the UN Secretary-General, private foundations took the lead in order to guarantee the independence of this undertaking-— necessary for the work and also for its subsequent reception. Indeed, we were immensely grateful that you took the lead in helping to mobilize your colleagues in the philanthropic world. I am enclosing an updated proposal to the Carnegie Corporation of New York to renew support for the on-going and expanding work of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. Your own extremely generous contribution of five hundred thousand dollars sterling helped mobilize additional commitments from a host of other donors totaling an additional $2.5 million from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Government of The Netherlands, Government of the United Kingdom, the Ford Foundation, the Government of Sweden, the Government of Canada, the Government of Switzerland, and the Government of Norway. Help with conference costs has also been received from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Dag Hatnmarskjold Foundation. Indeed, the support from Carnegie has proved essential to the flexible functioning of this effort. We have used your grant not only for leverage but also expended your funds and then reimbursed them from tied funds. Thank you. httKtfWWW.gc.cLJrty.ed u The Gradual School and Univareily Csnlar Is UK City UDWMQO! 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After careful consideration, we have agreed to move ahead as Kofi Annan requested. This will lengthen the project's duration by about 18 months and add about $] million to our original budgetary estimate. A different modality will be required. Unlike the ideas linked to the world economy., the UN's contributions to international peace and security have been the subject of considerable case research and some oral history. Nonetheless, the focus upon ideas and norms would be fresh and ensure that the UNIHF's story is complete. In addition, the complementary volumes could also make cost-effective use of the UNIHP's infrastructure (the secretariat and the International Advisory Council). In fact, "human security" had already been one of the key ideas included in the UN's framing of responses to global economic challenges. And the pertinence of another book, "global governance," emanated from its focus on economic and social governance. Both of these volumes have now been refrained and expanded to include the political and military dimensions of those concepts. In addition to the inherent importance of collective security, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, and humanitarian intervention, contextualizing the underlying economic and social conditions resulting from "development ideas and concepts in action" (the project's original sub-title) would be an essential lens through which to evaluate the UN's contributions to peace and security. In summary, we would like to be in a position to complete our independent analysis of selected key ideas and concepts about international economic and social cooperation bom or nurtured under UN auspices. But we would also like to take into account related ideas of international peace and security. Both economic and social ideas as well as the new dimensions of peace and security are central Carnegie concerns. Thus, we would be most grateful if the Carnegie Corporation would consider making a second contribution similar to your own first generous one. In this regard, permit me also to provide an update so that you can gauge the momentum of the project. We are on, and in some cases ahead, of schedule, as I explained in a recent update to Amanda Famiglietti. First, permit me to draw your attention to the attached advance copy of the project's first volume, Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and '."•;^-.•;usS \.iflM MAY-01-2001 18=06 P'04 Global Challenges. You will of course receive copies when it is published •'::"' by Indiana University Press in early Spring. v As you will see in the body of the proposal, all except one of the original 14 volumes have now been commissioned. The second main component of the project is the oral history. We have now completed 30 of the scheduled interviews, and a number of citations enlivened Ahead of the Curve? The body of the proposal also contains the names of past and future interviewees. The Carnegie Corporation is not only one of the pillars of multilateralism. It has also been instrumental in launching the United Nations Intellectual History Project. We are truly grateful for your past confidence. We are hopeful that you will continue to make our work possible. I would be grateful if we could discuss next steps at your convenience. Yours, Thomas G. Weiss Presidential Professor and Director, Ralph Bunch Institute Co-director, UN Intellectual History Project Cc: D. Speedie, A, Famiglietti MflY-01-2001 18:07 P.05 Similar letter was also sent to: Or, Lincoln Chen, Vice President The Rockefeller Foundation 450 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10018 Dr. Mitchel B. Wallerstein, Vice-President The John D. and Catherine T. MacArchur Foundation 140 South Dearborn Street, Suite 1100 Chicago, Illinois 60603-5285 Mr. Anthony Romero, Director Human Rights and International Cooperation The Ford Foundation 320 East 43rd Street New York, New York 10017 MflY-29-2001 IS=57 i Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies The Graduate School and Univeisi'ly Center The City UniusrsitV of New Yofk 385 Firth Avenue New York. NY 10016.4309 QIKKIQR m 21Z.fll7.71DO FAX 212.817.156E Thomas G. Weiss United Nations Intellectual History Project Book Launch Reception, May 30, 2001 Delegates Dining Room 6 Baali, H.E. Mr. Abdallah Algerian Mission to the UN Blank, Blanche Booker, Teresa UNIHP Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline CUNY Bunch, Charlotte Burnley, Maureen Family Justice, Inc. Carayannis, Tatiana UN Intellectual History Project Carayannts, Jocelyn UN Intellectual History Project Carlson, Ralph Oxford University Press Chamberlain, Marian National Council for Research on Women Crosselte, Barbara New York Times/UN Bureau De Leon, Frank FADesign, Inc. Deng, Francis CUNY Dugan, f lugh T. United States Mission to the UN Eldon, H.E. Mr. Stuart G. UK Mission to the UN Eilison, Mr. And Mrs. Scott UN Intellectual History Project Emmerij, Louis UNIHP Fonesca, H.E. Mr. Gelson Braxilian Mission to the UN Thu Gioduale School and Univeraly Cemar v Tbe City UIKWI^IY ul New ''a*': 'jKHjule-grai.I.nq insl-luliun. wlnc'i oudral--."n.uriuiiii.jm •«i|li 3H Hi: CUNY id-wra 3ei-jKl M 3:'jrn Cnliscc •j aainugh al Mnnr\al:nr- Cammunify Caflr^gc •. Srrinx r.am.-nuniry .r.3llagc . SranUyn College •: Hir. L-^- College . TTio Cir/ JnucniTv al NC\K VD:i Wcdicji School •-' Tlii: Cii^ Jni.cr.ir. il Mc^ Ynrt X^cul ( :^l LH* <ll OlitienT Cr> le'Jt •- flm ^'^^'JH rl( jr-lMrL JO.^ml .
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