Post-2015 UN Development (eBook, ePUB)

Making Change Happen?
Redaktion: Browne, Stephen; Weiss, Thomas G

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on extensive original research that has critically examined the role and functions of the organizations of the UN development system, this book seeks to capture in a single volume a comprehensive review of the UN's performance and prospects for development. The contributors each offer extensive experience and familiarity-as practitioners and researchers-with the UN and development; and the book will contribute to the urgently needed debate on the reform of the UN development system at a critical juncture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135073688
• Artikelnr.: 41499189

Autorenporträt

Stephen Browne is Co-Director of the Future of the UN Development System (FUNDS) Project and Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The CUNY Graduate Center. He worked for more than 30 years in different organizations of the UN development system, sharing his time almost equally between agency headquarters and country assignments. He has written books and articles on aid and development throughout his career, his most recent being　The United Nations Development Programme and System (2011), The International Trade Centre (2011), and The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (2012). Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York's Graduate Center. He is Past President of the ISA (2009-10). His most recent single-authored books include Global Governance: Why? What? Whither? (2013); Humanitarian Business (2013); What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (2012); and Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action (2012). He is co-editor of the Routledge "Global Institutions Series" and co-director of the Wartime History and the Future United Nations Project and of the Future UN Development System Project.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The UN we want for the world we want
Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss
Part I: The essence of contemporary UN multilateralism
1. UN roles and principles governing multilateral assistance
Bjorn Skogmo 2. Evolution of the UN development system
Craig N. Murphy
3. Drivers of change for the UN's future role
Richard O'Brien Part II: Grappling with the present and future: results
funding
management
4. Funding the UN system
Silke Weinlich 5. Evaluating the UN development system
Robert Picciotto 6. Making the UN more accountable and transparent
Richard Golding Part III: The requirements of war-torn states 7. Aligning UN development efforts and peacebuilding
W. Andy Knight 8. The economics of peace: is the UN system up to the challenge? Graciana del Castillo 9. Can peacebuilding drive the UN change agenda?
Michael von der Schulenburg Part IV: Toward a reformed UN development system 10. The UN and the post-2015 development agenda
David Hulme and Rorden Wilkinson 11. "We the Peoples" in the UN development system
Roberto Bissio 12. Revisiting UN development: the prospects for reform
Cécile Molinier and Stephen Browne Conclusion: Post-2015
making change happen?
Stephen Browne and Thomas G. Weiss