UNRISD
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
(UNRISD) is an autonomous agency engaging in multi-disciplinary research on the
social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Its work is
guided by the conviction that, for effective development policies to be
formulated, an understanding of the social and political context is crucial. The
Institute attempts to provide governments, development agencies, grassroots
organizations and scholars with a better understanding of how development
policies and processes of economic, social and environmental change affect
different social groups. Working through an extensive network of national
research centres, UNRISD aims to promote original research and strengthen
research capacity in developing countries.
Current research programmes include: Business Responsibility for
Sustainable Development; Emerging Mass Tourism in the South; Gender, Poverty and
Well-Being; Globalization and Citizenship; Grassroots Initiatives and Knowledge
Networks for Land Reform in Developing Countries; New Information and
Communication Technologies; Public Sector Reform and Crisis-Ridden States;
Technical Co-operation and Women’s Lives: Integrating Gender into
Development Policy; and Volunteer Action and Local Democracy: A Partnership for
a Better Urban Future. Recent research programmes have included: Crisis,
Adjustment and Social Change; Culture and Development; Environment, Sustainable
Development and Social Change; Ethnic Conflict and Development; Participation
and Changes in Property Relations in Communist and Post-Communist Societies;
Political Violence and Social Movements; Social Policy, Institutional Reform and
Globalization; Socio-Economic and Political Consequences of the International
Trade in Illicit Drugs; and the War-torn Societies Project. UNRISD research
projects focused on the 1995 World Summit for Social Development included:
Economic Restructuring and Social Policy; Ethnic Diversity and Public Policies;
Rethinking Social Development in the 1990s; and Social Integration at the
Grassroots: The Urban Dimension.
A list of the Institute’s free and priced publications can
be obtained by contacting the Reference Centre, United Nations Research
Institute for Social Development, Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10,
Switzerland; Tel (41 22) 917 3020; Fax (41 22) 917 0650; Telex 41.29.62 UNO CH;
e-mail: info@unrisd.org; World Wide Web Site:
http://www.unrisd.org
