Projects, Ideas and Issues

This section provides an overview of all projects and innovative ideas on teaching and research about the UN. As of now, there are five loose clusters around which we wish to center our activities (for an overview of our 2008-09 activities, please refer to our UN Studies Working Group's discussion in Bonn on June 5):

Framing a concept of UN Studies

Some of the questions our working group addresses in order to draw a core concept of UN Studies (see ConceptUnstudies):

• What are problems, challenges and shortcomings in current UN-related research and teaching?
• Why is there a need for a coherent, encompassing field of UN Studies?
• What is the purpose of UN Studies?
• What could be distinguisihing features of a future field of UN Studies?
• What issues, topics, approaches, theories (content) shall it comprise?

Research and Teaching

• State of the art - UN study programs world-wide (see also SeminarOverviewPrograms)
  • UN Studies Initiative (US)
  • UK-based UN-related studies
  • UN Studies in Austria
  • UN Studies in Germany
• Model approaches for research and teaching
• Teaching methods and tools
  • TeachingToolsFilms (upcoming)
  • InnovativeTeachingTechniques for the Rule of Law is collecting best practice at for a Handbook.
• Training material, Syllabi, Textbooks
• UN Environmental History Project
• Comparative analysis of EU and UN studies ?
• international public service / role of international secretariats
• UN and global governance studies
• PhD Corner

Publication series

• Textbook on UN
• Journal of IO Studies
  • Discussion Forum on the JIOS

Engaging the younger generation by means of new technologies

• The role of wiki technology
• Internet governance and the role of technology in training the next generation

Conferences, workshops, seminars

please see MeetingsSeminars

Comments or new ideas? - Propose and discuss your ideas with other members!