 United
Nations Briefing On Africa
Well
Attended
 More than 120
students interested in world affairs attended a
conference at the United Nations on the
Challenges of Peace and Development in Africa,
hosted by Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, Under-Secretary-
General at the UN and Special Adviser on Africa.
The event was organized by Prof. Stoyan Ganev of
the New England Center for Regional and
International Studies and the UB Business School.
Gambari gave a speech on the topic and a panel
answered questions and engaged in dialogue.
Included in the panel were Prof. Gambari; a
representative from the Permanent Mission of
Tanzania; UB President Neil Salonen; Mrs. Diane
Richardson, head of the UB Graduate Business
School; and UB students Isatou Gallow and
Alejandro Gonzales.
 Gambari touched upon the
problems facing Africa today, specifically wars
in Angola and the Republic of the Congo, and the
role the UN can play in mediating these
conflicts. Referencewasas also made to AIDS as a
source of unremitting anguish for the continent
and how the UN has for the first time included
HIV on the agenda of the Security Council.
The UN has identified the main tasks which need
to be undertaken by the Africans if lasting peace
and prosperity is to be achieved. They include
the willingness to rely upon political rather
than military responses to conflicts; taking good
governance more seriously; and adopting more
sound economic policies.
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