UNSA's Faculty Advisors

Faculty Advisor - Professor George Andreopoulos

George Andreopoulos is Associate Professor of Government and a member of the doctoral faculty of the Political Science and Criminal Justice programs at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center. He is also the Director of the recently established Center for International Human Rights. Professor Andreopoulos studied history, law, and international relations at the Universities of Chicago and Cambridge. Before coming to CUNY, he taught for several years at Yale University, where he was the founding Associate Director of the Orville Schell Center for International Human Rights. Professor Andreopoulos has written extensively on international security, international human rights, and international humanitarian law issues. His recent publications include Concepts and Strategies in International Human Rights (ed.) (Peter Lang); The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World (with Sir Michael Howard and Mark Shulman, Yale University Press); and Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century (with Richard Pierre Claude, University of Pennsylvania Press). The Human Rights Education book appeared in a Japanese translation (Akashi Shoten Co., Ltd.) and was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award in Education. Professor Andreopoulos is currently completing a book on Humanitarian Intervention for Yale University Press and serves on the Editorial Board of Human Rights Review. Over the years, he has participated in several human rights missions, most recently in Sierra Leone to study and prepare recommendations on accountability mechanisms in that country. Professor Andreopoulos is currently Vice President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association and will serve as the Section's President during the 2003-2004 academic year.Email Prof. Andreopoulos

Note: Professor George Andreopoulos's academic biography has been copied from the Government Department of John Jay College's Faculty Biography Page.

Faculty Advisor - Jacques Fomerand

Mr. Jacques Fomerand will be UNSA's faculty advisor for the 2003-2004 academic year as Professor Andreopoulos will be leaving on sabatical. Mr. Jacques Fomerand was Director of the United Nations University's Office in New York from April 1992 to June 2003 when he retired from UN service. The main function of his Office was to strengthen the University's links with the Member States of the United Nations, the United Nations and its system of organizations and the international North American scholarly community. A native of France, Mr. Fomerand studied law and graduated in political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Aix en Provence. He completed his graduate studies at the City University of New York where he earned a Ph.D degree in political science with a specialization in comparative government and international organization. Prior to his joining the United Nations in 1977, Mr. Fomerand taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, Brooklyn College, City College and Queens College of the City University of New York and the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He has since taught as an Adjunct Professor at Long Island University United Nations Graduate Certificate Program, the School of Diplomacy and International Relations of Seton Hall University and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, among other institutions of higher learning.

At the United Nations, Mr. Fomerand followed economic and social questions in the Office of the Under-Secretary General of the former Department for International Economic and Social Affairs (DIESA). He was Chief of the Inter-Organizational Co-operation Section of DIESA when he was reassigned to the United Nations University.

Mr. Fomerand's publications deal primarily with matters related to the functioning of the United Nations. They include Strengthening the United Nations Economic and Social Programs: A Documentary Essay (Academic Council on the United Nations System, Reports and Papers, 1990); "Economic and Social Questions in the Years Ahead: Challenges and Opportunities for the Secretary-General," in The Challenging Role of the Secretary General, edited by Benjamin Rivlin and Leon Gordenker (New York, Praeger, 1993); "UN Conferences: Media Events or Genuine Diplomacy," in Global Governance, Vol. 2, Number 3 (September-December 1996), pp. 361-375 �International Approaches to Development: the United Nations and its Limits," Seton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Summer/Fall 2000), 51-59; �The Politics of Norm Setting at the United Nations: The Case of Sustainable Development�E in Dennis Djikzeul and Yves Beigbeder (eds.). Rethinking International Organizations: Pathology and Promises, Berghahn, 2003, pp. 77-106; �Recent UN textbooks: Reflections of an Old Timer�Ein Global Governance, 8 (2002), 383-403; �The American Concept and Practice of Multilateralism: The Mare Nostrum Syndrome�E Annales Francaises de Relations Internationales, June 2003; �North-South Issues at the 2002 Monterrey Conference on Finance and Development: Plus c�a Change�.?�EIn Development and Finance (Budapest), forthcoming, Summer 2003; and �The United Nations and the Challenge of Development,�EACUNS Occasional Papers, forthcoming, Summer 2003. Jacques Fomerand is currently completing two books, a Dictionary of the United Nations to be published by Scarecrow Publishers and another on the U.S. practice of multilateralism in development cooperation at the United Nations for the United Nations University Press.

Faculty Advisor - Desmond Arias

Desmond Arias is an Assistant Professor of Government, received his B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to coming to John Jay he taught at Beloit College and Oberlin College. His research focuses on the structure of criminal organizations in Brazilian shantytowns and the implications of ongoing social violence for democracy. Professor Arias teaches classes on comparative political and comparative criminal justice.

Note: Professor Desmond Arias's academic biography has been copied from the Government Department of John Jay College's Faculty Biography Page.