Date: Monday 17 November 2014
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: CLM6.02, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Joseph Schwartzberg
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor

Global problems require global solutions. However, the United Nations, as presently constituted, is incapable of addressing many global problems effectively. One nation–one vote decision-making in most UN agencies fails to reflect the distribution of power in the world at large, while the allocation of power in the Security Council is both unfair and anachronistic. Hence, nations are reluctant to endow the UN with the authority and the resources it needs. Extensive reform is essential. In this lecture, Professor Schwartzberg outlines systemic reforms that balance the needs of shareholders and stakeholders in diverse UN agencies and allow the voices of civil society and ordinary citizens to be heard.

Joseph Schwartzberg is a life-long peace and justice activist and has a particular interest in the United Nations system and has published numerous books and articles relating to global governance. Among his publications are Revitalizing the United Nations: Reform through Weighted Voting (Institute for Global Policy - World Federalist Movement, 2004) and Creating a World Parliamentary Assembly: An Evolutionary Journey (Committee for a Democratic UN, 2012). Schwartzberg was a co-founder in 1996 of the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers, a consortium now including more than 80 peace and justice organizations, and has served on the Board of Directors of the World Federalist Association (now GlobalSolutions.org). His academic specialties are the geography of South Asia, political geography, and the history of cartography.

Mary Kaldor is professor of global governance and director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the LSE. She is the author of many books, including The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: Human Security and the Changing Rules of War and Peace, New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era and Global Civil Society: An Answer to War.

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