2017
2016
37th Annual Multifaith Service & Conference for Peace- "Preventing a New Nuclear Arms Race!"
Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 11:00 AM
Princeton University Chapel
Imam Sohaib Sultan, Muslim Life Coordinator and Chaplain at Princeton University, will deliver the opening sermon. The Multifaith Service is free and open to the public.
The Conference for Peace will be held from 1:30-5:00 PM in Guyot Hall, Room 10 (Click here for a University map). Full event details are available at Coalition for Peace Action's website, here.
*** The Princeton-Trenton Area Chapter is a co-sponsor of this conference, organized by the Coalition for Peace Action. ***
The Conference for Peace will be held from 1:30-5:00 PM in Guyot Hall, Room 10 (Click here for a University map). Full event details are available at Coalition for Peace Action's website, here.
*** The Princeton-Trenton Area Chapter is a co-sponsor of this conference, organized by the Coalition for Peace Action. ***
Up to the Minute Panel: The Global Refugee Crisis
Monday, October 24th, 4:30-6:00 [UN Day] in Robertson Hall Bowl 016 at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School
The skyrocketing numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons across the globe, estimated by the United Nations at 65 million worldwide, have shaken the European Union, roiled American politics and fueled calls for external military intervention in certain conflicts.
The causes of this refugee crisis, as well as the politics behind international assistance, will be addressed at this “Up to the Minute” panel.
Ninette Kelley, director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and formerly the head of the UNHCR mission in Lebanon, will explore the drivers of these refugee flows and the difficulties in mustering effective international assistance.
In response, the Woodrow Wilson School's Frederick Barton will address the politics behind refugee funding and impulses for other forms of international intervention. Barton is former assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations at the U.S. Department of State, former UNHCR deputy high commissioner, the highest-ranking American in the agency and co-director of the Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative at Princeton.
Jeffrey Laurenti MPA ’74, former executive director of policy studies for the United Nations Association of the United States of America, will moderate the panel.
The causes of this refugee crisis, as well as the politics behind international assistance, will be addressed at this “Up to the Minute” panel.
Ninette Kelley, director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and formerly the head of the UNHCR mission in Lebanon, will explore the drivers of these refugee flows and the difficulties in mustering effective international assistance.
In response, the Woodrow Wilson School's Frederick Barton will address the politics behind refugee funding and impulses for other forms of international intervention. Barton is former assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations at the U.S. Department of State, former UNHCR deputy high commissioner, the highest-ranking American in the agency and co-director of the Scholars in the Nation's Service Initiative at Princeton.
Jeffrey Laurenti MPA ’74, former executive director of policy studies for the United Nations Association of the United States of America, will moderate the panel.
“Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring” w/ Zaid Al-Ali
Tuesday March 1, 5:30-7:00 PM
The Roscoe Annex (TCNJ)
Tuesday March 1, 5:30-7:00 PM
The Roscoe Annex (TCNJ)
2015
1st Annual Adlai E. Stevenson Award
Human Rights Day - December 10, 2015
Bowl 2 of Robertson Hall of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University - Princeton, NJ
Human Rights Day - December 10, 2015
Bowl 2 of Robertson Hall of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University - Princeton, NJ
Human rights advocate and United Nations official Juan E. Méndez received the 2015 Adlai Stevenson Award for a career of service to the global community on Thursday, December 10 at 4:30 PM in Bowl 2 of Robertson Hall at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs. The Princeton-Trenton Area Chapter of the United Nations Association (UNA-USA) presented the award in memory of former U.S. Ambassador to the UN and Princeton alumnus Adlai E. Stevenson II.
More info here:
http://www.unausa.org/calendar/event/the-2015-adlai-stevenson-award
Video recording of the event:
https://lapa.princeton.edu/content/2015-adlai-stevenson-award
More info here:
http://www.unausa.org/calendar/event/the-2015-adlai-stevenson-award
Video recording of the event:
https://lapa.princeton.edu/content/2015-adlai-stevenson-award
2014
2013
Human Rights Day with the Princeton-Trenton Chapter
Human Rights Day - December 10, 2013
Bowl 016 of Robertson Hall of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University - Princeton, NJ
Human Rights Day - December 10, 2013
Bowl 016 of Robertson Hall of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University - Princeton, NJ
On December 10, which is the International Day of Human Rights, the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies of Princeton University hosted a panel discussion on “Justice: Faces of the Human Rights Revolution” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Rm. 016 of Robertson Hall of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
The Princeton-Trenton Area chapter of UNA-USA co-sponsored the event.
This event coincided with an exhibition of photographic portraits of the same name in the Bernstein Gallery of the building.
More information here:
http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/events/item/justice-faces-human-rights-revolution-0
http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/events/item/justice-faces-human-rights-revolution
The Princeton-Trenton Area chapter of UNA-USA co-sponsored the event.
This event coincided with an exhibition of photographic portraits of the same name in the Bernstein Gallery of the building.
More information here:
http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/events/item/justice-faces-human-rights-revolution-0
http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/events/item/justice-faces-human-rights-revolution
Haiti's Earthquake Relief and Recovery Experience
April 17, 2013
The Bobst Center, 83 Prospect Ave., Princeton, NJ
April 17, 2013
The Bobst Center, 83 Prospect Ave., Princeton, NJ
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that our chapter is collaborating with the Innovations for Successful Societies (ISS) research program of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (WWS) and of its Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, to co-sponsor a talk on April 17 on Haiti's earthquake relief and recovery experience by Amb. (Rt.) Tim Carney. The ISS program supports public servants who lead institutional reform in their countries; see http://www.princeton.edu/successfulsocieties.
The ISS director is WWS political scientist Dr. Jennifer Widner, who teaches a WWS graduate level course for foreign and US practitioners of effective institutional reform entitled “Making Government Work in Hard Places”.
The discussion, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, will be addressed to the students in her course. The day’s topic is response to emergencies where existing institutions have low capacity, opening with a discussion of Indonesia's BRR-Aceh case and what made assistance work effectively in the aftermath of the tsunami.
Then Tim Carney, former U.S. ambassador to Haiti and former executive vice president of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, will speak about how the post-earthquake response unfolded in Haiti - what worked and did not work, and why. During the last hour he will respond to further questions about Haiti's present situation.
We are pleased to announce that our chapter is collaborating with the Innovations for Successful Societies (ISS) research program of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (WWS) and of its Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, to co-sponsor a talk on April 17 on Haiti's earthquake relief and recovery experience by Amb. (Rt.) Tim Carney. The ISS program supports public servants who lead institutional reform in their countries; see http://www.princeton.edu/successfulsocieties.
The ISS director is WWS political scientist Dr. Jennifer Widner, who teaches a WWS graduate level course for foreign and US practitioners of effective institutional reform entitled “Making Government Work in Hard Places”.
The discussion, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, will be addressed to the students in her course. The day’s topic is response to emergencies where existing institutions have low capacity, opening with a discussion of Indonesia's BRR-Aceh case and what made assistance work effectively in the aftermath of the tsunami.
Then Tim Carney, former U.S. ambassador to Haiti and former executive vice president of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, will speak about how the post-earthquake response unfolded in Haiti - what worked and did not work, and why. During the last hour he will respond to further questions about Haiti's present situation.
Left Behind: The United Nations in Post-Transition Afghanistan
April 9, 2013
Room 016 of Robertson Hall of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University - Princeton, NJ
April 9, 2013
Room 016 of Robertson Hall of the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University - Princeton, NJ
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to inform chapter members that, in collaboration with Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (WWS) and its Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD), we are co-sponsoring a talk on Tuesday, April 09, 2013, by Afghanistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Zahir Tanin. http://www.afghanistan-un.org/permanent-representative/biography/
It will begin at 4:30 pm in Bowl 16 of Robertson Hall of the WWS.
Given the transition in military and some civilian governance responsibilities currently occurring in Afghanistan as U.S. and other countries' military forces withdraw, this talk by Dr. Tanin could not be more important and timely.
Some members will recall with appreciation Dr. Tanin's participation in the lively and informative panel discussion of key issues before the UNSC this year at the UNA-USA Members Day conference held at the UN last February.
More info here:
https://lisd.princeton.edu/events/left-behind-united-nations-post-transition-afghanistan
Press release from Afghanistan's Permanent Mission to the United Nations:
http://afghanistan-un.org/2013/04/ambassador-tanin-addresses-students-at-princeton-university/