Raymond Saner

Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development | CSEND

The precarious rights of senior citizens, especially those who are highly educated and who are expected to counsel and guide the younger generations, has stimulated the creation internationally of advocacy associations and opinion leader groups. The strength of these groups, however, varies from country to country. In some countries, they are suppo...

This is a collective undertaking by authors who are members of WAPPP and two who are also members of UNECE PPP Bureau. The intention of this paper is to contribute to the development of PPP theory and practice and to make the PPPs fit the SDGs as best as they can. The paper reflects the individual authors’ assessments of the current state of PPP de...

Gefragt ist solide Handarbeit und Offenheit für Neues Das Berufsbild des Diplomaten hat sich über die Jahrhunderte in der Folge politischer, gesellschaftlicher und technologischer Entwicklungen verändert. Auf der anderen Seite gibt es auch Eigenschaften und Fertigkeiten von Diplomaten, die schon immer zur Kultur dieses Berufs gehören. Beides soll h...

The job profile of a diplomat has changed over the centuries as a result of political, social and technological developments. On the other hand, there are also characteristics and skills of diplomats that have always been part of the culture of this profession. Both shall be discussed here in order to answer the question; what is a diplomat?

Le profil professionnel du diplomate a changé au cours des siècles en raison des évolutions politiques, sociales et technologiques. D'autre part, il existe des qualités et des compétences de diplomates qui ont toujours fait partie de la culture de la profession. Les deux seront montrés ici afin d'aborder la question; Qu'est-ce qu'un diplomate ?

Gefragt ist solide Handarbeit und Offenheit für Neues Das Berufsbild des Diplomaten hat sich über die Jahrhunderte in der Folge politischer, gesellschaftlicher und technologischer Entwicklungen verändert. Auf der anderen Seite gibt es auch Eigenschaften und Fertigkeiten von Diplomaten, die schon immer zur Kultur dieses Berufs gehören. Beides soll h...

difference between old and new forms of diplomat status

The International Association of Applied Psychology's (IAAP) mission at the United Nations (UN) is to share science and practice about applied psychology and to advocate for issues in processes, agreements, and negotiations. The UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development is the current context for activities and advocacy. The IAAP representatives a...

Cities can be incubators for innovation and key drivers of sustainable development. The conditionality for urban landscapes to be inclusive, will depend on the creativity for new orders and new strategies for social and cultural integration. The crucial role of urban landscapes in promoting sustainable development is notably recognized in the 2030...

Published as: Saner, Raymond; "Cyprus conflict and social capital theory: a new perspective on an old conflict", in Michaelene Cox, "Social Capital and Peace Building", creating and solving conflict with trust and networks", Routledge, London, 2009, pp 139-155. Abstract This article brings a new perspective to the analysis of the Cyprus conflict. B...

Since the Great Depression of 2008 interest has grown in inclusive organizations that share ownership, participation and profits such as worker cooperatives, employee stock ownership plans (ESOP’s), perpetual trusts, and employee-owned collectives. All such organizations would fall under Paul Adler’s (2016) definition of alternative economic future...

Climate Warming continues and the increase in world temperature has reached alarming heights. Taking into account the warning of the great majority of scientists, there is real risk that keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is seriously in jeopardy and countries have to do much more...

Philanthropic organisations (PO) are important partners in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in regard to capacity building for education in Developing Countries (DCs) especially regarding Goal 4 education and Goal 17 partnerships. The POs contributions in DCs are important but their own strategic intent and the developmen...

Learning from intersectoral coordination of Decent Work in the context of the PRSPs and how this learning informs SDG implementation

Purpose: The aim of this chapter is to describe and discuss the growing intersection of roles and functions between states and multinationals in the field of diplomacy and how diplomatic skills are needed to support transnational companies in their search for markets in emerging countries. Design/methodology/approach: Given the rapidly changing int...

The international agreement on the Sustainable Development Goals signed in 2015 specify that the SDGs will be implemented by national governments and that countries should also embark on SDG implementation at subnational level such as municipalities or provinces. This paper focuses on SDG implementation at local authority level of large cities and...

Ths project aims to provide a menu of innovative ways in which the international community can engage with all sides in the four so-called “frozen conflcts” – protracted conflcts on the territory of the former USSR that include the Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transdniestria conflcts. Th engagement we recommend does not impinge upon the e...

Even though the COP21 meeting in Paris concluded on a positive note, the implementation of mitigation and adaptation measures remains based on non-binding proposals and promises made by the countries who took part in COP21. In addition, the solutions discussed so far are based on the assumption and hope that new technologies will be developed that...

http://www.csend.org/images/articles/files/Raymond_Saner_Interview_Seoul_2015.pdf Digital Art Weeks.: Is there really a need for change and it is more acute today than it might have been yesterday? Raymond Saner: To answer this question adequately, one has to move from a local to a global perspective. Even though many of the social problems today t...

“Hierarchies of Failure and Hierarchies of Solutions” presents four failures in hierarchical order namely market failure, government failure, academic failure and societal failures and provides solutions to all four forms of failure

This book titled "Environmental conflicts in Latin America” offers in –depth analysis of environmental conflicts from a multi-stakeholder perspective in Latin American countries such as Brazil, Columbia, Chile-Argentina and Columbia-Ecuador. The case examples offer analyses based on established negotiation theory and show actors such as governments...

The aim of this chapter is to describe and discuss the growing intersection of roles and functions between states and multinationals in the field of diplomacy and how diplomatic skills are needed to support transnational companies in their search for markets in emerging countries. Transnational enterprises face multi-stakeholder engagements in the...

In this book the social scientist and economist Professor Dr. Raymond Saner draws on his long years of experience as a negotiation adviser, teacher, trainer, researcher and university lecturer to show that two thirds of negotiation practice is learnable. The author treats the different aspects of negotiation practice in a way that is useful to both...

The goal of this chapter is to describe factors that have contributed to the persistent failures of peace negotiations on Cyprus. Although there are several causes of this protracted deadlock, such as identity issues (see P. Terrence Hopmann's chapter, "Issue Content and Incomplete Negotiations"), and the power issue for the two communities, this c...

The educational market has grown in size with more exporters entering the field to satisfy growing demand worldwide. The education sector today truly operates in a global context with institutions, programmes, and people supplying services across borders at an unprecedented scale. Yet, one of the anomalies of the education sector is that, despite t...

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Tourism is a significant contributor to GDP, employment and to the international appreciation of a country and its culture – regardless of its level of development. This policy analysis seeks to assist the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in harnessing development opportunities by providing a comprehensive overview of existing international develop...

Negotiations at WTO and UNFCCC are both in limbo putting at risk international cooperation in key sectors of world development. International governance options are urgently needed to strengthen multilateral negotiations at the WTO and UNFCCC to avoid full deadlock and possible major trade and environmental conflicts. This policy brief written in J...

Following the economic crisis and the suppression of many jobs worldwide, it is difficult to address the issue of labour shortage. In Switzerland, the lack of workers was very evident before the crisis and will continue to be problematic for the country’s social welfare system for decades to come. Indeed, each economic sector will be affected by th...

"Negotiation is all around us, all the time and at all levels. It makes up an important part of our daily lives, whether business or private. Let's take a simple example: in a marriage partnership, each of the partners needs to bring a willingness to live with both the similarities and the differences of the couple - a situation of constant negotia...

on state actors like Business Diplomats and Transnational Economic NGO Diplomats with their multitude of transborder alliances and pressure groups have added to the traditional domain of economic diplomacy a "supraterritorial relations" component and are thereby partially undermining sovereignty of states in conducting international economic relati...

This article explores the involvement of the IMF in influencing the setting of trade policy and tariff regimes of low-income countries, in the specific context of the HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) initiative and the related PRGF (Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility) lending mechanism. The authors begin by discussing, in brief terms, the...

Since it was conceived in 1997, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has become much more concrete, and expectations and reality are beginning to confront one another in the emerging carbon marketplace. This article provides an overview of this innovative policy instrument, which is an element of the United Nations Kyoto Protocol, and questions th...

In an increasing integrated global economy, Switzerland and Swiss MNCs are facing unique challenges in sustaining their economic success. Both the nation and the MNCs have to be effective in managing the delicate balance between asserting its independence and standards and paying a minimum price. Business diplomacy in this context is not only part...

We have now staked out the framework for a successful negotiation. We know our needs. We know exactly what we want. We also have an idea what our negotiation partner wants of us, and what we can offer him. To put all this together in a single package will require considerable patience, creativity and cooperation. First of all, we need to make a car...

Sind bilaterale deutsche Botschaften innerhalb der Europäischen Union noch zeitgemäß? Haben sie überhaupt noch etwas zu tun, wo doch alles in Brüssel verhandelt und beschlossen wird? Welche Rolle bleibt dem deutschen Botschafter in London, wenn der Bundeskanzler und der britische Premierminister regelmäßig miteinander telefonieren und die beiden Au...

Das Berufsbild des Diplomaten hat sich über die Jahrhunderte in der Folge politischer, gesellschaftlicher und technologischer Entwicklungen verändert. Auf der anderen Seite gibt es auch Eigenschaften und Fertigkeiten von Diplomaten, die schon immer zur Kultur dieses Berufs gehört haben. Beides soll hier gezeigt werden, um sich der Frage zu nähern:...

Globalization exerts powerful pressures on our national government and public administrations. Most distinctive are the pressures regarding public management effectiveness and the internationalization of the civil service. The former demands that traditional public administrative culture be transformed into a managerial culture, the latter involves...

1) OVERVIEW This article sets out to provide an overview of the field of national competitiveness studies and its relation to high quality human resources and correspondingly to high quality education and training. In particular, the author's goal here is to develop the reasons why countries increasingly need well trained and motivated human resour...

This article sets out what global companies could learn from diplomacy and how global companies could improve their effectiveness by setting up a company-wide Business Diplomacy Management function and by developing and utilizing competent in-house Business Diplomacy Managers. This will ensure successful management of two simultaneous challenges b...

Der Handel in Erziehungsprodukten (ES) tangiert die Handels-, Wirtschafts-, Erziehungs- und Kulturinteressen vieler Länder und führt zu erhitzten Debatten zwischen Regie- rungsvertretern, privaten Investoren, Lehrkörpern und Studentenvereinigungen. Ein Abkommen über GATS/ES sollte genügend flexibel sein, so dass die unterschiedlichen Bedürfnisse so...

Synopsis The goal of this paper is to present the case example of China's effort to develop its fut ure leaders of the public sector. This case example will first describe the leadership model currently in use in China as the basic framework of assessment, selection and development of leaders befitting the tasks requirements of the 21st century. Na...

This paper explores the involvement of the IMF in influencing the setting of trade policy and tariff regimes of low-income countries. The authors present, in brief terms, a legal critique of the Fund's mandate on trade, notably in what pertains to surveillance activities and conditionality; in this section, the authors analyse whether the broadenin...

This contribution focuses on the drivers, determinants and policy implications of low-carbon FDI, with particular attention to developing countries. 1 Parts of this paper served as an input to Chapter IV of the World Investment Report 2010, which examined the issue of TNCs and Climate Change. The authors are however free to use all of the reflectio...