{"id":5642,"date":"2017-08-09T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T20:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/?page_id=5642"},"modified":"2017-08-10T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T14:25:58","slug":"una-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/una-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"UNA Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_4&#8243;][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;on&#8221; meta=&#8221;off&#8221; author=&#8221;on&#8221; date=&#8221;on&#8221; categories=&#8221;on&#8221; comments=&#8221;on&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; featured_placement=&#8221;below&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_background=&#8221;off&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][et_pb_sidebar _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; area=&#8221;et_pb_widget_area_1&#8243; orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][et_pb_blurb admin_label=&#8221;UNA-USA Conference Center 1992&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;UNA-USA Conference Center 1992&#8243; url=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Laurenti_Gati.jpg&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Laurenti_Gati.jpg&#8221; use_circle=&#8221;off&#8221; use_circle_border=&#8221;off&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; animation=&#8221;top&#8221; alt=&#8221;UNA-USA Conference Center 1992&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>A meeting held at UNA-USA\u2019s Arthur Ross Conference Center in 1992. From left: Jeffrey Laurenti, UNA Executive Director of Multilateral Studies; Richard Thornburgh, UN Under-Secretary General for Management; Toby Trister Gati, UNA Executive Vice President; and UNA President Edward C. Luck. (Photo courtesy of Toby Trister Gati)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][et_pb_blurb admin_label=&#8221;1988 UNA Global Leadership Award Dinner&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;1988 UNA Global Leadership Award Dinner&#8221; url=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Vance_Whitehead_Heuvel.jpg&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Vance_Whitehead_Heuvel.jpg&#8221; use_circle=&#8221;off&#8221; use_circle_border=&#8221;off&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; animation=&#8221;top&#8221; alt=&#8221;1988 UNA Global Leadership Award Dinner&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Cyrus Vance, Former Secretary of State and UNA-USA Co-Chairman of the National Council, John C. Whitehead and William van den Heuvel at the 1988 UNA Global Leadership Award Dinner (Photo courtesy of the Seton Hall University UNA-USA archives)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][et_pb_blurb admin_label=&#8221;China 2005&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;Sino-US Dialogue on Global Security&#8221; url=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/China_2005.jpg&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/China_2005.jpg&#8221; use_circle=&#8221;off&#8221; use_circle_border=&#8221;off&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; animation=&#8221;top&#8221; alt=&#8221;Sino-US Dialogue on Global Security&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>UNA-USA&#8217;s delegation to the second Sino-US Dialogue on Global Security, Beijing 2005. From left: Ken Miller, Jeffrey Bader, Richard Williamson, Toby Gati, Brent Scowcroft, Suzanne DiMaggio, William Luers and Kenneth Lieberthal. (Photo courtesy of the Seton Hall University UNA-USA archives)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][et_pb_blurb admin_label=&#8221;Moscow&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;UNA Parallel Studies Arms Control Group, Moscow, December 1987&#8243; url=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Moscow_Tower.jpg&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Moscow_Tower.jpg&#8221; use_circle=&#8221;off&#8221; use_circle_border=&#8221;off&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; animation=&#8221;top&#8221; alt=&#8221;UNA Parallel Studies Arms Control Group, Moscow, December 1987&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>With Georgy Arbatov, left, the Secretary of UNA-USSR and the Director of the Institute on US and Canadian Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences; and US Senator John Tower (R-Texas), the Chairman of the UNA-USA Group on Arms Control. (Photo courtesy of Toby Trister Gati)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][et_pb_blurb admin_label=&#8221;John Bierwirth&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;John Bierwirth&#8221; url=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Grumman_UNA.jpg&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Grumman_UNA.jpg&#8221; use_circle=&#8221;off&#8221; use_circle_border=&#8221;off&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; animation=&#8221;top&#8221; alt=&#8221;John Bierwirth&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>CEO of the Grumman Corporation, and General Chai of BIISS in 1988 (Photo courtesy of Tobi Gati)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][et_pb_blurb admin_label=&#8221; Parallel Study Group&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;UNA-USA and UNA-Russia Parallel Study Group&#8221; url=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Moscow_Scranton.jpg&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Moscow_Scranton.jpg&#8221; use_circle=&#8221;off&#8221; use_circle_border=&#8221;off&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; animation=&#8221;top&#8221; alt=&#8221;UNA-USA and UNA-Russia Parallel Study Group&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Meeting of the UNA-USA and UNA-Russia parallel study group in Moscow,1983. Georgy Abartov, the President of the US and Canada Institute, seated center with former ambassador William Scranton to his right; Toby Gati, the Project Director of the UNA-USA Parallel Studies Program, is at the head of the table to the right. (Photo courtesy of Tobi Gati)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][et_pb_blurb admin_label=&#8221;NASA&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;Georgy Arbatov&#8221; url=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/NASA-1974.jpg&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/NASA-1974.jpg&#8221; use_circle=&#8221;off&#8221; use_circle_border=&#8221;off&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; animation=&#8221;top&#8221; alt=&#8221;Georgy Arbatov&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Head of the UNA-Russia delegation and President of the US and Canada Institute, visiting NASA in 1974. (Photo courtesy of Tobi Gati)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][et_pb_blurb admin_label=&#8221;Jimmy Carter&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;Jimmy Carter&#8221; url=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Carter_UNA.jpg&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/Carter_UNA.jpg&#8221; use_circle=&#8221;off&#8221; use_circle_border=&#8221;off&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; animation=&#8221;top&#8221; alt=&#8221;Jimmy Carter&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>UNA-USA and UNA-Russia joint delegation meeting with Governor Jimmy Carter, 1974 (Photo courtesy of Tobi Gati)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][et_pb_blurb admin_label=&#8221;Delegation to Beijing&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;UNA-USA Delegation to Beijing, China, 1984&#8243; url=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/China_1984_1.jpg&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2017\/08\/China_1984_1.jpg&#8221; use_circle=&#8221;off&#8221; use_circle_border=&#8221;off&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; animation=&#8221;top&#8221; alt=&#8221;UNA-USA Delegation to Beijing, China, 1984&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Including the head of the delegation Brent Scowcroft (front row, third from left) and UNA-USA President Ed Luck (second from right) (Photo courtesy of Tobi Gati)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_blurb admin_label=&#8221;2015 Global Classrooms (two) &#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;2015 Global Classrooms&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2016\/04\/Model-UN_2.jpg&#8221; use_circle=&#8221;off&#8221; use_circle_border=&#8221;off&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; animation=&#8221;top&#8221; url=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2016\/04\/Model-UN_2.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;2015 Global Classrooms&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Students at the 2015 Global Classrooms at the United Nations (Photo courtesy of the Seton Hall University UNA-USA archives)<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_blurb admin_label=&#8221;2015 Global Classrooms (one)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.66&#8243; title=&#8221;2015 Global Classrooms&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;on&#8221; use_icon=&#8221;off&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2016\/04\/Model-UN_1_corr.jpg&#8221; use_circle=&#8221;off&#8221; use_circle_border=&#8221;off&#8221; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; animation=&#8221;top&#8221; url=&#8221;http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/UNA-USA\/files\/2016\/04\/Model-UN_1_corr.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;2015 Global Classrooms&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 Global Classrooms at the United Nations (Photo courtesy of the Seton Hall University UNA-USA archives).<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> A meeting held at UNA-USA\u2019s Arthur Ross Conference Center in 1992. 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