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Projects, Ideas and Issues

This section provides an overview of all projects and innovative ideas on teaching and research about the UN.

We have added a "social tagging" feature to our wiki and started to "tag" some of our articles, i.e. we assigned key words to each articles that define and describe the content (so-called meta-data). We hope that users of our wiki portal will continue this work. All existing tags are displayed in the tag cloud below. This tag cloud is a major indicator of key content of our wiki portal (as valued by our users). Popular tags are tags that have been assigned very often; they appear in a larger font size than less prominent ones. If you click on a specific tag, you will receive a list of articles containing this tag.
ACUNS, concept, conference, criminal_justice, Diplomatic_Academy, education, generational viewpoints, human_rights, interdisciplinarity, journal, knowledge_about_UN, leadership, legal, ontology, peace, peacekeeping, perspectives_on_UN, practitioners, project, reform, regions, research, Secretary-General, social_network, summer school, supranational_ideas, teaching, technology, theory, tutorial, UN_Charter, wiki

We have added a "social tagging" feature to our wiki and started to "tag" some of our articles, i.e. we assigned key words to each articles that define and describe the content (so-called meta-data). We hope that users of our wiki portal will continue this work.

All existing tags are displayed in the tag cloud below. This tag cloud is a major indicator of key content of our wiki portal (as valued by our users). Popular tags are tags that have been assigned very often; they appear in a larger font size than less prominent ones. If you click on a specific tag, you will receive a list of articles containing this tag.

ACUNS, concept, conference, criminal_justice, Diplomatic_Academy, education, generational viewpoints, human_rights, interdisciplinarity, journal, knowledge_about_UN, leadership, legal, ontology, peace, peacekeeping, perspectives_on_UN, practitioners, project, reform, regions, research, Secretary-General, social_network, summer school, supranational_ideas, teaching, technology, theory, tutorial, UN_Charter, wiki

In the future, we will use these tags to better refine our clusters of issues we wish to concentrate on, e.g. in the framework of creating a CyberShelf with reference material for practitioners who teach.

As of now, there are five loose clusters around which we initially center our activities:

Projects, Ideas and Issues

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

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!

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I	Attachment	Action	Size	Date	Who	Comment
png	Overview_WG_UN_Studies.png	manage	142.0 K	14 Aug 2007 - 22:06	HenrikePaepcke
pdf	UN_Studies_at_UK_universities.pdf	manage	43.1 K	09 Nov 2007 - 18:25	KirstenHaack	UN Studies at UK universities

Topic revision: r32 - 11 Jan 2009 - 11:45:32 - HenrikePaepcke

Main.ProjectsIssues moved from Main.ProjectsActivities on 14 Aug 2007 - 19:48 by HenrikePaepcke - put it back

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