Webinar held on UN’s handling of global challenges

Tribune News Service

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Jalandhar, April 19

The Department of Government and Public Administration at the School of Humanities, Lovely Professional University (LPU), organised a webinar on “United Nations Contribution in Handling Global Challenges”. Resource person for the virtual programme was the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) Representative and Country Director to India Bishow Parajuli. He has experience of 35 years in development, humanitarian affairs, diplomacy, fundraising and management in over 10 countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa including WFP headquarters in Rome.

Bishow Parajuli conversed about the role of UN in handling the global issues like refugees’ crisis, climate, diseases, Covid outbreak, food issues, poverty, technology, migration, safeguarding peace, protecting human rights, justice, and problems of governance and rule of law, atomic nuclear weapons, and many other concerns all over the world for UN. He elaborated various dimensions of the topic and discussed the challenges that the UN is currently facing, and also cited examples where the UN played a significant role in peace and security maintenance. He informed that the UN works at a country level, and operates in almost all countries of the world through its various bodies.

Parajuli also accorded thanks to LPU Executive Dean Prof Dr Sanjay Modi, faculty and students for the opportunity meted out to him.

Bishow Parajuli has brought huge honour to the Punjab, with the WFP winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2020. He completed his graduation from Punjab, with Master’s degree in rural development from Imperial College, London. Prestigious prize to WFP is for its effort to combat hunger; contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas; and, for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.