Navigating Peace and Security Issues on the UN Website

Some Ph.D. students of Azad University participated in “Finding UN Information and Documentation Workshop” focusing on the subject of Peace and Security held by UNIC Tehran on 9 March 2016 at the UNIC Library, AVA Diplomatic reports.

After introducing UNIC website to the participants, UNIC Reference Assistant Ms. Nazanin Ghaemmaghami elaborated on an overview of Peace and Security as a Global Issue, its related links such as University for Peace, as well as International Peace and Security as a UN key issue. Then the participants navigated through the webpage of “Maintaining International Peace and Security” including Security Council, General Assembly, Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding Commission, Countering Terrorism and Disarmament.

Ms. Ghaemmaghami also addressed the participants on how to retrieve UN documentation and information from Dag Hammarskjold Library’s (DHL) web page and gave an overview of document symbols and important information-searching tools located through DHL resources and databases, including the United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBISnet), Official Document System(ODS) and UN-I-QUE: UN Info Quest. The new UN digital Library (UN iLibrary) was also introduced.

Mr. Hossein Talebi, one of the participants who is also a Ministry of Foreign Affairs diplomat expressed his satisfaction with the workshop and said “Dag Hammarskjold Library’s databases can be very useful for locating the documents that I need for my dissertation.”