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Current Happenings IIR Today The World Today
DATE EVENT PRESENTER VENUE TIME 31-Oct Caribbean Trade and Prof. Anthony Bryan Centre for 9.00 A.M. Border Security and Dr. Stephen Flynn Critical Thinking Visit to Institute of V.C. Board Room IR Nigel Harris 1 p.m. 6-Nov Seminar: Climate Change Dr. Mark Collins Board Room IR 3.00 P.M. a Commonwealth Issue 8-Nov Paper presentation: Power and Prof. Norman Girvan Lecture Room 1 12.30 P.M. Knowledge in International Visit Website Development (co-sponsored by SALISES and the Economics Dept. 11-19 Nov Educational Field Trip Drs. Mark Kirton and Guyana and Suriname Debbie Mohammed including COTED Meeting 22-Nov Paper Presentation Dr. Keith Nurse Lecture Room 1 23-Nov 2nd Herb Addo Memorial Prof. Johan Galtung Centre for 6.00 P.M. - Lecture: The Decline and Fall Critical Thinking 9.00 P.M of the US Empire - And then What? Reception follows on Principal's Grounds. PG Seminar: Perspectives on Marlon Anatol Lecture Room 1 1.30 P.M. National and Regional Competitiveness 29-Nov PG Seminar: Civil Society Annita Montoute Lecture Room 1 1.30 P.M. Participations: A Caribbean Case Study 3-Dec Book Launch: Governance Dr. Mark Kirton IIR Library 5.00 P.M. Conflict Analysis and Conflict Resolution 3- 5 Dec IDU Academic Staff Training Dr. Anna-May Edwards-Henry Seminar Room 1 8.30 - 3.30 4-Dec Special Lecture: Dr. Lana Wylie Lecture Room 3 2.00 - 4.00 Revolutionary Biology: Cuban Biotechnology and Foreign Relations 12-Dec Launch of UNDP Human Faculty of 9.00 A.M. Development Report Education Auditorium
Development Challenges in achieving the Millennium Development Goals: A Perspective on Trinidad and Tobago
The Institute of International Relations and the United Nations Development Fund (UNDF) invites the University Community and the General Public to attend a launch of reports at the School of Education Auditorium, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine on Wednesday 12th December, 2007 from 9:00 to 11:00a.m.
The reports to be launched are as follows:
Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2006-2007- presented by Mr. Neil Pierre, Director, ECLAC
UNDP’s Human Development Report 2007-2008 Theme: Fighting Climate Change-Human Solidarity in a Divide World – presented by Mr. Willard Phillips, Environmental Specialist, UNDP
The State of Food and Agriculture 2007-presented by Dr. Carlisle Pemberton, Senior Lecturer, Agriculture Economics & Extension, UWI
AIDS Epidemic Update-presented by Dr. Karen Sealy, Regional Director UNAIDS
For further information please contact Mrs. Marilyn Ramon-Fortune at Ext 2084
Cropper Foundation Donation
The Cropper Foundation has donated material to several libraries at the university, including the library at the Institute of International Relations. Material held at the IIR Library are:
- MA Summary for Decision Makers
- MA Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Industry
- MA Statement from the Board
- Development as if Equity Mattered. A Report on the Conference on Public Policy, Natural Resources and Equity. 2001
- Public Lecture 'The Caribbean and Climate Change: The Risks Ahead and the Need Responses' by Prof. James Gustave Speth. May 2006
- Caribbean Sea Ecosystem Assessment: Executive Summary (the full report is scheduled to be published in November 2007)
Caribbean Economic Governance ProjectCIGI recently launched the Caribbean Economic Governance Project.
Click on the following links for the first two papers in the Caribbean Papers series of this project
Repositioning the Caribbean within Globalisation
Brain Drain, Brain Circulation, Remittances and Development: Prospects for the Caribbean
The papers can also be found on the CIGI website.
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