File contains correspondence with Layachi Yaker, the Secretary-General of the International World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO). Correspondence concerns the IWCO Study Group on the Economic Uses of the Ocean, of which Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a member.
File contains correspondence with Lee Kimball, executive director of the Council on Ocean Law (COL). Correspondence concerns his work with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the World Resources Insitute (WRI) on the Antarctica Program, various COL workshops (including ones held in advance of the 1986 Preparatory Commission meeting), Pacem in Maribus conferences, and ratification of UNCLoS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea). File includes two papers by Kimball: "International Institutions and Legal Issues," and "Whither International Institutional Arrangements to Support Ocean Law." See MS-2-744, Box 274, Folder 3 for more correspondence from COL.
File contains correspondence with Lennox Hinds, who was the Senior Advisor for the Marine Affairs and Fisheries division of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). File contains a request for funds from CIDA.
File contains correspondence with Mates, a Serbian political science professor. Concerns a project by the International Ocean Institute (IOI)’s project, “Environment and Disarmament: Controlling the Dual-Purpose Agents,” and other matters. Also includes "The U.N. System and the Management of Dual Purpose Agents" by Leo Mates.
File includes correspondence with Luis Luis Echeverría, President of Mexico between 1970-1976, and then Ambassador of Mexico to UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization). Topics of discussion include Pacem in Maribus (PIM) VIII, and a seminar on the new international economic order and the law of the sea. File also includes an address by Preident Echeverría at a session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS III) held in Caracas, Venezuela.
File contains correspondence from Chris Pinto, who was the Secretary-General of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal at the Hague. Correspondence suggests individuals for the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO).
File contains a copy of a report, "Ocean Mining methods and their Subsystems, Components, and Subassemblies." A report commission by United Nations Industrial Development (UNIDO). Also includes an invoice, and correspondence with Mann Borgese.
File contains correspondence to Mario Baptista Coelho, who was the personal assistant to Portugese president Mario Soares. Included is discussion of administrative matters relating to organization of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO), especially the the First Plenary session of the IWCO held at the United Nations University in Tokyo in September 1995 (including provisional agendas). Also included is a tentative programme of work for the IWCO. File contains duplicate copies of letters, which have not been digitized.
File contains correspondence with IOC Secretary Mario Ruivo, as well as: a preliminary note for a seminar entitled "Seminaire sur le theme 'Oceans, humantie et ethiques'" (Oceans, Mankind and Ethics), a speech by Portugal's representative at UNCLOS III, documentation for "Seminaire sur le nouveau regime pour les oceans" (Seminar on the new regime of the Oceans, Lisbon, 1977) prepared in cooperation with the Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres, Ministere de l'Agriculture et Peches, and Services Culturels de l'Ambassade de France au Portugal (Minister of foreign affairs, minister of Agriculture and Fishing, and Cultural Services of the French ambassador to Portugal), an annotated bibliography from "Politics of the Sea" by D. Rozee, a UNESCO newsletter, and a final report from the UNESCO Planning Group for the seminar on "Oceans, Mankind and Ethics". Some correspondence concerns the International Ocean Institute Ocean Yearbook, UNCLOS III, Pacem in Maribus, and RIO. Some documents in French and Portugese.
File contains correspondence with M. Ruivo, who was the UNESCO-IOC Secretary. Includes information about the Third World Prize and a final report from the Planning Group of the seminar on "Oceans, Mankind, and Ethics."
File contains correspondence with Mario Ruivo, who was involved with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and a member of IWCO (Independent World Commission on the Oceans). Topics of discussion include setting up the IWCO, including revisions to the IWCO project outline, discussions of potential members of the IWCO, and other administrative matters. File contains duplicate copies of letters, which have not been digitized.
File contains correspondence with Mario Ruivo of the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations). Topics discussed include early Pacem in Maribus coferences (including the founding of a Pacem in Maribus Continuing Group for Policy Research), and the funding of several studies surrounding farming of the oceans (e.g., freeze drying fish). File also includes correspondence from S.J. Holt, a book review of "Marine pollution and sea life" (ed. by Mario Ruivo), correspondence to H. Watzinger, and correspondence to A.H. Boerma.
File contains correspondence with Glassner. Topics of discussion include Pacem in Maribus (PIM), and Glassner’s presentation on outer space at PIM XX, and matters relating to the International Ocean Institute (IOI). Includes a review of “Ocean Yearbook 7” published in Political Geography Quarterly (1991); a copy of the article "Management of Marine Resources as a Binding Force in the Eastern Caribbean" and excerpts from the book "Political Geography," both by Glassner.
File contains correspondence with Liberal Member of Parliament for Halifax, Mary Clancy. Topics of discussion include a visa application for a student at Dalhousie, support for the United Nations for the Convention for the Law of the Sea, which includes a draft resolution made by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File contains correspondence with Mary G. Langford of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), regarding the International Oceans Institute (IOI), the meeting on the Law of the Sea in Caracas, and Arvid Pardo.
File contains correspondence with former International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) board member Mary Jo Duncan. Correspondence discusses various International Ocean Institute (IOI) projects, the political situation in Canada, the ICOD, and personal matters (including Elisabeth’s dogs). Includes an International Ocean Institute project proposal for a Freestanding TA Project; a fictional story (“Cat”) by Duncan, a poem, a copy of chapter one of her book "The Two Ottos"; a project proposal for "The Two Ottos," and an etching of a cat, also by Duncan.
File contains correspondence Masako Otsuka, who worked for INTERCOM (who organized the early Independent World Commission on the Oceans' meetings). Majority of correspondence is administrative. Correspondence also discusses the death of Elisabeth's piano playing dog Claudio.
File contains material relating to "The Tides of Change: Peace, Pollution, and Potential of the Oceans," edited by Elisabeth Mann Borgese and David Krieger. File includes newspaper clippings (mainly book reviews), a contract, book catalogues for Spring 1974 and Fall 1974, and as a company profile.
File contains correspondence with Strong, some of which concerns Pacem in Maribus, the UN, and the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO). File Includes newspaper clippings (one detailing Strong's wife, Hanne Strong); a copy of a magazine interview with Strong; a copy of an address by Strong ("'Personian' Development in the 1990s") ; a conference invitation and background material (for "Building the Canadian Nation: Sovereignty and Foreign Policy in the 1990s") and materials; and a project proposal ("Proposal for a Project on Global Security and Risk Management, to be Undertaken Under the Auspices of the World Federation of United Nations Associations).
File contains correspondence, a brochure from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Incorporated, "International Aspects of Canadian Energy" by Maxwell Bruce, a Friends of International Ocean Institute (FIOI) statement of income and expenses, a brochure on the seas, "Guardian for the Future" proposal, and a questionnaire.
File contains correspondence with Bruce, which concerns a visit of his to Halifax, Pacem and Maribus (PIM) X and XIII, funding and financial matters, copies of letters to the editor of “The Times,” an article entitled “The First Chair on the Sea Bed,” “The Ocean Yearbook,” and Orio Giarini. Also contains a report by Bruce and Joseph Rotblat, “A World Energy Organization (WEO): Its Rationale and Scope.”
File includes documents sent by Annena (Nena) McKnight, on behalf of Maxwell S. McKnight (a counsel and petroleum advisor to the United States delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea). Documents sent include testimony of American Ambassador at Large and Special Representative of the President for the Law of the Sea Elliot L. Richardson given before the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, an opening statment from that committee meeting, and a transcript of remarks given at a joint meeting of the American Oceanic Organization and the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia.
File contains correspondence with Pinto, the Secretary-General of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague. Includes a copy of the "Report on the 'Pallas' Accident" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese; syllabus for a 1992 Law of the Sea Seminar; copies of the articles "Idealism and Cynicism in the Law of the Sea" and "The Duty of Co-operation and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea" both by Pinto; a copy of the report "Transfer of Technology Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea."
File contains correspondence with Petter Narfström, John Homberg, Anders Forsse, and Ernst Michanek (in part regarding the “Ocean Yearbook”), all of the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA). Also includes a SIDA factsheet, a booklet about the Swedish Commission for Technical Co-operation, another booklet in Swedish, "Guidelines for International Development Co-operation: An Activity Report," a statement by Minister Ola Ullsten, and "Role of Swedish Non-Governmental Organizations" by Ernst Michanek. Originally filed with the contents of MS-2-744, Box 155, Folder 26, and MS-2-744, Box 155, Folder 27.
File contains correspondence with Herz of "The Oceanic Society," and details ways the International Ocean Institute (IOI) and "The Oceanic Society" may work together.
File contains correspondence with Sandra Gift, Linda Vanderburgh, Federico Mayor, and Harald Gardos. Also includes review articles for "Chairworm and Supershark."
File contains correspondence regarding the publication "Chairworm and Supershark" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese and includes correspondence with Ulasta Hribar, Gloria Rodriguez Zuleta, Norma Ryan, Harald Gardos, Donald Prates, Tono Eitel, Sandra Dickinson, Masako Otsuka, Autherine Clough-Spence, Lacy A. Wright Jr., Klaus Humann, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Flario Fagnane, The Book Workshop, Children's Books USA Inc., and Luciano Chiechi. Also includes "Tronwurm und Superhai" a German translation by "Chairworm and Supershark" by Mann Borgese, a book catalogue, and book production costs.
File contains material regarding the publication "Chairworm and Supershark" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese and includes correspondence with Adrienne Ingrum, Flario Fagnani, Gruppo Ugo Mursia, Evangeline Green, Adrienne Ingrim, Gloria Rodriguez, Guiseppe Castoldi, Madeleine Coffin-Smout, Andrey Subelj, Margaret Wood, Mary Lee Trampleasure, Janice Brown, and Sergio Bollani. Also includes a memorandum of agreement and some newspaper clippings.
File is regarding the publication "Chairworm and Supershark" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese and inlcudes correspondence with Vera Hyatt, Guiseppe Castoldi, Francesca Ferrari, Jane Oliver, Adalberto Vallega, Wendy Barish, Gina Shaw, Bernette Ford, Michael McGwire, Brigetta Weeks, Paola Mucci, Adalberto Vallega, Linda Cameron, Joseph and Judith Den-Dal, Tracy Fortini, and Baker and Taylor. Also includes a memorandum of agreement and a copy of a paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese: "Common and Comprehensive Security in the World's Oceans," presenting at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies' 1992 "Maritime Interests, Conflict, and the Law of the Sea" conference.
File contains correspondence with Valerie Facey and Mill Press concerning the writing and publication of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's children's book "Chairworm and Supershark." File includes an early handwritten copy of the manuscript, a pre-publication mock-up of the book; a promotional package (which includes photographs and postcards of the illustrations); newspaper clippings; and references/work samples for illustrator Laura Facey.
File includes correspondence with Jose Israel Vargas, who was the Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology and a Vice-Chairman of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO). Topics of discussion include Japan's adoption of the Law of the Sea Convention (and how Brazil's experience could help them), and Minister Vargas asking Elisabeth to reconsider her resignation from the IWCO.
File contains correspondence with Dr. M.M.K. Sardana of the Department of Ocean Development (India). Correspondence concerns LASER research and its implications for seabed mapping, Elisabeth Mann Borgese's attempts to amend the Law of the Sea Convention before it comes into fource, and the International Ocean Institute and its training programmes. The file also includes a paper, "The Role of the Prepratory Commission in the International Seabed Authority in Implementing the Pioneer Regime."
File contains correspondence with M.S. Swaminathan, who was the Chairman of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. Includes an invitation to join the Independent World Commission on the Oceans.
File contains correspondence with Gelpke, creator of the German publication "mare." Includes copies of "Summary Report on a Two-day Visit to the Coastal Eco-Villages in Tamil Nadu, India, 12-14 Feb. 1998," a report by Elisabeth Mann Borgese for the International Ocean Institute (IOI), and "UNCLoS, UNCED, and World Order," and a forward to an unknown publication by Mann Borgese.
File contains preview lists for Oceana Publications Incorporated publications, as well as "Ocean Science News" Vol. 11, No. 9 and No. 26, and a Pacem in Maribus invitation.
File contains correspondence which refers to "Oceans," which is a publication of the Oceanic Society. Also includes is a letter from the International Ocean Institute (IOI) on the publication of one of their reports.
File contains a piece of outgoing correspondence to Dr. Arias inviting him to participate in the First Plenary Session of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO).
File contains one piece of correspondence from Paul Ekins, discussing his potential participation in the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO).
File contains correspondence with Paul Gottlieb, who was with Harry N. Abrams. Correspondence concerns "Chairworm and Supershark," "Ocean Frontiers," and Thomas Mann's diaries.
File contains correspondence with Peter Jankowitsch, ambassaror with the permanent mission of Austria to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmen (OECD), discussing Pacem in Maribus VII (seven) and the Reshaping the International Order (RIO) project. File contains duplicate copies, which have not been digitized.
File contains a Pacem in Maribus (PIM) invitation, "In anregender Absicht angelfertigter Katalog der wichtigsten Beobachtungenwährend einir langen Eisenbahnfahrt" (an article by Peter Wehrli) "Manifest der sieben punkte," and a contract relating to the German edition of Mann Borgese's "The Language Barrier."
File contains correspondence and contracts with the publishing firm. Most of thte correspondence surrounds Lord Ritchie-Calder's "The Pollution of the Mediterranean Sea," copies of which were sold at a Pacem in Maribus conference.
File contains correspondence with Philip Reynolds, who was the Senior Programme Officer in the Science, Technology and Private Sector Division of the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme). Topics of discussion include early administrative matters relating to setting up the Independent World Commission on the Ocean (e.g. securing funding).
File contains correspondence with oceanographer and lawyer Philomene Verlaan. Includes a copy of "The Future of Artisanal Fishery - Pre-project Outline" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese; a newsletter from the Law of the Sea Institute; and a copy of an article by Verlaan ("Marine Archaeology: A Trojan (Sea)Horse?") which was published in the "Ocean Yearbook."
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