File contains a note by Elisabeth Mann Borgese concerning the Boat Paper and Nonpaper. It is possible this note was distributed to those involved with the Secretary-General's informal consultations on the topic.
File contains correspondence, agenda, list of participants, and a report relating to the NGO (Non-Governmental Organizations) Roundtable on Straddling and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, organized by the United Nations Association in Canada. The International Ocean Institute (IOI) attended the conference.
File contains material relating to Elisabeth Mann Borgese’s and the International Ocean Institute (IOI)’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Includes letters of support from Sunil Murlidhar Shastri and Henry Demone (HighLiner Foods), also includes a sample form letter, two copies of the nomination package, a list of individuals contacted for a nomination, and a list of individuals on the IOI-Canada’s Advisory Board.
File contains a copy of an article by Elisabeth Mann Borgese published in the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions' magazine. The article discusses humanity's biological and cultural evolution.
File contains a report on the Ninth Session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS III), possibly by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. The report discusses, among other things, the Informal Composite Negotiating Text (ICNT), and establishing a Seabed Authority.
File contains documents, relating to the joint meeting of the Planning Council and the Board of Trustees, held in Vienna on October 31, 1980. Discussed at the meeting was the role of the International Ocean Institute (IOI) in post-United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS), current projects ("Ocean Yearbook," and training projects), an assessment for Pacem in Maribus (PIM) X, future PIM conferences, and budgetary matters. The file also contains several annexes: (1) Excerpts from a letter Dr. Jorge Vargas, (2) "The Establishment of an International League for the Protection of Cetaceans," a project proposal, (3) "Proposal for a Research Project in Cooperation with the International Institute for Applied System Analysis," and (4) "IOI Statues: Draft Amendments." The file also contains a memo from Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File includes various newpaper articles. Includes an editorial by Elisabeth Mann Borgese sent to the Globe and Mail and Canadian politicans on why Canada needs to ratify the Convention on the Law of the Sea, a copy of "Bury the Law of the Sea Treaty" by Doug Bandow, letters from Elisabeth Mann Borgese to the editor of the New York Times, responding to an article by Steven Greenhouse, correspondence, and relevant articles from the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Sunday Star-Ledger.
File includes both ICOD and Canadian government news releases. Titles of specific releases are: "ICOD announces first fellowships for studies by foreign students in Canada," "ICOD Sponsors Project to Assist South Pacific Countries," "OECS and ICOD Enter into Fisheries Project," and "New Employment Equity Program for Federal Crown Corporations = Nouveau programme d'équité en matiere d'emploi dans les societes d'état fédérales."
File contains new releases issued by or about the ICOD. Topics include regarding DELMAR (delimitation of maritime boundaries software), ICOD vice-president appointment, Think Tank, Task Force on Oceans, South Pacific Ocean Development, development, and training courses. File includes a background document on the South Pacific by ICOD.
File contains an article by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, outlining the difficulties at a recent session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS). One of her main criticisms was UNCLoS's failure to focus on the needs of the developing world.
File includes correspondence to R.A. Ness (of the Ambassador Trading Company) and Satya Nanden (of the United Nations). Topics discussed include the Law of the Sea and Micronesia, and the Preparatory Commission for the International Sea-Bed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
File contains correspondence with: Dr. R. Natarajan; Constantin Nielson; Joachim Neubauer; Dr. Roland Nagel; Dolliver Nelson; Michael M. Novac; Hiroyuki Nakahara; Dr. David A. Munro (of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), contains comments by Elisabeth Mann Borgese on a draft work on sustainability); Papa Ndiaye (attached is an agenda for Pacem in Maribus (PIM) XVII); and Pete Nagel (concerning oil spills and PIM XVII). Some correspondence may be personal.
File contains an essay by Elisabeth Mann Borgese on the influence of the oceans have inspired art, and an argument about how music is the art form that is the closest to nature (and, thus, the oceans). States on the front, in pencil, that it was sent to Eberhard Goerner.
File contains correspondence with Mathilde Widl, Peter K. Wahrli, Krzystof Wodiczko,and Mimi Wheeler. Some of the correspondence concerns the death of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's mother.
File includes copies of speeches and papers by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. Includes: "Music and Oceans," "Bioprospecting and Access to the Genetic Resources in the Area" (likely an excerpt from a larger work), "Working Paper: Analysis of Debate on Coordination," a copy of "Neuschottlände Bote," which contains a copy of Mann Borgese's convocation address given at Dalhousie in 1998 ("Meeting at a Crossroads"), and an article on her, "The Oceanic Circle" (a speech given by Mann Borgese upon receiving an honorary degree from Yokohama City University), "Report on the 'Pallas' Accident," "Oil and Gas and the Oceans," (a lecture given by Mann Borgese to the Coady International Institute), "Global Civic Culture," an unidentified speech given in celebration of the International Year of the Ocean (1998), and "The Future of the Oceans."
File includes several miscellaneous documents, including: 1) "Resolution II: Co-ordination of Marine Activities," 2) a declaration involving the peaceful uses of the seabed, 3) an article about mineral exploration in Gabon, 4) an article about mining in Africa, 5) "Financial Terms of Contracts," 6) an address to an unidentified chairman; 7) handwritten financial arrangements; 8) "Economic Impact of Deep Sea Mining"; 9) a partial copy of the 28th Session of the General Assembly; 10) "An Ocean Resources Agency," 11) a partial statute, and 12) Section 4 - Comments on the new model. The part 1 of this file is in MS-2-744, Box 136, Folder 10.
File contains a progress report from Elisabeth Mann Borgese on International Ocean Institute (IOI) activities, "Report of Travel to Geneva, 6th to 8th November, 1983" by IOI Executive Director C.F. Vanderbilt, and a handwritten document by Maxwell Bruce regarding the funding of International Ocean Institute.
File contains correspondence with Fred Warner Neal, Patti Hagan, and Rosemarie Noris, some of which concerns the death of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's mother.
File contains correspondence regarding Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sigerson, from [Marie?], to [Unkie?], from [Peter?], [T.? -indecipherable], [Jacques Piccard], Cathy Enright, [Humberto and Alara Gristancho], [Johan], Bruce Kubert, and an invitation from one of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's dogs.
File includes the following papers by Elisabeth Mann Borgese: "Proposal for the Establishment of a Committee of the Whole to Deal Effectively with Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea," "The Convention: A birds-eye view," "UNICPOLOS [United Nations Informal Consultative Process on the Oceans and the Law of the Sea]:The first session," "On the Agenda", "Law of the Sea for the Twenty-[first] Century", "The Future of the Oceans: Challenges and Policies for UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] at Horizon 2020", "Enhancing Sustainable Development and Human Security in the Ocean", a draft of "Integrating Sustainable Development and Regional Security", "Ocean Governance and the Secretary-General's Agenda for Peace", "The Ocean Assembly", "Agrigento", "New Ways to Govern the Seas", "UNCLoS +5", "Fiji, USP", and a policy paper.
File contains documents originally housed in a large binder with other United Nations (UN) materials and the contents of MS-2-744, Box 117, File 4, MS-2-744, Box 117, File 6, MS-2-744, Box 117, File 7, and MS-2-744 Box 117, File 8. Includes memos to Austrian Ambassador Karl Wolf and Anton Vratusa from Elisabeth Mann Borgese. Topics discussed include the Group of 77, and establishing an institutional headquarters for the Law of the Sea in Malta.
File contains materials from the Second and Third Committees including Articles (with applicable revisions and corrections), a report to the First Committee on the work of Negotiating Group 3 (Three), compromise suggestions by the Chairman of Negotiating Group 4 (Four) and other reports, in particular "Reports of the Committees and Negotiating Groups" submitted at the seventh session.
File contains informal suggestions by various countries, "Financial Arrangements of the Authority" (redrafted versions of the relevant articles of the convention), "Financing the Enterprise," meeting minutes (mainly on the protection and preservation of the marine environment), a memorandum of the group of land-locked and geographically disavantaged states "On the Rights of the Land-Locked and Geographically Disadvantaged States in the Economic Zone," and a memorandum by Peru (as co-ordinator of the group of coastal states). Parts 1 and 2 of this file are in MS-2-744, Box 120, File 7 and MS-2-744, Box 120, File 8, respectively.
File contains informal suggestions by various countries, informal meeting notes, a provisional list of delegations, "Financing the Enterprise," a presentation by various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the issue of seabed mining, a speech by a United Kingdom (UK) delegate on the transfer of technology, notes for Minister Jens Evensen's summation, some handwritten notes (including some by Elisabeth Mann Borgese), and a list of participants. Parts 1 and 3 of this file are in MS-2-744, Box 120, File 7 and MS-2-744, Box 120, FIle 9, respectively.
File contains draft ammendments, various articles, suggested compromise formulae, a note by Tommy Koh, "Financial arrangements of the Enterprise", informal conference room documents, Chairman's reports, a report by an ad hoc group on the relationship between disarmament and development, a memo by the group of landlocked states, informal meeting notes, a memo by Peru, committee records and various informal suggestions. Parts 2 and 3 of this file are in MS-2-744, Box 120, File 8 and MS-2-744, Box 120, File 9, respectively.
File includes three doucments (one resultion, a report, and a proposal). Specific documents include 1) a draft resolution on the law of the sea from Sri Lanka, 2) "Review of the Sixth Session of the Law of the Sea Conference" by Kazou Sumi, and 3) a proposal by Maxwell Bruce entitled "Advocate for the Unborn."
File contains handwritten notes, some by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, and some in another hand, many organized by country. Includes a list of individuals who attended a meeting on April 22, 1978. Also includes an agenda, and notes (some shorthand) from that meeting.
This file contains a page of handwritten notes by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. Appear to be translations of Charles Baudelaire's poem "L'Homme et la Mer" ("Man and the Sea"). This poem was quoted in Mann Borgese's "The Drama of the Oceans."
Includes a note encouraging the adoption of the "Nonpaper" over the "Boat Paper;" a copy of a paper titled, "Jamaica Breakfast Club," which also concerned deep seabed mining.
File contains correspondence with M. VanDyke, McGraw-Hill, Allswell Osini Muzan (The International Law Society at Lewis University College of Law), Ambassador Pacific Fisheries Ltd., Christian Maguieira, Arvid Pardo, Jane Scheiber, Veda Bohlander, Geneva S. Douglas, William A. Greenwald, Jean Uppman, the Law Library at the University of Washington, G. Gross, Ignatia O.S.H., Ellen Sniberger, and Mavin Mondlin (of the "Yearbook of International Organizations").
File contains correspondence as well as a document entitled "Declaration of Legal Principles Governing the Reservation Exclusively for Peaceful Purposes of the Sea-bed and Ocean floor, and the Sub-soil thereof, underlying the High Seas beyond the Limits of Present National Jurisdiction, and the Uses of their Resources in the Interests of Mankind." Correspondence is to/from: J. Pronk (UNCTAD - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), [Kolodkin], [Vratusa], [Bromley] (UNIDO - United Nations International Development Organization), G. Hafner, and H.A.L. Francis (UN-ECLA - United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America).
File contains correspondence with Mohamed Amir, Douglas Faulkner, Sidney [Holt], Christopher Bett, Kip [?], John Hochmann, and RLG. Topics of discussion mainly include Elisabeth Mann Borgese's "The Drama of the Oceans," and a Peace in Maribus (PIM) prospectus.
File contains correspondence with Steve [?], Harry N Abrams Inc., Clifton Fadiman (providing comments on "The Drama of the Ocean"), Unicorn Press, Walter Berendsoha, S. Fischer Verlag, Elsivier, Bruce Matthews, Brooda, Suzanne Williams, Ton Waarts, Wiley Publishers of Canada Ltd., McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., Rolf Bjornerstedt, James Stretch, Rob ?, Bobbie Campbell, Anthony Carter, Olof Cederlund, Roger Henri Charlier, Joyce Church, Elizabeth Clarke, Alan Cober, Canute Sauage, Peter Haz, Sidney Kaufman, Partab Bharvani, Martin Cregien, Ivo Pelicon, and Janeth Ewald. Also includes an obituary for Mann Borgese's dog Arlecchino ("Arlie"), an IOI (International Ocean Institute) Report, and a membership form from the Western Surfing Association.
File contains correspondence to/from Martin Glassna, Ahmed El Sherbini, Mr. R.J.A. Harper, Stjepan Keckes (regarding nomination of the International Ocean Institute (IOI) for the Tyler foundation prize), Jane Dunning, V. Soesanto, Paul Eamela Engo (Yaouncle), Jim [Barner] (The Antarctic Project), Salvino Busuttil (with resume and IOI recommendations), H.E. Ambassador Layachi Yaker, Geoffrey Kesteven, and [Annette].
File contains correspondence with Christane Groelin, Brooden, University of Chicago - Josh, Francis Childe, R.H. Charlier, R.E. Robertson, Christopher R. Willoughby, Maivan Clech Lam, Sally Le Messurier, R.B. Byers, G.L. Kisteven, Joan Fernandes, Antony Dolman, Jacqueline Junke, Energey Publications, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, William Epstein, Editorial alhanbra, s.a., Alva Myrdal, Elsevier Books International, Martinis Nyhoff Publications, Gary Smith, Mark Swanson, Martin Glassner, Brian Flemming, Azim Husain, R.B. Byers, T.S.S. Rao, Gerardo Budowski, Alfred Scherz Verlag, and "The Humanist." Also includes "World Order and the Law of the Sea" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, "Recommendations by Pacem in Maribus V to the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea" by Mann Borgese, and newspaper clippings.
Includes the Rules of Procedure, First Committee resolutions, other resolutions, political poetry, handwritten notes, a list of contacts, a declaration on UNCLoS, and a draft version of the Convention on the Law of the Sea. Also includes a letter from P. Kirthisingha (UNCTAD).
File contains published and draft versions of various International Ocean Institute (IOI) brochures. Most provide general overviews of the IOI's work (including Pacem in Maribus (PIM) conferences, "Ocean Yearbook" publications, members of the Governing Board, and brief histories of the institution). Also contains some correspondence relating to the brochures.
File contains four brochures. One on the Friends of the International Ocean Institute (IOI); a draft of one from the IOI entield "Pacem in Maribus" (from the 1978 PIM conference); an agenda for Pacem in Maribus (PIM) IX; and one for the "Foundation for Sustainable Development (India)," which was produced by the IOI.
File contains budgets from the International Ocean Institute (IOI), for the years 1978 and 1980. The file also contains a report on the activites of the IOI between 1979-1980 (discussing training programmes and Pacem in Maribus (PIM) X), a summary of current and forthcoming activities for the period of 1980-1983, and lists of members of various boards and bodies of the IOI.
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