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. These essays will provide new insights and focus for understanding internal violence and its cultural connections to a broad audience of scholars, policy makers, and students of international politics and culture.

The Culture of Violence

This publication examines advances in underlying well-being, poverty, and inequality concepts and corresponding empirical applications and case studies, including traditional monetary concepts and measurements and non-monetary factors including educational achievement, longevity, health, and subjective well-being.

Understanding Human Well-being

World Health Organization

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

This publication contains information on the expert consultation which took place in October 2001 in Rome, Italy, organised by the FAO in conjunction with the WHO and the United Nations University, to consider human energy requirements of populations throughout the life cycle and to make dietary energy recommendations. The report includes a CD-ROM with software and instruction manual on calculating population energy requirements and food needs.

Report of a Joint FAO/WHO/UNU Expert Consultation : Rome, 17-24 October 2001

Human Energy Requirements

Selected Papers Presented at a Workshop Held in Kuala Lumpur, 17-21 September 1985

Agricultural Expansion and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics

This book examines a range of issues related to the mega-city phenomenon. Part one deals with the growth of mega-cities and explores demographic issues, labour force change in the big cities of Asia, the effect of macroeconomic forces on the world city system, and the relations between technology and the city. In part two, the discussion focuses on the economic and social consequences of mega-city growth. Part three looks at the crucial issue of the management of mega-cities, taking up such issues as infrastructure financing, land and shelter needs, transportation, and environmental management. The final chapter examines priority urban management issues in developing countries and derives a research agenda for the 1990s. (Adapté du résumé de l'éditeur).

Mega-city Growth and the Future

Michael Ignatieff

Simon Chesterman

Ramesh Chandra Thakur

This publication is the result of a joint interdisciplinary project of the International Peace Academy and the United Nations University. It focuses on situations when state structures begin to break down or collapse, encompassing a range of crises from states in which basic public services are neglected to the total collapse of governance. It looks at the roles and responsibilities of key actors in the situation in relation to their own populations and the international community, and considers the lessons that can be drawn from a range of countries to develop effective strategies to address such situations.

State Failure and the Crisis of Governance

Making States Work

Military and police forces play a crucial role in the long-term success of rebuilding efforts in post-conflict societies. Yet, while charged with the long-term task of providing a security environment conducive to rebuilding war-torn societies, internal security structures tend to lack civilian and democratic control, internal cohesion and effectiveness, and public credibility. They must be placed under democratic control and restructured and retrained to become an asset, not a liability, in the long-term peacebuilding process. External actors from other nations, regional organizations, and the United Nations can be of assistance in this process by creating a basic security environment, preventing remnants of armed groups from spoiling the fragile peacebuilding process, and by facilitating reform of the local security sector. This book offers examples and analyses by an international group of academics and practitioners with direct experiences with security sector reform programs. "The case studies offer the reader a useful laboratory in which comparisons can be made and observations tested. It will be useful to policymakers interested in understanding the complexity of addressing security sector reform and civil-military relations."--W. Andy Knight, University of Alberta, Canada.

Security Sector Reform and Post-conflict Peacebuilding

The principles, values, and manifestations of multilateralism, including the United Nations, are under sustained scrutiny and assault. Their performance and effectiveness are questioned, as are their decisionmaking procedures and their representation, according to 21st-century standards of accountability and democracy. All of this has a corrosive effect on their legitimacy. Multilateralism under Challenge? explores the performance and future of multilateral approaches and institutions with reference to major global problems such as terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, HIV/AIDS, environmental sustainability, economic justice, human rights, and humanitarian assistance. Multilateralism is an essential component of international life, as the contributions to this volume clearly demonstrate. We need to make multilateralism more effective and more accountable, to be sure. This book advances constructive ideas on how to do just that. --John G. Ruggie, Harvard University

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