Oral history interview with Elisabeth Rehn, 2000.

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Oral history interview with Elisabeth Rehn, 2000.

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Childhood in Finland; Assisted father, a doctor, with medical work in World War II; Education: School of Economics; Geographic Economics and Political Economy at University level. Career: UNICEF, Vice President of Red Cross of Finland, representative of local Municipal and City Council, Finnish Parliament, Minister of Defense, Attended United Nations (UN) Conferences; UN special rapporteur to Kosovo, Special Representative to Secretary General Bosnia and Herzegovina, co-author of Women, War, Peace (2002), and UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) expert. Memories of World War II, Soviet Union invasion of Finland, Participation in Lotta Svard, Involvement in Finnish politics, Finland and accession to European Union, Finland and the UN, Finlandization, Finland's contribution to international relations, transition from Finish politics to UN, Career as special rapporteur in Kosovo, inter-UN institutional diplomacy, and gender and equality.

transcript: 167 p.

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