Ex-President R. I. Otunbayeva – Member of the Advisory council for the UN University in Costa Rica

A 3-year report is suggested for the UN’s Peace Universities at the October 19th, 2015 General Assembly for the UN’s 4th committee. The UN’s Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon along with the Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova has named the Director of the Office of the UN Secretary General’s Chef de Cbinet Fernando Blasko as a member of the council of the University for Peace. 

The current council is as the following (taken from the 2012-2015 General Director of the University for Peace’s report): The University for Peace’s Council is made of 17 members of which 10 are appointed and seven are ex officio members. The following Council Members have been appointed by the chair of the council: Council Chair Aristides Royo (Panama), Deputy Chair Hal Klepak (Canada), John Arno (France), Alicia Barcena (Mexico), Jean-Jacques Grass (Belgium), Bakaka Hironaka (Japan), Monica K. Juma (Kenya), and Roza Otunbayeva (Kyrgyzstan), and Fernando Blasco (Argentina), and the following members ex officio: University of Peace Provost Francisco Rohas Aravena (Chile), Chancellor (and nominated for President) Judy Chen-Hopkins (Malaysia), UNESCO’s General Director’s Representative Pilar Alvaras-Laso (Mexico), The United Nation’s University of Peace Provost David Malone, Representative of the Costa Rica Government Juani Guzman (Costa Rica), and Costa Rica Government Representative and Costa Rica First Lady Mercedes Penas.

Information: The University of Peace in Costa Rica was established in 1980 with the mission "to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace and with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations".