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David Chikvaidze
Chikvaidze, David
Chikvaidze, DavidChief-of-Cabinet, Director General of the United Nations in Geneva; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science |
Job Title
Chief-of-Cabinet, Director General of the United Nations in Geneva; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science
David Chikvaidze is serving as Chef de Cabinet to his third Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), he occupied this position before, from 2006 to 2011. In 2011-2013, he was Director of the UN Library at Geneva and Chairman of the UNOG Cultural Activities Committee. He has worked for over thirty-three years in the foreign, government and international civil services. He is also a Fellow of WAAS.
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
Reclaiming the Global Future
( Peace and Security ), ( Global Governance & Law )
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We are today living not in a mere shifting environment but a pivotal moment. The essentials of eras change only every century or so, when the existing social and economic paradigm has exhausted itself and a new one emerges. The era we have entered upon began with the end of the Cold War. Yet, neither the end of an ideological standoff nor even the disappearance of a major empire necessarily makes a new era. Rather, some deeper event seems to be evolving in...
Multilateralism: Its Past, Present and Future
( International Organizations ), ( Social Science ), ( Knowledge, Science & Values )
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Abstract
The narrative ‘sweeps through’ history, starting with the Treaties of Westphalia in 1648, on to the Congress of Vienna of 1814-15, to the current terminology of ‘modern multilateralism’ with its lineage from the Versailles Treaty of 1919 and the League of Nations, to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods in 1944, the European Coal and Steel Community of 1950, to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1970 and concluding the...
Global Leadership in the 21st Century
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Editorial Note: This article is the initial background paper for a 15-month project entitled “Global Leadership in the 21st Century” launched by WAAS in collaboration with the United Nations in Geneva at a one-day roundtable hosted by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, Baku, Azerbaijan on March 17, 2019. The paper explores fundamental questions in order to identify ways to consciously foster and accelerate the development of leadership so urgently needed to...