United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP) : oral history, 1999-2006

Scope and Contents

The United Nations Intellectual Oral History Project documents the origins, development, and evolution of ideas surrounding concepts such as development, international economics, human security, sustainability, peace keeping, gender, and least developed countries that shaped United Nations global social and economic agenda. Richard Jolly, Thomas Weiss, and Louis Emmeriji, all former employees of the United Nations and its various agencies, interviewed seventy nine staff members, researchers, consultants, directors, and chairs of commissions from the UN to reflect upon these ideas, each individual's role in promoting these ideas, and the organization's global influence. These interviews also highlight the impact of World War II, the Cold War, the 1970s economic crisis, and the collapse of Communism on these ideas. The United Nations Intellectual Oral History Project offers a comprehensive history of the development and evolution of ideas within this organization and the United Nation's contribution to global economic and social policy. The collection's narrators are: Adebayo Adedeji, Martii Ahtisaari, Samir Amin, Kofi Annan, Margaret Joan Anstee, Lourdes Arizpe, Sartaj Aziz, Paul Berthoud, Maurice Bertrand, Francis Blanchard, Elise Boulding, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Margaret Bruce, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Bernard T.G. Chidzero, Gamani Corea, Robert Cox, Virendra Dayal, Guido de Marco, Leila Doss, Michael W. Doyle, Louis Emmerij, Just Faaland, Seymour Maxwell Finger, Celso Furtado, Richard N. Gardner, Dharam Ghai, Sven Hamrell, Gerald Karl Helleiner, Julia J. Henderson, Stephane Hessel, Noeleen Heyzer, Virginia Housholder, Enrique Iglesias, Devaki Jain, Richard Jolly, James O. C. Jonah, Johan Kaufmann, Lawrence R. Klein, Stephen Lewis, M. Alister McIntyre, Donald Mills, Sotiris Mousouris, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Sadako Ogata, I.G. Patel, Surendra J. Patel, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Vladimir Petrovsky, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Jacques J. Polak, Jan Pronk, Leticia Shahani, Shridath Ramphal, Elisabeth Rehn, Rubens Ricupero, Gert Rosenthal, John Ruggie, Ignacy Sachs, Nafis Sadik, Klaus Sahlgren, Oscar Schachter, Amartya Sen, Mihaly Simai, Hans W. Singer, Mary Smieton, Margaret Snyder, Juan Somavia, Cornelio Sommaruga, Janez Stanovnik, Jack I. Stone, Paul Streeten, Mostafa Tolba, Sir Brian Urquhart, Victor L. Urquidi, Kurt Waldheim, Thomas G. Weiss, Ponna Wignaraja, and Michael Zammit Cutajar

Subjects

• Communism--History--20th century.
• Diplomacy.
• International organization.
• International relations.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United Nations.
• United States--Economic conditions--1971-1981.
• World War, 1939-1945.