A History of UNESCO Global Actions and Impacts [Paperback]

The mission UNESCO, as defined just after the end of World War II, is to build 'the defenses of peace in the minds of men'. In this book, historians trace the routes of selected UNESCO mental engineering initiatives from its headquarters in Paris to the member states, to assess UNESCO's global impact.

The mission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as defined just after the end of World War II, is to construct intellectual and moral solidarity in order to build 'the defenses of peace' in the minds of men and women. The Organization has therefore carried out a considerable amount of mental engineering.Historians have so far uncovered the roots of many of the soft power initiatives launched to construct sincere solidarity between people, but we still know very little about their impact. In this publication, leading historians within the field trace the routes of selected initiatives from the center to the periphery from UNESCO's headquarters in Paris to the member states to assess UNESCO's global impact from World War II and up till today.1. Introduction: Out of the House: On the Global History of UNESCO, 1945-2015; Poul Duedahl
PART I: ROUTES OF KNOWLEDGE
2. Popularizing Anthropology, Combating Racism; Edgardo C. Krebs
3. Weapons of Mass Distribution: UNESCO and the Central Role of Books; C?line Giton
4. And Action!: UN and UNESCO Coordinating Information Films, 1945-1951; Suzanne Langlois
PART II: REBUILDING A WORLD DEVASTATED BY WAR
5. Child Victims, UNESCO and the Promotion of International Model of Children's Communities after World War II; Samuel Boussion, Mathias Gardet and Martine Ruchat
6. Returning to the International Community: UNESCO and Postwar Japan, 1945-1951; Takashi Saikawa
7. Pursuing Peace through a 'Library-Minded' World; Miriam Intrator
PART III: EXPERTS ON THE GROUND
8. UNESCO's Fundaml'