How have UN ideas set international agendas?
Sir Richard Jolly will examine this complex issue in a public lecture at the University of Bath on Friday (30 April).
Sir Richard is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project.
He has held senior positions in the United Nations, including Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, during which time he co-authored the ground-breaking study of international aid practices, Adjustment with a Human Face.
In this lecture, Sir Richard will draw on the 17 volume intellectual history of the UN, which he co-directed, to assess the ways in which UN ideas have set international agendas in many global economic and social arenas to improve the quality of human life globally.
He will look at proposals that have been the driving force in human progress, promoting international economic and social development, and protecting human rights as well as human security.
The lecture, which has been organised by the Centre for Development Studies, is free and open to everyone, will be held at the University’s Claverton Campus, room 2E 3.1 at 2.15pm.