UN Conference
Oct. 3, 2001

United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA) Midpeninsula will hold a Mid-Pacific UNA Regional Conference on November 10, 2001 at Stanford University.
Under the theme of "Is the UN an Endangered Species?", there will be five topics:

• Today's Critical World Issues: the UN's Role in Addressing Them
  
• The UN Conference on Racism: Results and Implications
  
• The UN and the Global Health Crisis
  
• Security Issues: Peacekeeping and Arms Control
• US Relations with the United Nations

Just after the 9-11 attack, I think it’s right time for American people to think about some serious questions, both national and international. Why America became the target of terrorism? It’s simply “an attack to freedom”, or there also exist other political reasons? How can we control the worldwide underground arms exchange? How can we prevent the terrorists getting the arms? What’s role of the UN in keeping worldwide peace? And, especially, what’s role of the UN in the coming America-centered war against terrorism? Whether the US plays a leading role in the UN, or overrides the UN? All the questions are critical. So the topics in this conference will have additional attraction at this time. The questions may not be fully answered in the conference, but the lectures giving by Jeffrey Laurenti, Executive Director of Policy Studies at UNA-USA, Barbara Boxer, US Senator, and other political people and some professionals may offer the audience some perspectives to look into this kind of issues.