UPEACE/Geneva
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UPEACE/Geneva eNews,
February 2005, Issue 2005-01

Thanks for reading this issue of UPEACE/Geneva eNews. This newsletter is aimed at providing updates and news from UPEACE and its regional programmes with special focus on the Africa and Central Asia programmes, which are coordinated through the Geneva office. In addition it will provide information on UPEACE publications and new developments, new documents available on the Africa programme, and Workshops/Seminars / Conferences being offered through the Africa and Central Asia programmes.
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Editor: Ameena Payne, Executive Director University for Peace Geneva Office. For further queries please contact enews@upeace.ch

      

Press Release:
Julia Marton-Lefèvre appointed as the University’s new Rector

New York, 27 January 2005. Maurice Strong, Chair of the Council of the University for Peace (UPEACE), who is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, announced today the appointment of Julia Marton-Lefèvre to the position of Rector of UPEACE.
Ms. Marton-Lefèvre, is currently Executive Director of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) International. LEAD is a UK-based global network of individuals and NGOs established on the initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation, committed to fostering
leadership for environment and development through training, dialogue and research. The new Rector will be taking up her new duties on 1 May 2005. She will be replacing Rector Martin Lees who, after five years of highly successful efforts at revitalizing and developing the UN affiliated University for Peace, informed the Council of the University, at its last session in June
2004, of his wish to be relieved of his duties as Rector.

“Ms. Marton- Lefèvre”, said Mr. Strong “is bringing more than thirty years of experience in fields closely related to the purposes of UPEACE. Her experience with the United Nations, with professional organizations and other NGOs, as well as Executive Director of the International
Council for Science (ICSU), will enable her to provide the necessary leadership to build on and consolidate the progress already achieved by the UPEACE team”.

Mr. Strong also noted with great satisfaction that Martin Lees has agreed to continue to serve the University on a part-time basis as Rector Emeritus and Special Advisor. “In his new capacity,Mr. Lees will not only support the new Rector in ensuring a smooth transition, but will also play a key continuing role in contributing to the further expansion and strengthening of UPEACE,particularly in relations with its growing network of strategic partners, financial supporters and the development of new initiatives”, said Mr. Strong. More..

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UPEACE Africa Programme 2004 Progress Report

The UPEACE Africa Programme was established as part
of a recent revitalization of the Costa Rica based University for Peace as a means to strengthen the capacity of African institutions to respond to their own developmental challenges. Prior to the Programme launch, intensive consultative missions were held across the continent to enable Africans to identify their most urgent peace and conflict management needs. In the process, a truly African programme emerged. Through close collaborative efforts with African institutional partners, the Africa Programme has begun an array of activities. The 2004 Progress Report serves to highlight some of these achievements, while also providing a glimpse of future developments.

The report is available in English and in French. Please click here to download an electronic version of the report.

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New Master’s Degree in Environmental Security and Peace: Applications Now Open!

The University for Peace of the United Nations (UPEACE) is pleased to announce that applications are open for the Master’s in Environmental Security and Peace, which will be launched in September 2005 at UPEACE headquarters in Costa Rica. The interface between peace, development and environmental security will be of growing importance in the 21st Century. There is mounting concern over the extent to which environmental degradation is contributing to human insecurity, and how natural resources are increasingly becoming integrated into the political economies of local, regional and global conflicts. The Master’s in Environmental Security and Peace is designed to train skilled and motivated people who fully understand these complex issues and their inter-linkages, and who can undertake high quality research and can develop and implement sound management and policy decisions to strengthen environmental security, promote environmental peacemaking and build the foundations for peace worldwide.

More information and the application for admission can be found online at: www.upeace.org/programmes/esp.cfm

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