Irrelevant or Indispensable?: The United Nations in the Twenty-first Century

Notes on Contributors

Lloyd Axworthy is the President of the University of Winnipeg and a Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General to facilitate a peaceful resolution to the dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Mr. Axworthy has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada and a Member of Canadian Parliament. He has also served as Minister of Employment and Immigration and Minister of Transport. He has won the CARE International Humanitarian Award and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the campaign for the elimination of anti-personnel landmines. Nitin Desai is Honorary Professor at the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. Formerly, he held the position of Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs at the UN. Jayantha Dhanapala is a former UN Under-Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs (1998–2003) and a former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the US (1995–1997). He is currently a Senior Adviser to the President of Sri Lanka and Secretary General of the Secretariat for the Co-ordinating of the Peace Process. Tom Farer is the Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is also the former President of the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States and of the University of New Mexico. He is an Honorary Professor of Peking University and permanent Guest Professor of People’s NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 189 University and Director of the Center for China-United States Cooperation . He has served as special assistant first to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense and then to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Shepard Forman is Director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. Prior to founding the Center, he directed the Human Rights and Governance and International Affairs programs at the Ford Foundation. He has served on the faculty at Indiana University, the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan; conducted field research in Brazil and East Timor; and authored two books on Brazil and numerous articles, including papers on humanitarian assistance and post-conflict reconstruction assistance. Louise Fréchette is the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations. She was Canadian Deputy Minister of National Defence from 1995 to 1998 and Associate Deputy Minister in the Department of Finance. She served as Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations from 1992 to 1995. Patricia Goff is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and Special Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. She is co-editor with Kevin C. Dunn of Identity and Global Politics (Palgrave, 2004). Lord David Hannay is a member of the House of Lords. He sat on the United Nations High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. He served as Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and United Kingdom Special Envoy to Cyprus. He has served as Minister at the British Embassy in Washington, Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the European Community (EC), Chef de Cabinet for Sir Christopher Soames (Vice-President of the Commission of the EC), Assistant Under-Secretary of State (European Community ) at the Foreign Office, and first secretary of the UK negotiating team for entry into the EC. Paul Heinbecker is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Director of the Laurier Centre for Global Relations, Governance and Policy. He was Canada’s Ambassador to the UN (2000-2003), where he supported the creation of the International Criminal Court and advocated for compromise on Iraq. Previous positions include chief foreign policy advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney, Ambassador to Germany, and Minister in Washington. 190 notes on contributors Bruce Jones is Deputy to the Special Advisor on Follow-up on the UN High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. In 2004, he served as Deputy Research Director for the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, in addition to being Deputy Director for the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. He was previously Chief of staff in the UN’s political mission in the Middle East, and held other UN assignments in Kosovo and New York. He has written extensively on peacekeeping and post-conflict operations. Keith...