2000
Interns, Research Scholars and Friends
Interns
During 2000, three teams of 5-6 highly-qualified young people worked as interns at GPF – one team in the spring, one in the summer and one in the fall. The interns came from France, Canada, Ghana, China, Finland, India, Germany and Japan as well as the United States.
These talented young people play an essential role in the GPF office. Each intern has responsibility for a particular GPF program area and its web postings. Interns help organize meetings, carry out research projects, write policy papers, coordinate programs with other NGOs, monitor UN meetings, and more. The internship is an opportunity for learning and growth that often leads to careers in international policy or law.
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Interns working in the GPF office |
Interns constantly bring fresh ideas and innovation to GPF as well as the perspectives of different lands and cultures. During 2000 they helped us to adopt new computer systems, to see new possibilities in our web site, and to make new connections between partners and programs. During the year, GPF attracted nearly 150 applications from a large number of countries. We devoted much care and time processing these applications, making selections, and training and supervising the interns. To make the internship program more effective, we continued to improve our training program and materials. We also organized regular lunches for the interns with NGO leaders, diplomats and Secretariat officials. |
The interns serving in 2000 were: Aline Baillat, Victoria Clarke, Alexandra Courtney, Rebecca Culley, Christopher Fichera, Jason Garred, Alice Gibbons, Christian Kaufholz, Daniel Lambach, Eleanor Lumsden, Anthony Mak, Kai Müller, Nicholas Olmsted, Rahul Rao, Rachel Sarpong, Yuko Suzuki and Misaki Watanabe.
By Annual, GPF had over fifty intern "alumni" from a four-year period. Nearly all of these alumni keep in regular touch with us and we send them GPF news and news of fellow alumni through a twice-yearly electronic newsletter.
During the year, we wrote over forty letters of recommendation and also provided phone and other support for graduate school and employment applications. Many won great successes and high honors. We are very proud of this outstanding group of young people and their continuing accomplishments.
Columbia University Program
During the fall, the UN Studies Program of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs proposed a joint program with GPF to provide graduate students with opportunities to write research papers on topics that would be useful to NGOs at the UN. GPF agreed to inform NGO partners about this opportunity and to coordinate NGO research needs for input to SIPA. This program will get under way in 2001.
Friends of GPF
Many senior people help GPF's work as board members, friends and advisors – too many to mention all here. We are especially indebted to Mia Adjali of the United Methodist UN Office, Beverlee Bruce of the Social Science Research Council, Kenny Bruno of CorpWatch, Sam Daws of the Executive Office of the Secretary General, Clarence Dias of the International Center for Law in Development, Lori Heninger of the Quaker UN Office, Klaus Hüfner of the Freie Universität Berlin, Jeffrey Laurenti of UNA-USA, Afaf Mahfouz and Carl Schieren of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Status with the UN, David Malone of the International Peace Academy, Jens Martens of WEED, Richard Morran of Save the Children UK, Craig Murphy of Wellesley College, Bill Pace of the World Federalist Movement, John Rempel of the Mennonite UN Office, Michael Renner of Worldwatch Institute, Robert Smylie of the Presbyterian UN Office and Cora Weiss of the Hague Appeal for Peace.
We are grateful for the help of the Steering Group of the NGO Working Group on the Security Council – Vice-Chair Catherine Dumait-Harper of Médecins sans Frontií¨res and members Peter Davies of Oxfam International, Dennis Frado of the Lutheran Office for World Community, Felicity Hill of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Jack Patterson of the Quaker UN Office, Sandi Tully of CARE International, and Joanna Weschler of Human Rights Watch.
We are grateful to many UN officials and staff for their help, including especially Barbara Adams and Stella Arthur of the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service, Harris Gleckman and Barry Herman of the Financing for Development Secretariat, Hanifa Mezoui and Paul Hoeffel of the NGO Liaison Offices, and the staff of the UN Library and the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary General.
We appreciate the advice and help of many delegates and we acknowledge gratefully the ambassadors who provided briefings to the NGO Working Group on the Security Council. In particular, we would like to thank Ambassadors Martin Andjaba of Namibia, Anwarul Chowdhury of Bangladesh, Patricia Durrant of Jamaica, Robert Fowler of Canada, Jeremy Greenstock of the United Kingdom, Hasmy Agam of Malaysia, Arnoldo Listre of Argentina, Antonio Monteiro of Portugal, and Peter van Walsum of the Netherlands. We salute especially ambassadors Chowdhury, Durrant, Fowler and Greenstock for pioneering new relations between NGOs and the Council during the year.
Meeting and Conference Facilities
During the year, GPF organized nearly fifty meetings and other events. We acknowledge the organizations that provided gratis meeting rooms and other facilities for these events: the Presbyterian UN Office, United Nations Association-USA, the United Methodist Office for the UN, Care International and the Quaker UN Office.
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Summer team outside the UN, August 2000 |
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