www.unabath.org.uk

Bath and District Branch United Nations Association - Programme for 2005-7

The 'Current Global Issues' Series 2005-7

 

Previous meetings:

10 January 2005

A Local View On Global Issues

Speaker: The Right Worshipful, the Mayor of Bath (our Patron)

14 February 2005

Iraq - Two Years On - An Iraqi View

Speaker: Ghazi Sabr-ali , Former Chairman of North Oil Company, Kirkuk

 

 14 March 2005

The United Nations Everywhere – from Bath to the Moon

Speaker: Malcolm McIntosh – Special Advisor to UN Secretary General

 

Monday 11 April 2005

The ‘Mayors for Peace’ Programme:

A Vision for Creating a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Speaker:  Janet Bloomfield – Senior Consultant on UK Foreign Policy

 

Monday 9 May 2005

Singapore in a Globalised World – A Personal Perspective

Speaker:  Irene Prentice – Master in International Development (Univ. of Bath)

 

Monday 13 June 2005

The UN and Bath:

The Bath World Heritage City Management Plan

Abigail Harrap – B&NES Council

 

Tuesday 28 June - at 2pm-6pm

Regional Public Debate on United Nations Reform

 

Sponsored by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and United Nations Association UK

 

Monday 11 July 2005 - at 7.30pm

The UN Millennium Development Goals

Video, Update & Discussion

 

Monday 24 October 2005

United Nations Day – The UN’s 60th Birthday

Brief AGM plus

Keynote public meeting: Views of the UN -

Panel: The Mayor of Bath, Cllr Peter Metcalfe,

Prof Iftikhar Malik, Rev Mr Nigel Rawlinson

 

Monday 28 November 2005

Report on Israel-Palestine visit

By Ken Masters

 

Monday 30 January 2006

Representation of Asylum seekers and Refugees in the UK media.

by Forward Maisokwadzo - an exiled journalist from Zimbabwe

 

Monday 27 February 2006

"The World Today: a Clash of Civilisations or a Clash of Barbarisms?"

by Professor Geof Wood

Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Bath

 

Monday 27 March 2006

Tsering Topgyal

Chinese Security Practice & Sino-Tibetan Dialogue:

Prospects, Obstacles and Consequences

www.tibetsociety.com

 

Monday 22 May 2006

Diana Basterfield

 

Co-Founder, MinistryForPeace.org & Negotiate-Peace.org

 

Prevention of War in Iran: 

The Possibilities of Conflict Transformation

 

Monday 26 June 2006

Muna Golmohamad

World Citizenship & World Peace

 

Wednesday 19 July 2006

Carol Naughton – British Pugwash WMD Awareness Programme

 

Beyond Trident’ – also showing her new film ‘Anthropology 101’

 

 

 Monday 24 July 2006

Dr Mahinda Deegalle – Bath Spa University

 

‘Buddhism & Conflict in Sri Lanka’

 

 

Monday 25 Sept 2006

A’hlam Akram & Arthur Goodman

Joint Action for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (JAIPP) & Jews for Justice for Palestinians (www.JFJFP.org)

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:

What is needed now

 

Thursday 19 Oct 2006

REGIONAL SEMINAR

 

Richard K Bell - US Embassy

US Foreign Policy and the UN

NOTE VENUE: 6pm at Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol

BY: UNA East Glos Branch, Univ of Bristol, International Law Assoc

 

Monday 23 Oct 2006

Dr James Copestake – University of Bath

Well-being & Poverty in Peru

Introduced by The Mayor of Bath on the eve of UN Day

 

Monday 27 Nov 2006

Mohammed El Sharif (UWE)

The Situation in Sudan

 

Monday 22 January 2007

Dr Richard Lawson: www.greenhealth.org.uk

Measuring the Rulers:

The Campaign for a Human Rights Index at the UN

 

Monday 26 February 2007

Sarah C. White (University of Bath)

 Children’s Rights and the

Imagination of Community in Bangladesh

 

Monday 26 March 2007

Bill Parry: www.wallofpeace.org

The Impact of the Israeli Wall

-         its route and implications

 

Monday 23 April 2007

Gordon Glass (Chairman Bath UNA)

Creating a UN Parliamentary Assembly:

launching the international campaign

 

Monday 28 May 2007

Dr Dibyesh Anand (University of Bath)

Tibet as an International Issue:

The Role of the West

 

Monday 25 June 2007

Luke Wilde (Director, TwentyFifty Limited)

The UN, Human Rights and Business:

The recent past, the current work of the

UN Special Representative and the future

 

Monday 23 July 2007

Richard Guthrie (www.cbw-events.org.uk)

International Arms Control:

Current Status and Future Prospects

 

Monday 24 September 2007

Dr Ben Reid

Islam, Conflict, the Philippines

and Globalisation

 

Monday 29 October 2007

Dr Nitasha Kaul

 

Writer and Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy London

Himalayan Visions of Happiness:

My travels in Bhutan, Sikkim & Tibet

In the Presence of our Patron, The Right Worshipful, The Mayor of Bath

To Celebrate UN Day and One World Week - At 7.30pm, after the AGM at 7pm

 

2.30pm on Saturday 24 November 2007

Graham Watson MEP for SW England & Gibraltar

 

Leader of  Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament

Does National Sovereignty

Mean Global Anarchy?

 

Monday 4 February 2008

Rev. Emmanuel Odoemene

NIGERIA: Framework for Consolidating Democracy

 

Monday 27 October 2008

In the presence of our Patron, The Mayor of Bath

Ed Hill presents his latest film on:

The Situation in Palestine

This meeting followed the Branch AGM at 7pm

 

Monday 29 June 2009

Witnessing Reality

Stories from Israel-Palestine

 By Judith Hammond