UNSA Dialogues

Background

As a follow-up to our Bonn seminar in June 2008, we started to hold monthly conference calls in early October 2008 to discuss a common concept of UN studies, and other related questions to UN Studies such as innovative research and successful teaching tools. Our discussions are open to all UNSA members and certainly to other interested parties.

You are warmly invited to suggest any issue concerning UN Studies you deem worth discussing. This can be any research or teaching issue you come across or actual UN policy aspects that you would like to  discuss with others. Please email us your suggestions.

Upcoming Dialogue

We will resume our dialogue series in March 2011. For more information click here.

Past dialogues

• January 2009 Dialogue.
• Special conference call on UNSA activities in 2009, Thursday, March 26.
• October 2008 Dialogue
• November 2008 Dialogue
• December 2008

Suggested issues for future discussions

• Is the position of the SG and his role in maintening international peace and security compromised when it comes to North Korea because of Ban Ki-moon's own nationality?
• Metacategories for perspectives on the UN: during our Bonn seminar, we established basic "meta"-categories for all possible views and perspectives on the UN. Such basic, ontological categories are: "formal/ informal", "inside /outside", "parts/whole",
• Epistemic Concepts: the UN can be studied applying epistemic concepts, such as leadership, bureaucracy, management, organizational learning
• other issues as mentioned in our mission statement.

Access Information and Participation

Access: As we use different communication formats (telephone conferences or online conferences), please check this site in anticipation to every meeting to see what tools and access codes are needed.

Participation: you are welcome to listen or actively engage into the discussions; please feel encouraged to come up with new possible discussion topics and questions. At the end of each session we will fix the date and the issue of our next dialogue. Besides you are always welcome to contact Henrike or Julia for any proposed discussion topic or if you wish to organize and moderate a dialogue session.