Report on World 87, External Relations Authority
We know that you are familiar with all the main features of this system and its remarkable population, including the general aspects of its physical and biological development and its conscious history. You are also aware of the general features...
Sri Lanka’s hollow victory, Meenakshi Ganguly
The problem with running a disingenuous military campaign is that victory is never as sweet as it should have been. In a world on alert against bombings and gunmen randomly attacking civilians, the Sri Lankan government had expected to be...
Baghdad, the UN, and America , Johanna Mendelson Forman
The sixth anniversary since a bomb of August silenced the United Nations voice in Baghdad is a moment for commemoration of and tribute to the twenty-two people who lost their lives, and the approximately 150 who were wounded. It is also more: for...
ETA and the Basque labyrinth , Guy Hedgecoe
Much has changed in Spain's Basque Country over the three and a half decades since dictator Francisco Franco died in November 1975. The huge, titanium-plated Guggenheim museum on the banks of the river Nervión in Bilbao, designed by Frank...
A death in Baghdad , Gil Loescher
One year ago, on 19 August 2003, a suicide bomber attacked the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. The results were devastating. Twenty-two people were killed: fifteen United Nations officials – among them the UN special envoy, Sergio Vieira...
A world of dignity, Sergio Vieira de Mello
In discussing world civilisation – whatever that may mean – it is important to remember those who have suffered as a result of a breakdown of civilisation. We must also pay tribute to, and really think hard about, the women, men and children...
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