ID | 088075 |
Title Proper | John W. Holmes lecture |
Other Title Information | growing the "Third UN" for people-centered development-the nited Nations, Civil Society, and Beyond |
Language | ENG |
Author | Coate , Roger A |
Publication | 2009. |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | Three decades ago John Holmes argued that the need for having the kind of "international organizations in which to tackle the inescapably complex economic and social issues in an interdependent world need not be restated." Despite these words, ten years later, when Donald Puchala and I presented the first "State of the United Nations Report" to the second annual meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), we found an organizational system teetering and tottering on the verge of crisis.1 There was a void of leadership, as well as a crisis of capacity precipitated largely by the refusal of the United States to fulfill its legal obligation to fund UN agencies; and staff morale was at a historic low. One of the main themes that we explored in that report was the challenge to the UN system-as intergovernmental institutions- of dealing with the plethora of global problems that confront the world and dominate the global agenda and that cannot be solved by governmental or intergovernmental means alone. Now, after twenty more years, the illusive quest continues for new avenues and directions for making global governance more effective for promoting sustainable human security and development. |
`In' analytical Note | Global Governance Vol. 15,No. 2; Apr/June 2009: p153-168 |
Journal Source | Global Governance Vol. 15,No. 2; Apr/June 2009: p153-168 |
Key Words | John W. Holmes Lecture ; Growing ; Third UN ; People-centered Development ; United Nations ; Civil ; Society |