File contains a list of suggested members of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO), sorted by geographical region, with brief biographical sketches of suggested members.
File includes documents used by members of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO) during the first executive meeting held Devember 12, 1995, in Toyko. Includes agenda, budget, action calendar, program, guidelines for papers, and information on membership to IWCO.
File contains documents used by members of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO) during the first plenary session held December 13-15, 1995, at the United Nations (UN) University in Tokyo. Includes agenda, program, and a list of members. Also includes the following documents re. the establishment of IWCO: "Purpose and Terms of Reference," "Composition and Organization," "Possible Approaches to Issues for Consideration by the Commission," and "Tentative Program of Work." Some documents contain handwritten notes by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
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 Beatrice Beatrice-Ghazi, declining an invitation from the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO).
File contains correspondence with Guido De Marco (a Maltese politician), and later the Vice-Chair of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO). Topics discussed include an invitation to join the IWCO.
File contains correspondence with Tsutomu Fuse, who was a professor at Yokohama City University. Topics discussed include funding and organizing the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO).
File contains correspondence with Fujiko Hara, of DIPLOMATT, about providing interpreting and secretarial services for Independent World Commission on the Oceans' meetings. Some correspondence concerns International Ocean Institute.
File contains correspondence with Dr. Klaus Jüergen Hedrich, the Parliamentary State Secretary with the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. Correspondence includes Hedrich's CV, and discussion of the upcoming Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO) meeting in Toyko.
File contains correspondence with Professor Su Jilan of the Second Institute of Oceanography. Correspondence includes an invitation to become a member of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO).
File contains correspondence with Judge Abdul Koroma, who was a judge on the International Court of Justice. The correspondence discusses his becoming a member of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans.
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 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 Juan Somavia, an ambassador for the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations. Included is an invitation to be the Vice-President of Latin American for the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO). File contains duplicate copies of a letter which have not been digitized.
File contains correspondence with German Minister for the Environment Dr. Klaus Topfer (on financing the Independent World Commission on the Oceans). File also contains some correspondence with Topfer's assistant Annette Schmidt-Rantssch.
FIle contains an outgoing piece of correspondence to Dr. Toure, inviting him to participate in the First Plenary Session of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO).
File contains a piece of correspondence from Elisabeth Mann Borgese to Ted Turner, inviting him to participate in the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO). See correspondence with Robert Muller, MS-2-744, Box 245, Folder 28, for a copy of Turner's reply (Muller also contacted Turner about the IWCO).
File contains a report which describes why the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO) was established, its terms of reference, and the problems it will address (i.e., the coastal zone, marine pollution, marine resources, and sustainable development and the law of the sea). It also contains a table outlining the effect the 1982 Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) has had on the Oceania countries. The report was published by the International Ocean Institute (IOI) Operational Centre at the University of the South Pacific.
File includes a copy of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's keynote address at the Japan Commission Hearings, in which she discusses Japan's involvement in establishing the IWCO (Independent World Commission on the Oceans), and argues for the importance of the Commission in contributing to the economic, environmental, and security goals of the United Nations.
File contains a copy of a summary report of the regional hearing that was held at International Ocean Institute (IOI) China Operational Center in Tianjin, May 9-11, 1995. Also includes two additional summary reports: "Phase II: Workshop on the implementation of UNCLOS [United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea] in China as a Follow-Up up to The Hearing," held November 2-5, 1995 in Tianjin, China, and a brief summary report on "Phase III: Group of Experts Proposal Preparation Meeting," held December 13-14, 1995, in Tianjin, China.
File contains background documents for the meeting held in Madras, India. Includes an agenda, workplan for 1995, research and course schedules, funding and budgetary information.
File contains correspondence with Dr. Umberto Colombo, an Italian scientist and politician. Main topic of discussion was Professor Colombo joining the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO).
File contains correspondence with Nobuhiro Habuto, the Deputy Director of the Foreign News Department, NHK (on Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and ocean-mining), correspondence with and Guyana Ambassador to the United Nations Samuel R. Insanally (also on Part XI). All correspondence is outgoing only.
File contains documents pertaining to Part XI of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Includes the Boat Paper, which was a controversial paper, to which the nonpaper (which the International Ocean Institute (IOI) was involved in writing) was a response. File also includes a report from the Secretary-General's informal consultations on the topic.
File includes correspondence from Babst, who was a member of the Nuclear Peace Foundation. Includes correspondence between Babst and Robert Muller, and a report by Babst, Robert Aldridge, and David Krieger entitled "Building a Global Research Network."
File contains correspondence with Japanese Member of Parliament Yuzuru Shimazaki (on the implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention of the Law on the Law of the Sea), Keith Suter, Danielle de St. Jorre (on problems with the Secretary-General's Consultations on the Law of the Sea), Margaret Wood of the International Ocean Institute (IOI), and Layachi Yaker (the letter to Yaker is missing a page).
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 concerning Elisabeth Mann Borgese's "Chairworm and Supershark," "Ocean Frontiers" (the bulk of the correspondence), "The Mines of Neptune," and Klaus Mann's diaries. File Includes book reviews; contract; and a copy of a proposal for "Ocean Frontiers," and a draft chapter ("Impare, Peru") from that book.
File contains news clippings and a copy of an article about Elisabeth Mann Borgese. Contains mainly profiles, and coverage of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's receiving an honourary degree from Mount Saint Vincent University. Originally filed with the newspaper clippings from files MS-2-744, Box 207, Folder 11 and MS-2-744, Box 209, Folder 9.
File contains agendas, reports, case studies, lists of participants, brochures and handwritten notes from the seminar, which was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia between March 28 and April 2, 1994. Elisabeth Mann Borgese was the coordinator for one of the sessions (April 1, 1994), and made several presentations. The seminar was sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the International Ocean Institute (IOI), and the IOI's Africa office. Several of the case studies relate to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS) and landlocked Africian nations. File contains duplicate copies, which have not been digitized.
File contains correspondence with Elizabeth Dowdeswell, the Executive Director of UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme). Topics of discussion include an invitation to join the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO), which Dowdeswell declined.
File contains a piece of correspondence to Dolliver Nelson, who was from DOALOS (Division for Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea), Legal Affairs, United Nations Secretariat. Letter discusses plans for Nelson to write a paper on the International Sea-bed Authority.
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 outgoing correspondence only. Some correspondence concerns Pacem in Maribus (PIM) XXIII, and Warioba writing a paper on the Law of the Sea and developing countries.
File contains correspondence with Austrian Ambassador Karl Wolf. Some correspondence concerns PrepCom, Pacem in Maribus conferences and International Ocean Institute. Other topics of discussion included the "Boat Paper" and the Koroma nonpaper. File also includes a copy of "Alternative Models for Pioneer Cooperation in Exploration, Technology Development, and Training" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. See also MS-2-744, Box 114, Folder 7 and MS-2-744, Box 114, Folder 8 for more correspondence with Ambassador Wolf on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
File contains correspondence with the Publishing company Franco Angelia, and concerns Elisabeth Mann Borgese's contribution to the Ocean Change Publication Series, entitled "Changing International Ocean Policy" (for which Adalberto Vallega was Editor-in-Chief). Also contains comments by Mann Borgese on Vallega's introduction.
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 contains Includes cards and prints from A.K. Armah (Dept. of Zoology, University of Ghana), Sidney and Leslie Holt, VWS Berlin, Mark and Wendy Britten, Carolee and David Krieger, World Maritime University, Agamemnon Xenophontos of Cyprus, originally found in loose collection of greeting cards. Greeting cards have been moved to a different location.
File contains greeting cards from A.K. Armah (University of Ghana), Sidney and Leslie Holt, VWS Berlin, C. Julius G. Ndalama, Mark and Wendy Britten, and Agamemnon Xenophontos. Originally came with photographs.
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 documents concerning the International Ocean Institute (IOI)'s proposed project to produce spirulina, an edible algae that grows in salt water and can be used as a source of food in case of famine or other emergencies. File includes Memorandum of Understanding between the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), International Ocean Institute, and Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission, project proposals, agendas, and a statement by IOI President Layashi Yaker. For related documents, see MS-2-744, Box 260, File 1 and MS-2-744, Box 260, File 2.
File contains correspondence with the following: Judge Abdul Koroma (on the boat paper, and attachments: A speech on that paper, the "Anderson Paper," a "Draft Resolution for Adoption by the General Assembly," an "Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea"); Ambassador Ramtane Lamamara (outgoing only, on the need to rally Group 77 countries on ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea); Patricia Lewis; and Dr. Luis Preval (on Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea).
File contains a report on the International Ocean Institute's stationary, discussing the upcoming conference, by providing descriptions of the participants, and the impact the conference could have on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS III).
File contains a letter by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, sent to those attempting to rewrite Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, encouraging adoption of the PrepCom regime agreed on in the mid 1980s.
File contains correspondence. Correspondents include the Permanent Ambassador of Jamaica to the United Nations Lucille Mair (attached is a copy of the G-77 Draft Paper); Ambassador Don Mills; Claude Morel (Ministry of the Environment, Economic Planning and External Relations for Seychelles) ; Satya Nandan (attached is a statement by Elisabeth Mann Borgese to the United Nation's Commission for Sustainable Development), Professor Kaldone Nweihed (sent with a list of countries that have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea); Chinese Premier Li Peng; M.C.W. (Chris) Pinto; Steve Polansky; Senator Claiborne Pell (sent with the non-paper: "Agreement on the Implementation of Part XI and Annexes III and IV of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea"); and Jan Pronk.
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