<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"><channel><title>United Nations University</title><atom:link href="http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><link>http://unu.edu</link><description>United Nations University</description><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 06:46:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><language>en-US</language><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><item><title>Lecture by Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize Laureates</title><link>http://unu.edu/events/upcoming/hideyo-noguchi-africa-prize-laureates-lecture.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/events/upcoming/hideyo-noguchi-africa-prize-laureates-lecture.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 03:51:06 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>daniel</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/events/upcoming/?post_type=event&#038;p=34875</guid><description><![CDATA[The 2nd Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize Laureates — Dr. Peter Piot of Belgium and Dr. Alex Godwin Coutinho of Uganda — will deliver Hideyo Noguchi commemorative addresses at United Nations University Headquarters in Tokyo on 4 June 2013. 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At the current trajectory, the world will not meet the 2015 Millennium Development [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/events/upcoming/walk-the-talk-ending-hunger-by-2025.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Water Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities</title><link>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/water-cooperation-challenges-and-opportunities.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/water-cooperation-challenges-and-opportunities.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>bill</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/events/archive//?post_type=event&#038;p=33863</guid><description><![CDATA[World Water Day is held annually on March 22 to emphasize the relevance of fresh water and to promote the sustainable management of freshwater resources. The focus of this year&#8217;s World Water Day Water Lecture is &#8220;Water  Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities&#8221;. A panel of  high-level experts from government and UN agencies will discuss various forms of water [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/water-cooperation-challenges-and-opportunities.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Towards Building a Sustainable Society: What is the Inclusive Wealth Index?</title><link>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/what-is-the-inclusive-wealth-index.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/what-is-the-inclusive-wealth-index.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:21:49 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>bill</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/events/archive//?post_type=event&#038;p=31979</guid><description><![CDATA[What constitutes the true wealth of nations? What kind of index can measure true wealth? To address these questions, the International Human Development Programme on Global Environmental Change, hosted by UNU (UNU-IHDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other partner agencies released the Inclusive Wealth Report 2012（IWR）at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development on 17 [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/what-is-the-inclusive-wealth-index.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Missile Defence — A New NATO Capability: The Romanian Contribution</title><link>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/nato-missile-defence-the-romanian-contribution.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/nato-missile-defence-the-romanian-contribution.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:04:27 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>bill</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/events/archive//?post_type=event&#038;p=30145</guid><description><![CDATA[Bogdan Aurescu, Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania, will deliver a lecture at the United Nations University Headquarters on the topic of Romania’s contribution to the newly established NATO missile defence system. In November 2010 in Lisbon, NATO’s leaders decided to develop a ballistic missile defence capability to pursue the [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/nato-missile-defence-the-romanian-contribution.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Folk and the Formula: Pathways to Capable States</title><link>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/folk-and-the-formula-pathways-to-capable-states.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/folk-and-the-formula-pathways-to-capable-states.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:30:01 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>bill</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/events/archive//?post_type=event&#038;p=29037</guid><description><![CDATA[WIDER Annual Lecture: “Folk and the Formula — Pathways to Capable States” After fifty years of development efforts, 80 percent of states are still at low, stagnating or failing levels of capabilities. Why? What could be done better? The reality is that success in building state capability typically comes from replacing bad institutions with good (“folk practices”), based [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/folk-and-the-formula-pathways-to-capable-states.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>UNU-MERIT Inaugural Lecture</title><link>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/unu-merit-inaugural-lecture.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/unu-merit-inaugural-lecture.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:31:41 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>sdietrich</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/events/archive//?post_type=event&#038;p=28099</guid><description><![CDATA[Inaugural Lecture: “Het kind van de rekening” Dr. Bas ter Weel will present the inaugural lecture in Dutch. About the speaker Bas ter Weel is Head of the Department of Labour Market and Welfare at the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) in The Hague, the Netherlands. Since 2002, he also has worked as [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/unu-merit-inaugural-lecture.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Public Lecture by Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe</title><link>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/lecture-by-zimbabwe-pm-tsvangirai.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/lecture-by-zimbabwe-pm-tsvangirai.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:46:31 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>bill</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.unu-mc.org/events/archive//?post_type=event&#038;p=25860</guid><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Tsvangirai will focus on the occasion of this public lecture on democratization processes on the African continent. Speaking from the perspective and experience of a political leader who has experienced robust political situations, Prime Minister Tsvangirai will elaborate on the choices and decisions that can be made to support the return to political [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/events/archive/lecture/lecture-by-zimbabwe-pm-tsvangirai.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item></channel></rss><!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/Database Caching 16/44 queries in 0.034 seconds using memcachedObject Caching 398/469 objects using memcachedServed from: unu.edu @ 2013-05-25 10:59:03 by W3 Total Cache -->