United Nations
Modelling a fascist internationalism: Italy’s national committee for intellectual cooperation, 1924–1937
The launch of an enquiry into “the conditions of intellectual life” since the Great War was among the first activities of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) after its foundation in 1922.
The trauma of imperial decline versus the triumph of national rebirth: austria’s and Poland’s contrasting concepts of international intellectual cooperation after the first world war
In 1922, against the backdrop of manifold challenges faced by scholarly and scientific endeavours across Central Europe, the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) was established to advise the League of Nations on how one might best assist intellectual exchange and foster international cooperation.
In the engine room of intellectual cooperation: a prosopographical approach to the civil servants of the international institute of intellectual cooperation in Paris
In October 1925, the Norwegian zoologist Kristine Bonnevie – a founding member of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) and, besides Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the only woman on this body – wrote a long letter to the newly appointed director of the International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation (IIIC), Julien Luchaire.
The entretien of buenos aires in 1936: debates on intellectual cooperation and western culture in a world on edge
In early September 1936, two international writers’ congresses took place in Buenos Aires: the PEN Club’s and the Entretien.
Resolutions and Decisions Adopted by the General Assembly
Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly
Art is Long, Life is Short
Between the many resolutions, speeches, reports and other documents that are produced each year, the United Nations is awash in text. It is an ongoing challenge to create a coherent and useful picture of this corpus. In particular, there is an interest in measuring how the work of the United Nations system aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is a need for a scalable, objective, and consistent way to measure how similar any given publication is to each of the 17 SDGs. This paper explains a proof-of-concept process for building such a system using machine learning algorithms. By creating a model of the 17 SDGs it is possible to measure how similar the contents of individual publications are to each of the goals — their SDG Score. This paper also shows how this system can be used in practice by computing the SDG Scores for a limited selection of DESA publications and providing some analytics.
A UN Framework for the Immediate Socio-economic Response to COVID-19
This report sets out the framework for the United Nations’ urgent socio-economic support to countries and societies in the face of COVID-19 (coronavirus), putting in practice the UN Secretary-General’s Shared Responsibility, Global Solidarity report on the same subject. It is one of three critical components of the UN’s efforts to save lives, protect people, and rebuild better, alongside the health response, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), and the humanitarian response, as detailed in the UN-led COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan. The e-book for this policy brief has been converted into an accessible format for the visually impaired and people with print reading disabilities. It is fully compatible with leading screen-reader technologies such as JAWS and NVDA.
