Minerva Minerva is a ten-year-old twice-yearly journal, now supported by the World Federalist Institute of Citizens for Global Solutions. It is named in honor of one of the four women signers of the United Nations Charter, Minerva Bernardino, who helped found the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
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Minerva, vol 35, November 2009
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EDITORIAL SPECULATION: Political Animals
- Thesil Morlan
Moving Forward Step by Step and Leap by Leap
- Lucy Law Webster
Achieving Nonproliferation Goals:
- Elizabeth Turpen
Maybe We Should Take the North Koreans At Their Word
- Tad Daley
DIALOGUE: Obama and Nukes:
- David Krieger &
Nuclear Weapons Are an Effect
- Ronald J. Glossop
World Peace Through Law:
- James T. Ranney
Linkage and Leverage in International Affairs
- Michael Rose
Democracy’s Failing Light —
- Arundhati Roy
BOOK REVIEW: Global Exceptionalism
- Robert A. Enholm
Responsibility to Protect:
- Douglas Wilson
New Instruments for Addressing Fragile Nations
- Michael Kraig
Universal Weighted Regional Representation
- Joseph E. Schwartzberg
UPDATE: Gender Equality Architecture Reform
INTERVIEW: Women’s Rights
- Masum Momaya
Human Rights Council Concern Open Letter from NGOs
Global Arms Trade Treaty Arms Control Campaign
- James Carroll
Minerva, vol 34, May 2009
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Editorial Comment: Planetary Kintsugi
- Thesil Morlan
- Lucy Law Webster
Exploring Concepts: Human Security & Peacebuilding
- Covadonga Morales Bertrand
Human Rights and the Responsibility to Protect
- Louise Fréchette
Book Review: Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention, by Gary J. Bass, Princeton University
- Christianna Nichols-Leahy
No Funding for Peace Talks Unless Women Are at the Table
- Stephen Lewis
Interview: Time for New UN Women’s Agency ~ Stephen Lewis, McMaster University
- Nergui Manalsuren
Building a UN That Really Works for All Women
- GEAR
Interview: Women’s Rights in an Economic Crisis ~ Yakin Ertürk, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women
- Jane Gabriel
Interview: Global Gender Gap Index ~ Saadia Zahidi, Associate Director, Head of Constituents, World Economic Forum
- Miren Gutierrez
A United Nations Parliamentary Assembly: Basic Ideas and Current Points of Discussion
- Claudia Kissling
A UN Parliamentary Assembly Debate
- Danielle D’Apice
Book Review: The Global Commonwealth of Citizens, by Daniele Archibugi
- Ronald J. Glossop
Revised Human Rights Structures at the UN
The United Nations Human Rights Council ~ A Humble Beginning; A Bold Responsibility for Humanity
Universal Periodic Review ~ An Innovation of the UN Human Rights Council; An Invitation for Genuine Dialogue Among Governments & Global Civil Society
The UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee ~ More than Advice, Less Than Advocacy, So Far
- Joshua Cooper
HRC & Defamation of Religions Controversy
- WLUML
An SOS for the Human Race - summary of Securing Our Survival (SOS): The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention
- IPPNW
The Next 100 Project - executive summary of Leveraging National Security Assistance to Meet Developing World Needs
- Brian Finlay
- Walter Hoffmann
Minerva, vol 33
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Part 1: (643KB) Strategic Tessellation by Thesil Morlan
A Conceptual Framework for Human Security by Sabina Alkire
Human Security: The Seven Challenges of Operationalizing the Concept by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
Part 2: (1.98MB) The Responsibility to Protect: From an Ethical Principle to an Effective Policy by Juan Garrigues
R2P and the Nargis Quandary by Anil Raj
R2P, Georgia, and Civil Society by Denelle Burns
Part 3: (995KB) The "Responsibility to Protect" and Unilateral Humanitarian Interventions: An Emerging Legal Doctrine? by Ethan Cramer-Flood
The United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect by Edward C. Luck
Part 4: (484KB) Interview: MDGs in Jeopardy Inés Alberdi by Miren Gutierrez
The Accra HLF3: Any Closer to Development Effectiveness? by Kathambi Kinoti
Gender Equity Architecture at UN by Rochelle Jones
Gender Training for Peacekeepers: Preliminary Overview of UN Peace Support Operations by Minna Lyytikäinen
Part 5: (902KB) The Future of Gender Justice: The Work of the ICC and Other Bodies by Brigid Inder
Article Review: AMICC’s Analysis of "The New Humanitarian Order" by Mahmood Mamdani by Veronica Glick
On Seeking Shelter from the ICC by Diane Marie Amann
Letter to the Editor by Ronald J. Glossop
Minerva, vol 32
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Part 1: (1.88 MB) Security: The New Paradigm of Interconnectedness by Nafis Sadik
Overcoming Wars and Empire by Incentivizing Justice and Democracy by Lucy Law Webster
Part 2: (682k) The Responsibility to Protect: Catchphrase or Cornerstone of International Relations? by Ingrid Harder
Part 3: (591k) The Responsibility to Protect and the ICC: America's New Priorities by Kelly Whitley
Letter supporting the establishment of the United Nations Emergency Peace Service
International Justice and the Challenge of Enforcement by Fatou Bensouda
Justice as an Essential Component of Peace by Karen Odaba Mosoti
Part 4: (359k) The Economics of Insecurity by Caroline Thomas
An EU Covenant on the Right to Water: An Idea Whose Time has Come by Maude Barlow
Part 5: (772k) BOOK REVIEW: Lydia Swart and Estelle Perry's Global Enviornmental Governance, Perspectives on the Current Debate reviewed by Marquita K. Hill
BOOK REVIEW: James A. Yunker's Political Globalization: A New Vision of Federal World Government reviewed by Ronald J. Glossop
BOOK DISCUSSION: Didier Jacob's Global Democracy- The Struggle for Political and Civil Rights in the 21st Century, discussed by Claude Buettner, Didier Jacobs, and Joseph Schwartzberg
BOOK REVIEW: Strobe Talbott's The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation reviewed by Ronald J. Glossop
NOTES AND RESOURCES
Minerva, vol 31
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Part 1: (1681k) Conviviality: Wishes and Consequence by Thesil Morlan
Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace by Michael Renner & Zoe Chafe
Sustainable Water Supply in the 21st Century by Margaret Catley-Carlson
Part 2: (476k) Population: Closing the "Baby Gap" by Barbara Crossette
Dark Underbelly of the World's Most "Peaceful" Countries (Gap in Global Peace Index) by Riane Eisler
Rape and Post-Conflict Justice by Noeleen Heyzer
BOOK REVIEW: Naomi Roht-Arriaza's The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights, reviewed by Mary Ann Tetreault
BOOK REVIEW: Robert Johansen's A United Nations Emergency Peace Service: to Prevent Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, reviewed by Ron Glossop
Part 3: (639k) INTERVIEW with Carolyn McAskie, Assistant Secretary General for Peacebuilding Support, by Anja Papenfu?
PROFILE: Peace Secured by World Federation and Disarmament: Marion McVitty, WFA Pioneer at the UN by Barbara Walker & Lydia Walker
On the Value of Weighted Decisions in UN Voting and Representation by Lucy Law Webster
INTERVIEW: Women's Engagement with the UN Human Rights Council, with Mary Jane Real, Coordinator for the International Campaign on Women Human Rights Defenders, by Isis International
Part 4: (1206k) NOTES & RESOURCES
Minerva, vol 30
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Part 1: (465k) Congruence of Civilizations by Thesil Morlan
Passive Acceptance of Others' Peculiarities Not Enough! by Kofi Annan
An Unavoidable Clash of Civilizations? by Ghassan Tueni
Critical Cosmopolitans: New Sovereignty/New Enlightenment by Madhavi Sunder
NOTES: Complementarity
When Culture Overrides the Law, by Kathambi Kinotri
NOTES: Cosmopolitan Education, by Amartya Sen
Substantive Citizenship: Feminist Politics in a Fundamentalist World, by Gita Sen
Part 2: (300k) The Current State of International Law, by S. James Anaya
Indigenous Peoples and the International Criminal Court, by Eva Nudd
NOTES: Quandaries of Identity, by Joan Cocks
Part 3: (262k) The Case for Contamination, by Kwame Anthony Appiah
NOTES: Challenges of Association, by Maura Leen
Part 4: (357k) BOOK REVIEW: Theda Skocpol's Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, reviewed by Tony Fleming
RESOURCES
LETTER
Minerva, vol 29
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Part 1: (237k) Armory for Human Security by Thesil Morlan
Renewing the Commitment to the Rule of Law & Human Rights by Mary Robinson
Terrorism as an International Crime by Leila Nadya Sadat
NOTES: Borders and People at Risk
Part 2: (144k) INTERVIEW with Antonio Guterres,UN Commissioner for Refugees, by Kathleen Newland & Kirin Kalia
Trafficking, Smuggling, and Human Rights,by Jacqueline Bhabha
Dilemmas of Contemporary Trafficking Work, by Alice Miller
The UN Trafficking Protocol and CEDAW: At Legal Odds, By Phyllis Coontz & Catherine Griebel
UPDATES: CEDAW
Part 3: (207k) Millennium Development Goals and CEDAW, by Caren Grown
A New Way of Doing Business (Post-Summit), by Mary Robinson
NOTES: Some Other Reactions to UN Reform Summit
Post-Summit Reaction: The Good News, by Barbara Crossette
NOTES: Home Improvement/Planet Renovation
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Minerva, vol 28
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Part 1: (295k) Tempered Confidence by Thesil Morlan
Speaking Law to Power by Joan Fitzpatrick
Part 2: (130k) Beyond the Hague by Richard Dicker & Elise Keppler
PROFILE: Gloria Atiba-Davies at the ICC by Diana Belletieri
Juvenile Justice and Child Soldiering by Christina Clark
Part 3: (255k) California’s CEDAW Bill, The New Massachusetts Human Rights Bill and Related Efforts
NOTES: Planet Renovation
Part 4: (307k) The Globalization of Pollution by Marquita K. Hil
Equitable and Reasonable Use of Water Within the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin by Elizabeth Burleson
RESOURCES
LETTERS: Vahida Nainar, Robert Haines
