- The United Nations University and the University of Tokyo co-hosted the 2024 Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Annual Meeting.
Tokyo/New York, August 2, 2024 — Two esteemed institutions, the United Nations University and the University of Tokyo, co-hosted the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Annual Meeting 2024.
The 2024 ACUNS Annual Meeting provided a crucial platform for practitioners and scholars worldwide to explore the urgent theme of ‘Global Governance and Sustainable Development: Revitalizing Research to Support Multilateral Solutions.’
Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector of the United Nations University, delivered the Opening Keynote Address on “Multilateral Solutions through Research, Technology, and Innovation.”
Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, presented the ACUNS Lecture on “Reclaiming the Right to Peace.”
Professor Lise Morje Howard, Former President of the Academic Council on the United Nations System and Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University, USA, delivered the John W. Holmes Memorial Lecture on “The UN Security Council in Interstate War.”
Pedro Conceicao, Director of the Human Development Report Office at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), discussed “The Human Development Journey: Open-ended and Open-armed.”
The speakers and participants at the event represented prestigious universities and institutions worldwide. Here are some examples:
Daniel Plesch from the University of London, UK
Courtney Smith from Seton Hall University, USA
Katelyn Cassin from the University of Ottawa, Canada
Antonia Zervaki from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Inken Von Borzyskowski from Oxford University, UK
Antonios Saravanos from New York University, USA
Maya Prabhu from Yale University, USA
Karen Lancaster-Ellis from the University of the West Indies
Pamela Robinson from Case Western Reserve University, USA
Esther Weir from the University of Nottingham, UK
Des Gasper from Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Santosh Kumar Singh from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Zeba Rayee from Zakir Hussain Delhi College, University of Delhi, India
The closing ceremony featured speeches by distinguished individuals, including Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, Rector of the United Nations University and UN Under-Secretary-General; Professor Atsuko Kawakita, Vice Dean (International Affairs) at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo; and Prof. (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University, an ‘Institution of Eminence’ based in Sonipat, Haryana, India.
Source: The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS)
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