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Article: The United Nations as an educational resource.
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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This article contends that the United Nations as an "educational resource" results from the interrelation between its own public information function and UN-related academic research and teachings.
While the United Nations public information activities are aimed at enlightening the world in a broader way about the Organization's achievements, universities are aiming at a similar goal in their own analytical way, targeting future decision makers. For that endeavour, both institutions need each other's cooperation. How this has actually worked in practice will be shown through the example of the Department for Political Science (DPS) at the University of Vienna, ...