World problems / Strategic potential

International Organization Information / Research: 1995 (Part #2)

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Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential: Work on the 4th edition of this 3-volume publication commenced at the beginning of 1993. The first two volumes were successfully completed in April 1994. See Annex 2 for statistics.

Work on the third volume, agreed in March 1994, has continued since June 1994 and is scheduled for completion in June 1995. It covers "Actions - Strategies - Solutions" employed or envisaged by international organizations and constituencies. At present the database covers some 18,000"strategies", although only 4,000 have any descriptive text. As with the other volumes, much effort is being devoted to relationships between strategies, and in this case also to the "problems" in Volume 1 and to the organizations in the Yearbook. The publication is expected to be some 750 pages. See Annex 3 for a general description.

The project is designed to build on existing advantages:

• work done on strategies for the 1986 edition of the Encyclopedia
• information in UIA files, or available, on strategy material from international organizations
• skills developed by the editor of the world problems section of the Encyclopedia

Consideration is being given to the transfer of world problems information in Volume 3 of the Yearbook to Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia in order to create more space in the former product and to increase the marketability of the latter.