We are pleased to inform you the UNU-ONY is organizing a Booklaunch, titled Globalization and Environmental Challenge:

Reconceptualizing Security in the 21st Century (III) (Berile-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag, 2008). The event will be held on Tuesday, 22 April 2008, from 3 pm to 6pm, in Conference Room 5 at the Untied Nations Headquarters, New York.

The book launch will be highlighted new concept by contributions by assessing the global reconceptualization of security triggered by the end of the Cold War, globalization and manifold impacts of global environmental change in the early 21st century.

Speakers will include:

· Hans Günter Brauch, Editor, Free University of Berlin and UNU-EHS

.Jürgen Dedring, Professor of CUNY and NYU

.Marc Levy, Columbia University

The event will conclude with a discussion session.For more information and to register, please visit us online at http://www.ony.unu.edu, or contact Ms. Kyunghee Kim at kyunghee@ony.unu.edu

With kind regards,

Jean-Marc Coicaud, Head, UNU-ONY