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Volume XXXVII
Number 1 2000

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In This Issue... Growing Global
Millennium Report
There is much today to be grateful for, and many things to deplore and correct, says Secretary-General Kofi Annan in We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century. The central challenge is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive force for all the world's people, instead of leaving billions behind in squalor. The report (adapted here in a special section) has been prepared for consideration at the Millennium Summit of world leaders in September. (35)

A Millennium of Minds
Creating a New Global Architecture (33)
Cooperative multilateralism can allow for a United Nations with a greater capacity to reach fundamental objectives.
Francisco Rojas Aravena

Of Institutions and Development (88)
In fostering development, the international community has to ensure aid helps in institution-building.
Beatrice Weder


A Century in Retrospect
Legacy and Lessons (4)
If the UN expects to remain effective in the twenty-first century, it must build on its legacy and lessons from the twentieth.
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan

Bridging the Language Gap at the United Nations (84)
The beginnings of modern conference interpretation.
Jésus Baigorri-Jalón


Commentary:
Globalization and Governance
Essay (64)
The examination of institutions and of the limits to the economic shocks that populations can absorb needs to be buttressed by a more subtle understanding of market forces under varying conditions.
Karel von Wolferen

The Road from Seattle (28)
Ann Marie Erb-Leoncavallo

Villages as a Positive Force for Good Governance (86)
Bunker Roy

IFAD's Decentralized Approach to Governance (90)
Klemens van de Sand

Opinion: A Culture of Tolerance and Acceptance (94)
Richard Jordan

Plus...
The Chronicle Interview: Nadine B. Hack (6)
The United Nations joined some 200 countries and organizations at Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany, which began on 1 June. The Chronicle spoke with the UN Commissioner-General on the preparations and her expectations for the exposition.

Millennium Forum: A Global Consultation by Civil Society (9)
Techeste Ahderom

Creating a Spiritual UN (11)
Benjamin Weil

Building upon Peace in the Balkans (20)
Danuta Hubner

Post-War Environmental Impact Study in the Balkans (21)
Pekka Haavisto

Practical Disarmament and the Group of Interested States (22)
Dieter Kastrup

Armed to the Teeth: Small Arms Proliferation (24)
Marcus Balser

Real Reform at the UN (26)
All organizations must change in this new era. What is needed is consensus.
J. Brian Atwood

Report: General Assembly 54 (68)
"Adapting to a changing world": the leitmotiv that tied together the work of the Assembly.


Departments
PeaceWatch (12)
Month of Africa, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Burundi, Kosovo, East Timor and other peace-keeping actions.

Working Within (19)
Responding to the Orissa Cyclone

Library Shelf (32)

UNreported (63)

NGOWatch (80)
World YWCA Council
Muna Kaldawi-Killingback

WomenWatch (81)
The United Nations, Women and New York City
June deH. Weldon

SystemWatch (82)
Vienna International Centre
Rod Pritchard-Smith

coUNterpoint (83)

Passing By (95)

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