LIST OF SPEAKERS
FALL 2007

28 September:
Speaker: Jacques Fomerand (UN Ret.)
Introduction to and rationale of the seminar: legitimacy and accountability

5 October:
Speaker: Jonas von Freiesleben, Research Associate, Center for UN Reform Education:
“UN Reform: Where are we heading with the new Secretary-General?”

12 October:
Speaker: Jean Krasno, Yale University
“The Vision of Secretary–General Kofi Annan”

19 October:
Speaker: Nikkil Seth , Director, Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination, DESA, United Nations.
“What does the UN do in economic and social affairs?”

26 October:
Speaker; Mr. Ulrik Ahnfeldt-Morellup (Department of Political Affairs)
“The UN Sanctions regime: the cases of Afghanistan and Al-Qaida”

2 November:
Speaker: Pera Welles, Secretary-General, World Federation of United Nations Associations
“Civil society at the United Nations: The work of WFUNA”

9 November:
Speaker: Francis Dubois, Office of Internal Oversight Services
“Accountability in the United Nations”

16 November:
Speaker: Sharin Saadallah, Division for Arab States, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
“The UN as a field service provider: the work of UNFPA”

SUGGESTED READING

All participants should read Linda Fasullo's An Insider's Guide to the UN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Copies are available in the UN Bookstore.
Participants also should consult a basic text on the United Nations:
> Karen Mingst and Margaret P. Karns. The United Nations in the Post-Cold War Era, Second Edition. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000
> or Thomas Weiss, David Forsythe and Roger Coate. The United Nations and Changing World Politic, Fourth Edition. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004
> or Lawrence Ziring, Robert Riggs, Jack Plano. The United Nations: International Organization and World Politics. Third Edition. New York: Wadsworth, 2000.

For a useful source of information on topical U.N. issues, participants should refer to A Global Agenda: Issues Before the General Assembly, United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, yearly.

To keep up-to-date on current events and issues, participants are encouraged to regularly visit the U.N. website and the U.N. Wire website, an on-line news briefing about the United Nations. Additional reading suggestions will be made as the seminar progresses.