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FAQ on the UNU

1. Why was the UNU created?

In 1969, following a proposal by the then Secretary-General U Thant, the United Nations recommended that a new type of university be established to promote international scholarly cooperation; undertake problem-oriented, multidisciplinary research on urgent global concerns; and strengthen research and training capacities in developing countries.

2. What are the UNU's main aims and objectives?

The mission of the UNU is to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations and its Member States. The UNU aims to fulfil its mission by performing four key roles that are based on the mandate given to the University by its Charter: to be an international community of scholars; to form a bridge between the United Nations and the international academic community; to serve as a think-tank for the United Nations system; and to contribute to capacity building, particularly in developing countries. To help increase the research and training capacities, the UNU's current activities are grouped in two main areas: environment and sustainable development, and peace and governance. In the present homepage, research projects are classified and described under these two areas.

3. How is the UNU organized?

The University consists of the UNU Centre in Tokyo, several research and training centres and programmes (RTC/Ps), and a network of associated and cooperating institutions and scholars. The University Centre in Tokyo is the central programming and coordinating body of the University, designated to assist the Rector, chief academic and administrative officer of the University, in the direction, organization and administration of the overall programme. RTC/Ps are created by the UNU in various parts of the world to focus on specific problems, and links are forged with existing universities, national research centres, and other organizations located mainly in developing countries. All these elements interact in a networking manner. The principles and policies for the University are set by its governing Council.

4. Why was Tokyo selected as the location of the UNU headquarters?

The location of the UNU Headquarters in Tokyo reflects a long-standing Japanese commitment to the goals of the United Nations and the willingness of the Japanese Government to demonstrate this through its investment in the University. In the early 1970s, the Government of Japan pledged US$100 million to establish the University's Endowment Fund. The UNU moved to its permanent headquarters building in the centre of Tokyo in 1992. Adjacent to the headquarters building, on the same premises, is the UNU Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU/IAS), which has since 1996 operated as the most recent research and training centre of the UNU.

5. How is the UNU financed?

The UNU gets no funds from the regular budget of the United Nations. Financial support is entirely by way of voluntary contributions from governments, agencies, foundations and individual donors. The UNU's basic revenue for operating expenses is generated by investment income from its Endowment Fund. The UNU budget for the current biennium (2002-2003) stands at US$73.5 million. Currently, pledges to the Endowment Fund, operating and specific programme contributions made by 58 governments and 214 other benefactors totaled some US$382 million. The University also has benefited from counterpart and other support, including cost-sharing support for the fellowships. Major contributions received during 2001 are described in the Annual Report for the year.

6. Who are the UNU's students?

As an academic institution of the United Nations, the UNU has no student body in the traditional sense. Its students are postgraduate or young postdoctoral researchers, mainly from developing countries, who receive advanced training as UNU Fellows or participate in UNU training courses, seminars and workshops.

7. How can I become a UNU Fellow?

A prospective UNU Fellow cannot apply directly to the UNU for postgraduate training. Fellows are chosen after recommendations from their home institutions, which must be working in an area of concern to the UNU, and candidates must be committed to returning to work at their home institutions. Most fellows are from developing countries. Besides this type of "institutional" fellowships, some UNU research and training centres offer Ph.D. fellowships in their respective areas of priority, which are announced in their homepages for individual applications. The UNU also awards fellowships to selected applicants, mainly from developing countries, for some of its training courses and seminars. Such training activities currently include the Global Seminar series in Japan, the UNU/ILA leadership programme in Amman, and International Courses commenced in Tokyo in February 1999. Detailed information on the UNU fellowships is available here.

8. Where do the staff come from?

The UNU's academic and professional staff at its Tokyo Centre and RTC/Ps are recruited from universities, research institutions, and international organziations, often on secondment for fixed terms. Vacancies for professional staff are advertised in specialized magazines, newspapers, the UN Vacancy Announcement Bulletin, and the UNU website. The support staff are usually recruited locally. The University's academic network personnel generally hold positions at major universities worldwide and remain in their posts while working with UNU programmes. A wide variety of nationalities and cultures are represented.

9. How does the UNU reach opinion leaders and policy makers?

The UNU holds conferences, seminars, and consultative meetings around the world and responds quickly to meet current concerns. Its colloquia and publications address pivotal problems, such as conflict resolution, peace and good governance, development economics, science and technology, and environmental issues. Findings and knowledge gained from UNU's research activities are also provided to opinion leaders and policy makers through its participation in global conferences organized by the United Nations, which have included the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992), the World Social Summit in Copenhagen (1995), the World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995), the World Conference on Higher Education in Paris (199, the Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

10. How does the UNU disseminate and publicize its work?

The UNU has its own scholarly press that produces academic publications and operates in the production of five professional journals. Work in Progress and UNU Nexions newsletters, annual reports, and several brochures are also issued to report on the ongoing research and developments in the UNU network. The full texts of UNU books and other printed materials are increasingly made available in electronic form, such as CD-ROMs and at the websites of the UNU Press and UNU Update.

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So this is the think tank of these Agendas for the United Nations sponsored well actually established, funded and endowed by .... The Japanese.

Not Iraq. Not Iran. Not Venezuela. Not North Korea.

The Japanese.

I tried to find if the US Government contributes in anyway to this Globalists University ... but so far have not been able to determine if we do or not. A search for US Contributions to United Nations University did not produce anything.

Things are not what they seem at all on the surface. I don't know exactly what this means. But what it seems to mean is that a university, a virtual university, was created to brainwash the world into a certain type of thinking with a special focus on those individuals who would work in international relations, international affairs, international trade to be Globalists instead of Nationalists and that this concept was conceived by the ones who elected to fund it ... The Japanese.

Why? Why would the Japanese be interested in such a thing since they are one of the most Nationalistic nations of all?

And why would something sourced from the United Nations University Press be posted on freerepublic?

I'm glad it was and that it made it's way here. How incredibly interesting .... !!

Japan. Well aren't you still the clever ones.

Great research Judy, but at the end the UN and her proxy the Federal Reserve is behind this globalization
They got Europe now they come after us.
The English people are not buying, Tony Blair is desperate.
I didn't understand how Blair could be so friend with bush, now I got it because they both are sold out to globalization .

Yep ... and I think Bush got Tony sold to Globalists.

I also think We are in a very dangerous period.

Japan is trying to get a seat on the Permanent Security Council with VETO POWER just like the USA.

I'm opposed to this. No nation can do what they did in WWII and ever be on the UN Security Council. Not ever.

And now we see they have their little clever Globalist University spewing spit all around the Globe.

Unbelievable.

It just reaffirms once a nation gets the Hegemony Rule the World Bug ... they never ever lose it. It's always there ... festering ... to rise again if not by the old way that failed then by a new more clever means.

Originally Posted by minnie

Great research Judy, but at the end the UN and her proxy the Federal Reserve is behind this globalization
They got Europe now they come after us.
The English people are not buying, Tony Blair is desperate.
I didn't understand how Blair could be so friend with bush, now I got it because they both are sold out to globalization .

Yes and no. They did get Europe and now they are coming for us, but given the fact that I have English in-laws and that I spend several weeks every year in the UK, I'm not sure that the English "aren't buying." The British have been inured to Socialism, and they are indeed "buying." We are the last bulwark against global Socialism, and so we must stand tall.

Originally Posted by Neese

I think it's dangerous to hate the individual leaders of other nations. I think we made that mistake in Iraq. We tend to judge them by our circumstances when theirs are very different and we need to be careful and cautious about that and do our best to treat everyone the same. There isn't anything we really do for Venezuela except buy their oil and products. I understand that the well to do of Venezuela are quite worried because of the taxation and possible eminent domain/nationalization type activities that may take place to better redistribute their resources to deal with this extreme poverty. I read a report several months ago that indicated he had reduced poverty by about 10% in just his first 4 years of office and you know he had our coup of his election to deal with. I'm not a fan of communists or even socialists, but social programs to alleviate suffering and inequities along the lines of what we have are unfortunately necessary.

Judy, I am struggling with your compassion towards people that would not hesistate to blow off my head, or yours for that matter. Their circumstances truly are different than our, and you cannot treat everyone the same. The sad truth is that most of these men, if not all, are sneaky and deceitful. They put up smokescreens to make it look like they are heroes, when in fact they are harming their own people. Please Google this topic, you will find out quickly that Chavez is not the saint that you think he is. The problem with being politically correct in times of war is that we are wasting loads of time and money. The very people complaining that this war is taking too long, are also the people who are dragging it out. We need to wake up, stop being so polite and finish things up in the middle east. I am sick and tired of hearing about terrorists rights at Gitmo...blah, blah, blah. These people do not deserve any rights...they kill for a living, unjustly and without remorse. Everyone needs to stop listening to the Hollywood crowd. They are uneducated, attention seeking whiners who support causes that they know nothing about.

Stick to your guns, Neese. You are on the right track.

I don't have a military background, so I won't pretend to be an expert on this issue. However, I would like to comment on a few things:

*Terrorism is growing and is spread throughout the world. There are sleeper cells waiting to cause harm to innocent people. Without a reduction in numbers, we are setting ourselves up for more devastation than we can imagine.

* We have a volunteer military. I am not sympathetic to the sob stories where people joined "only for the free education". While I am sympathetic toward the patriotic and brave Americans that volunteered for the right reasons, I have no sympathy toward people who volunteered only for selfish reasons, and to use our government and our tax payers money. When you volunteer for the military, you get what you get, and the purpose of a military is to protect and serve.

*Our society tells us that we must get everything right now. If we take any message from this war is that America is not invincible. There are limits to what we can do, and as the number of terrorists grow, we will be able to do even less. The people that want to pull out and stick their head in the sand, are living in denial. We don't live in a nice world. And just because we say that we are withdrawing from the war, will not make the problem go away. Terrorism is like a cancer, and if left untreated, will slowly (or quickly) kill us all.

*How long does it take to change a culture? While many Americans feel like we should be able to fly in, drop a few bombs and get out. That is an unrealistic goal. Maybe people should travel a little more outside of our own country and see what it is really like. Don't take what we have for granted, and don't defend those who have intentions of doing us harm.

*Bush is getting a lot of slack for this war, and I am not saying that he hasn't contributed to the problems. What I am saying is that there were many other politicians who supported the war and then when things went bad, they left Bush holding the bag. Wasn't President Clinton close to Osama Bin Laden's family? This has been a progression of problems, and terrorism started well befor 9/11.

*Our military has done amazing things for the middle east and is trying to bring justice to a country that has none. The media chooses to focus on the death counts instead of showing the advancements made there. I am surprised that there are so many who are fooled by this political ploy.

*War...destruction, casualties, secret missions...Yep, sounds like war to me and it isn't pretty. It is the same as any war ever fought, with the exception that we can see the live coverage and the debilitating effect that it has. The bleeding hearts feel like they are doing good by praising peace, but they aren't looking at the big picture. If the United States falls, we all fall, and we fall hard. There are too many people in this world depending on us, and there is not another country in this world who is more generous with it's time, or with it's money. Rules in life and rules in war are two very differnt things, don't get them confused. If anyone does follow the rules, it is the US, and it only slows us down and costs us more money. If you think that other countries follow the rules, you are kidding yourselves. Don't believe me? Go ahead and buy that prayer rug when it goes on sale, because you will be needing it in the future.

* Iraq needs to step up to the plate. We can only do so much and the Iraqi people need to take the initiative. I am sure that we can all relate to this, as we are fighting a paper war against illegal immigration. If everyone doesn't do their part, we will lose.

*Americans have no game face. Instead of having a plan and keeping it quiet, we have far left liberals demanding to expose our military secrets and destroying the credibility of our government. Why provide a date that the US military will withdraw troops? Why would we want to announce our game plan? So that the enemy will have an advantage? Think about it. If we take all of our troops out now, all at once, the very people that we are trying to help will get slaughtered. The the women, the children, the innocent men who tried to make a difference. Do you want that on your conscience?

I know that my thoughts aren't going to change any minds, but I hope that it will give you food for thought. We need to stick together, our lives depend on it.

NEESE
you certainly have a handle on much of this.

The UN purposely butted heads with us on not only Iraq, but how we deal with the Stan. They have done everything possible, the thief Anan taking the lead as mouth #1, to put road blocks in our path every step of the way to increase the chance of failure. MEMBERS...UN MEMBERS have been and are funding and supporting the enemy! FACT. And still, the United Nations of genocide and thieves keeps plugging along. Bush and cabal have made grave errors {purposely?} hand feeding them all the ammunition that they needed.

Everyone should keep in mind that they let klinton slam missles every freaking place he wanted to for distractions, and barely uttered a how do ya do. Hmmmmm

It is important to remember that this is a struggle for power between the American Internationist Globalists AND the UN. Same goal, different power structure. Many are crossing lines with their hands in both of the pies.

More Dems are UN internationalists and more Repubs are American Globalists. Same crap - different addresses.

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They are under the umbrella of CFR, UN, and in England is just like here the media don't report anything .

I am willing to bet that American citizens themselves have caused alot of the bad publicity that the US is getting. I am none too happy about President Bush either, but I am not going to scream it from the mountaintops. It's kind of like when you are having a fight with your family. You can scream and yell all that you want, but you don't take it outside of the house. Same difference. President Bush represents us, so when his reputation goes down the drain, all of our security is at risk. As for the UN, I don't understand why we waste our tax dollars. We should do something with Australia and the UK. We are left on our own anyway, and even the Germans and French are in the middle east and are told not to fight? Idiots!! We don't need help like that.

I cannot agree with you, bush is a lier, every body in the world knows, is a traitor , we Americans know, so I don't think we have to show the world that we are so naive and such a sheep that we are dtill respecting this croock. This man was irresponsable enough to turn down all the work that was done by the Republican Party to get the majority in both house and Senate and win the WH and appoint 2 conservatives judges.
After destroying America , he is going to Parasguay, South America why?
Is he affraid to be here after the destruction ?
No, We, the people cannot show the world that we are so ignorant of his crimes that we are his partners, the world must know we are a good people but this NAZIST took control of our principles and our rights.
We have to show everybody what we, the American People stand for.