1 May 2015
Tony Bero: Profile of a UNU-GEST Fellow 2015
An interview with Tony Bero, a UNU-GEST fellow from Palestine, was featured in the weekly newsletter of the Icelandic Development Agency, ICEIDA. Tony Bero is 35 years old and comes from Beit Jala city, near Bethlehem in West Bank, Palestine. He works at UNRWA/WBFO, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which was established in 1949.
3 March 2015
Climate Imaginaries: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Thinking Climate Change
At the Centre for Womens and Gender Research at the University of Bergen, Norway, the course “Climate Imaginaries: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Thinking Climate Change” offers an interdisciplinary investigation of how we imagine climate change in contemporary times.
2 March 2015
UN Peace Operations and the Use of Force: Issues, Lessons and Prospects
Mats Berdal, Professor of Security & Development at King‘s College London, and UNU-GEST board member gave public talk entitled “UN Peace Operations and the Use of Force – Issues, Lessons and Prospects” on Friday 13 February 2015. The talk considered one of the principal issues facing the High-Level Panel on UN Peace Operations, which was set up in 2014: whether or not UN forces should prepare for, and engage in, more robust peacekeeping, perhaps even be prepared to take on a war-fighting role.
15 January 2015
New fellows for 2015 diploma programme
The 2015 UNU-GEST Diploma Programme in International Gender Studies has begun with the arrival of ten fellows who will be participating in the programme this year. The fellows come from Malawi, Mozambique, Palestine (West Bank) and Uganda. The fellows work for various government ministries, human rights and civil society organizations, as well as UN institutions.
24 October 2014
Graduation of Fellows 2014
The closing ceremony of the 36th annual session of the UNU-GTP was held on October 17, 2014, with 29 UNU Fellows graduating from the six month specialized courses.