Topic:

United Nations Reform

The presentation will be organized into three parts:

• Part I: Who is the United Nations? Historically, what has reform meant?
• Part II: Reforms in the field of peace and security — a comparison of the reports of the Secretaries-General:
  June 1992 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali's "An Agenda for Peace"
  Dec. 2004 – Kofi Annan's Panel's "A More Secure World"
• Part III: Details of the December 2004 Panel Report

Speakers:

Dan Figgins, Professor at NCSU, & Jamie Pendergrass, a former student of Dr. Figgins

Jamie Pendergrass was born and raised in Henderson, North Carolina, graduating from Northern Vance High School in 2000 and from NC State University in 2004 with a B.S. in Political Science. He studied in three of Dr. Figgins' courses, U.S. Foreign Policy, Introduction to International Law, and most recently The United Nations and Global Order. He wrote an expert paper on the tenets of current U.S. foreign policy from the 1997 Project for a New American Century through the June 1, 2002, George W. Bush graduation address at West Point to the September 2002 National Security Strategy.

Professor Dan Figgins has been a member of the United Nations Association since being a high-school Model UN participant. He attended Grinnell College and did graduate work at Syracuse University. An internship with the International Organizations Bureau in the US Department of State led to his later joining the US Foreign Service; his first assignment was in the U.S. Mission to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva. Fourteen years of his 25-year Foreign Service career were spent at U.S. Missions to United Nations Organizations — besides Geneva, he lived in New York City and was a delegate to the General Assembly, he negotiated frequently in Vienna, Austria with the UN Industrial Development Organization, and he also lived in Montreal, Canada, seat of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and in Nairobi, Kenya, headquarters of the UN Environment Program. He also had regular Foreign Service tours in Argentina, Peru, Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico.

Date and Time

Tuesday, June 21^th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Place:

NC State University Club, off Hillsborough Avenue just north of the Beltline (there's a sign).
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Meal & Price:

A choice of a chicken dinner or a vegetable plate, both with dessert, salad and bread or rolls — all for $15 (except it's $7 for students & low income).

Reservations and Information:

To reserve the meal of your choice, call or e-mail Jim Roush [850-9696 or JLRoush@aol.com] or Ed Klemmer [847-7992 or erklemmer@earthlink.net] by noon Friday, June 17^th. To save time at the door, please send your check made out to UNA/Wake Co. to

J.L. Roush,
8204 Gresham Trace Lane,
Raleigh, NC 27615

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