Many Voices, One Vision: The Early Years of the World Heritage Convention
Many Voices, One Vision: The Early Years of the World Heritage Convention

Author: Christina Cameron

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1317101014

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In 1972, UNESCO put in place the World Heritage Convention, a highly successful international treaty that influences heritage activity in virtually every country in the world. Focusing on the Convention's creation and early implementation, this book examines the World Heritage system and its global impact through diverse prisms, including its normative frameworks, constituent bodies, programme activities, personalities and key issues. The authors concentrate on the period between 1972 and 2000 because implementation of the World Heritage Convention during these years sets the stage for future activity and provides a foil for understanding the subsequent evolution in the decade that follows. This innovative book project seeks out the voices of the pioneers - some 40 key players who participated in the creation and early implementation of the Convention - and combines these insightful interviews with original research drawn from a broad range of both published and archival sources. The World Heritage Convention has been significantly influenced by 40 years of history. Although the text of the Convention remains unchanged, the way it has been implemented reflects global trends as well as evolving perceptions of the nature of heritage itself and approaches to conservation. Some are sounding the alarm, claiming that the system is imploding under its own weight. Others believe that the Convention is being compromised by geopolitical considerations and rivalries. This book stimulates reflection on the meaning of the Convention in the twenty-first century.

Reds in Blue
Reds in Blue

Author: Louis Howard Porter

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-09-18

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0197656307

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Before Josef Stalin's death in 1953, the USSR had, at best, an ambivalent relationship with noncommunist international organizations. Although it had helped found the United Nations, it refused to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and other major agencies beyond the Security Council and General Assembly, casting them as foreign meddlers. Under new leadership, the USSR joined UNESCO and a slew of international organizations for the first time, including the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization. As a result, it enabled Soviet diplomats, scholars, teachers, and even some blue-collar workers to participate in global discussions on topics ranging from their professional specialties to worldwide problems. Reds in Blue investigates Soviet relations with one of the most prominent of these organizations, UNESCO, to present a novel way of thinking about the role of the United Nations in the Soviet experience of the Cold War. Drawing on unused archival material from the former USSR and elsewhere, the book examines the forgotten stories of Soviet citizens who contributed to the nuts-and-bolts operations and lesser-known activities of world governance. These unexamined dimensions of everyday participation in the UN's bureaucracy, conferences, publications, and technical assistance show the body's importance for a group of Soviet "one-worlders," who used the UN to imagine and work for a better world amidst the realities of the Cold War. Meanwhile, the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev governments sought to use their participation as a means of spreading Soviet influence within Western-dominated international organizations but discovered that this required risk-taking and a degree of openness for which the Soviet leadership and domestic institutions were often unprepared. Moving beyond debates over the successes and failures of UN diplomatic activities, Reds in Blue offers fresh perspectives on how Soviet citizens became citizens of the world and advocated for opening up Soviet society in ways that transcended Cold War categories without abandoning a sense of loyalty to their homeland. In doing so, it recaptures a space where East and West worked together towards a future without international conflict in the years before détente.

A History of the Origin and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists
A History of the Origin and Progress of Seventh-day Adventists

Author: Mahlon Ellsworth Olsen

Publisher:

Published: 1925

Total Pages: 778

ISBN-13:

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This book is concerned with chronicling the history of Seventh-day Adventists, beginning with the first feeble beginnings in the Eastern States, moving to the Middle West and further west and south; with the organization and rise of institutions connected with the movement, and moving to other countries. - Introduction. The Apostolic Church. The Great Apostasy. Luther and His Forerunners. Later Reformers. Modern Missions. A Revival of Interest in the Prophecies. The Advent Message Proclaimed in the Old World. Beginnings in america. The Great Advent Awakening. The Summer and Autumn of 1844. Spiritual Gifts. The Sanctuary and the Sabbath. Beginning to Publish. Pioneer Work in the Middle West. The Organization of Churches and Conferences. Health and Temperance. The Camp-Meeting Era. Expansion West and South. The Central European Mission. The Organization and Work of the Sabbath School. Christian Education. The Scandinavian Mission. The Work Established in Great Britian. Australia and New Zealand. Beginnings Among the Germans. Home Missionary Activities-Death of James White. Growth of the Publishing Work. Island Missions. The Organization and Work of the Religious Liberty Association. Beginnings in Russia. African Missions-Part I. African Missions-Part II. Missions in Central America and the West Indies. Missions in South America. Growth of the Health and Educational Work. Advancement in Europe and the Near East . The General Conference of 1901. Educational and Health Activities. Missions in China. Missions in Japan, Chosen and the Philippines. Work Among the Foreigners in the United States. The Sabbath School and the Young People. Recent Departmental Activities. Growth at Home and Abroad. Recent Developments Outside of North America. The General Trend in North America. A Partial Bibliography. Chronological Appendix. Index