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#7, Oct. 24, 2014
UN
Day 2014
UNA/USA
2014
Ban
Ki-moon, Secretary-General
Words
from Dag Hammarskjold
Beethoven’s
9th Symphony, Dag
Hammarskjold, and United Nations
Bill
Moyers, Film Following the Ninth
J.
William Fulbright on Nationalism and Internationallism
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marginalized and vulnerable. On United Nations Day, I call on Governments and
individuals to work in common cause for the common good. "
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BIOGRAPHY
Ban
Ki-moon is the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations. His priorities
have been to mobilize world leaders around a set of new global challenges, from
climate change and economic upheaval to pandemics and increasing pressures
involving food, energy and water. He has sought to be a bridge-builder, to give
voice to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people, and to strengthen the
Organization itself.
"I
grew up in war", the Secretary-General has said, "and saw the United
Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part
of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am
determined to see this Organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that
advance peace, development and human rights."
Mr.
Ban took office on 1 January 2007. On 21 June 2011, he was unanimously
re-elected by the General Assembly and will continue to serve until 31 December
2016. Highlights of his tenure include:
Promoting
sustainable development
One
of the Secretary-General’s first major initiatives was the 2007 Climate Change
Summit, followed by extensive diplomatic efforts that have helped put the
issue at the forefront of the global agenda. Subsequent efforts to focus on the
world’s main anti-poverty targets, the Millennium Development Goals,
have generated more than $60 billion in pledges, with a special emphasis on
Africa and the new Global Strategy on Women’s and Children’s Health. At the
height of the food, energy and economic crises in 2008, the Secretary-General
successfully appealed to the G20 for a $1 trillion financing package for
developing countries and took other steps to guide the international response
and protect the vulnerable and poor.
Empowering
women
The
Secretary-General pressed successfully for the creation of UN Women, a major new agency that
consolidates the UN’s work in this area. His advocacy for women’s rights and
gender equality has also included the "Unite to End Violence against
Women" campaign, the "Stop
Rape Now" initiative, the creation of a "Network of Men
Leaders" and the establishment of a new Special
Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. Within the UN itself, the
Secretary-General has increased the number of women in senior management
positions by more than 40 per cent, reaching the highest level in the
Organization’s history.
Supporting
countries facing crisis or instability
The
Secretary-General has sought to strengthen UN peace efforts, including through
the New
Horizonspeacekeeping initiative, the Global
Field Support Strategy and the Civilian Capacity Review, a package of
steps to improve the impact of the 120,000 United Nations "blue
helmets" operating in the world’s conflict zones. A mediation support
unit, along with new capacity to carry out the Secretary-General’s good
offices, have been set up to help prevent, manage and resolve tensions,
conflicts and crises. Accountability for violations of human rights has
received high-level attention through inquiries related to Gaza, Guinea, Pakistan
and Sri Lanka, legal processes in Lebanon and Cambodia, and advocacy for the
"responsibility to protect," the new United Nations norm aimed at
prevent and halt genocide and other grave crimes. He has also sought to
strengthen humanitarian response in the aftermath of mega-disasters in Myanmar
(2008), Haiti (2010) and Pakistan (2010), and mobilized UN support for the
democratic transitions in North Africa and the Middle East.
Generating
new momentum on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation
The
Secretary-General has sought to rejuvenate the disarmament agenda through a five-point plan,
efforts to break the deadlock at the Conference on Disarmament and renewed
attention to nuclear safety and security in the aftermath of the tragedy at the
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Strengthening
the UN
The
Secretary-Generalhas introduced new measures aimed
at making the United Nations more transparent, effective and efficient. These
include heightened financial disclosure requirements, compacts with senior
managers, harmonization of business practices and conditions of service, the
adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards, and continued
investments in information technology and staff development.
Personal
The
Secretary-General was born in the Republic of Korea on 13 June 1944. He
received a bachelor's degree in international relations from Seoul National
University in 1970. In 1985, he earned a master's degree in public
administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
At
the time of his election as Secretary-General, Mr. Ban was his country's
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His 37 years of service with the
Ministry included postings in New Delhi, Washington D.C. and Vienna, and
responsibility for a variety of portfolios, including Foreign Policy Adviser to
the President, Chief National Security Adviser to the President, Deputy
Minister for Policy Planning and Director-General of American Affairs.
Mr.
Ban’s ties to the United Nations date back to 1975, when he worked for the
Foreign Ministry's United Nations Division. That work expanded over the years,
with assignments that included service as Chairman of the Preparatory
Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization and Chef
de Cabinet during the Republic of Korea's 2001-2002 presidency of the UN
General Assembly. Mr. Ban has also been actively involved in issues relating to
inter-Korean relations.
The
Secretary-General speaks English, French and Korean. He and his wife, Madam Yoo
(Ban) Soon-taek, whom he met in high school in 1962, have one son, two
daughters and three grandchildren. Since 2007, Mrs. Ban has devoted her
attention to women’s and children’s health, including autism, the elimination
of violence against women, and the campaign to prevent mother-to-child
transmission of HIV/AIDS.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
For
“the vast majority of mankind. . . .the United Nations is a symbol” of “the
guarantee that there is sense in the world and that there is equity in the
world. . . .How great our moral responsibility is, and how endless the demands.
. . for devotion and for the giving out of all we possibly can.” Quoted in Hammarskjold:
A Life by Roger Lipsey, 247. See
OMNI’s Hammarskjold Newsletter Oct. 19, 2013.
Ideals
of a Better World
“I
do not believe in the possibility of such cooperation as we are engaged in
without the deep inspiration of faith in ideals which we all share. “’Ideals’ in itself is a general word. What I mean here are the ideals established
by our deepest faith and highest longings. . . .What is achieved on our long
road toward a better world is achieved in cooperation between all men of good
will truly dedicated as participants in a joint worldwide effort.” Dag
Hammarskjold by Roger Lipsey, p. 325.
One
World?
Hammarskjold
“perceived in [Ahmed Bokhari, UN under-secretary for public information]…what
Bokhari had once called for—‘a new comradeship, a universal fellowship, a world
communion.’” “If Hammarskjold had an
impossible dream, it was not world government, as some have baselessly claimed.
. . .It was the dream he shared with Bokhari of an emerging global culture suspended
from the ‘great traditions’” Bokhari
“reflected in his personality the possibility of a synthesis of great
traditions on which it is the task of our generation to build one world.” Lipsey, p. 363).
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Dag
Hammarskjold, and United Nations, Google Search, Oct. 20, 2014
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United
Nations
"IT
IS THE TRADITION that the Organization marks United Nations Day with a concert including the final
movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Today we ...
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United
Nations
The
Philadelphia Orchestra played Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as it
had done on United Nations Day 1960. The speech made by Dag Hammarskjöld on 24 ...
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United
Nations
Dag Hammarskjöld was the Secretary General of the United Nations from 1953 ... of Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony, which was a favourite of Mr. Hammarskjold's.
BILL
MOYERS & CO.
Following
the Ninth
November
15, 2013
This
week Bill previews the new film Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final
Symphony, a documentary exploring the worldwide cultural and political
influence of Beethoven’s masterpiece and its majestic “Ode to Joy.”
The
film follows the Ninth Symphony to cultures around the world, telling the story
of its impact in countries at critical inflection points in history including
Germany, China and Chile.
The
2012 book Journeys With Beethoven, written with The
Nation’s Greg Mitchell, was inspired by the film, Following
the Ninth, produced and directed by Kerry Candaele. Producer: Danielle Varga. Editor:
Sikay Tan.
J.
WILLIAM FULBRIGHT ON NATIONALISM and INTERNATIONALISM
“A new idea has sprung up out of the ashes of two World
Wars: the idea that the sovereign nation
can no longer serve as the ultimate unit of personal loyalty and
responsibility. We have begun to perceive
that our happiness and prosperity, and perhaps even our survival, may depend on
whether we allow the West to succumb once again to divisive and destructive
nationalism. . . .” Old Myths and New Realities (108).
Randall
Woods, Fulbright Internationalism, Abstract
Annals
of the American Academy of Political and Social Science © 1987 American
Academy of Political and Social Science ANNALS, AAPSS,
491, May 1987.
Abstract:
In
1946 Senator J. William Fulbright introduced and guided through Congress
legislation establishing an international exchange program in education. The
Fulbright program, which has produced the largest migration of students and
scholars in modern history, was the result first of the senator's personal
experience. His goal was to make available to thousands the enlightening
experience of foreign study and travel he had enjoyed as a Rhodes scholar. The
exchange legislation was also an integral part of the internationalist movement
that swept America in the mid-1940s. Finally, Fulbright's brainchild was a
result of his disillusionment with America's diplomatic leadership and his
determination to raise up an educated, sophisticated elite capable of guiding
the nation and the world
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1045055?uid=3739536&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104979741583
www.wilsoncenter.or...
Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars
Apr
1, 2014 - Senator J. William Fulbright and
President Lyndon B. Johnson meet at the White House, ... Liberal Internationalism and
U.S. Global Influence.
blaircenter.uark.edu/8247.php
Blair
Center Legacy Conference 2015. Call for Papers: J. William
Fulbright in International Perspective: Liberal Internationalism and
U.S. Global Influence
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