UN Office Research Articles

Newspapers as a validation proxy for GIS modeling in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates: identifying flood-prone areas

The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction listed 10 reasons businesses should reduce their disaster exposure, including risk factoring, which cannot be achieved without historical data about hazards, their locations, magnitudes, and frequencies. Substantial hazard data are reported by newspapers, which could add value to disaster management decision making. In this study, a text-mining program extracted keywords related to floods’ geographic location, date, and damages from newspaper analyses of flash floods in Fujairah, UAE, from 2000–2018. The paper describes extracting such information as well as geocoding and validating flood-prone areas generated through geographic information system (GIS) modeling. The generation of flood-prone areas was based on elevation, slope, land use, soil, and geology coupled with topographic wetness index, topographic position index, and curve number. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) produced relative weight for each factor, and GIS map algebra generated flood-prone areas. AHP inclusion helped minimize weight subjectivity among various experts. Of all areas, 85% are considered medium and low flood-prone zones, mainly mountainous areas. However, the 15% that are high/very high are dominated by urban areas in low coastal plains, predisposing them to flash floods. Eighty-four percent of flood events reported by newspapers were in areas rated as high/very high flood-prone zones. In the absence of flood records, newspapers reports can be used as a reference. Policymakers should assess whether flood-prone area models offer accurate analyses. These findings are useful for organizations related to disaster management, urban planning, insurance, archiving, and documentation.

Rights and Obligations during Covid-19: a Look at Selected UN Statements

In April 2020, the UN Office of the Commissioner of Human Rights & the Committee under ICESCR [International Covenant on Economic, Social, Cultural Rights] issued general and special statements addressing the challenges being faced by individuals & States in light of the prevailing global health crisis.The statements highlight the key human rights principles and standards applicable in light of COVID 19. At the same time, developments around the world open up for scrutiny questions on the current status of human rights and responsibilities. Several themes have become critical including the powers of states to declare emergency, the limitations on human rights derogations, and the scope and applicability of rights including right to scientific information.

COVID-19 response in the Middle East and north Africa: challenges and paths forward

COVID-19 response in the Middle East and north Africa: challenges and paths forward

Tracing modes of politics at the United Nations: Spatial scripting, intimidation and subversion at the Forum on Minority Issues

This paper seeks to add empirical depth and conceptual nuance to how we understand the dynamics of geopolitical interactions. It does so by turning attention to the role of space in how modes of politics are articulated. The micro-spaces of international institutions are brought to the fore through an examination of how geopolitical actors of different prescribed statuses – state diplomats and representatives of minority communities – interact in the spaces of the UN Office at Geneva. Focusing on the UN Forum on Minority Issues the paper adopts an inductive approach to draw out dynamics of scripting, disruption, (in)visibility and affective atmospheres in this space. Three empirical snapshots of the eighth and ninth Forums are presented. The first focuses on spatial scripting within Room XX and examines experiences of sublime aesthetics and the cadences of the Forum’s proceedings. Attention then turns to the actions of particular states which interrupted minority speakers and engaged in spatial practices of intimidation. Third, the agency of minority representatives in asserting their presence through reclaiming space and small acts of subversion is examined. The paper concludes with a discussion of how to approach the often contradictory modes of politics articulated at the UN and the potential for further geographical investigation of this international institution.

Human trafficking as a crime against humanity

The article emphasizes that human trafficking is a modern form of slavery and a crime against humanity. The causes of the international crime are unresolved migration problem in the world, armed conflicts, insufficient efforts of states to combat human trafficking, inefficiency political and economic transformations in the state, corruption officials, declarative social policy and numerous other reasons. UN Office on Drug and Crime reports an increase in the number of recorded cases of human trafficking in the world. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, states have closed their borders, but this is not the way out. After the resumption of international connections, a new wave of migration flows is expected. As a result, the level of human trafficking crime will increase. The institutional mechanism of the UN, the Council of Europe and the role International Criminal Court in the field of combating the crime of trafficking people were analyzed. The scale and effectiveness of certain international legal acts are determined. The main disadvantage is their recommendatory nature. Combating against transnational crime trafficking in human beings requires to use not only national and regional judicial system, but also international bodies. Particular attention was paid on the importance of the International Criminal Court and the European Court of Human Rights in investigating the crime of trafficking in human beings. The issue of jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court on human trafficking crimes was covered. Creating a new mechanism to combat human trafficking is not an appropriate way. We emphasized the importance of improving the work of existing institutions. Key words: crime against humanity, human trafficking, institutional mechanism, migration, International Criminal Court, Rome Statute, European Court of Human Rights.

The racialization of development expertise and the fluidity of blackness: a case from 1980s Thailand

This paper is an ethnographer’s reconstruction of his experience in Thailand with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in the 1980s and early 1990s, and the flux of opposing biases he was subject to as a black African on one hand and a farang development expert on the other. The paper discusses how racial thinking affected dynamics in the UN office and in the field, and how and why those dynamics played out differently over the course of the project. It describes racial hierarchies and meanings situated in this particular country and era as a contribution to an unfinished anthropological inquiry: how blackness and whiteness are intimately woven into the everyday practices of development bureaucracies.

Constructing Universal Values? A Practical Approach

AbstractThis essay explores the possibility of universal values. Universal values do not exist as Platonic ideals nor do they exist in clearly defined lists of rules or laws. Rather, universal ethical claims are constructed through the actions of individual political leaders, scholars, and activists. This essay explores how such normative constructions take place. It uses an initiative undertaken by the UN Office of Drugs and Crime to further education around corruption as an example of how such universal values come into existence. The initiative focused on developing teaching materials for higher education. The essay focuses on two particular modules, both their content and the process by which they were written.

E Blood Bank Application using GPS and Cloud Computing

In numerous elective cases, similar to mishaps, there might be Associate in Nursing basic might want for explicit blood gathering. When contrasted with the extent connection of interest of the blood awfully less amount of people blessing the blood, hence the need of the blood will increment. Blood Donation and intromission Services (BTS) are essential for sparing individuals' lives. Blood donation centers endure visit lack of blood; in this manner, commercials are frequently observed on informal communities encouraging sound individuals to blessing blood for patients UN organization frantically need intromission. The E-Blood Bank is Associate in Nursing robot application that allows the client to go looking contributors of explicit individuals bolstered their area, in a short measure of your time. This application won't exclusively demonstrate the rundown of contributors anyway also facilitated with trailing the circumstance of the close to benefactors and giving SMS cautions to them, all together that the patient will be presented with blood a little while later. in order to blessing blood through the application, one must enroll himself by giving all the ideal subtleties. These subtleties ought to be substantial and valid all together that they'll be caterpillar-followed at the hour of crisis. when all the learning is acknowledged by the Admin, the benefactor will be extra to the rundown of enrolled contributors. GPS module is encased to discover the givers. Accordingly, exclusively enrolled individuals, UN office need to blessing blood, ready to get to the administration. Cloud-basically based administrations are prove horribly significant in basic blood conveyance as they care ready to focal and quick access to giver's information and site from wherever and whenever.

Theotonio Dos Santos (1936–2018): The Revolutionary Intellectual Who Pioneered Dependency Theory

Theotonio Dos Santos (1936–2018): The Revolutionary Intellectual Who Pioneered Dependency Theory

UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (2018)

UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (2018)

New psychoactive substances: concerted efforts and common legislative answers for stemming a growing health hazard.

New psychoactive substances (NPS), are a range of drugs designed to mimic the effects of established illicit drugs, being legal at the time of their distribution in illicit markets. The review aims to shed a light on the growing threat caused by NPS, and on the dynamics and developments that have led to their spread, including the risk of new adulteration practices which can cause a serious health threat, due to their increased toxicity, e.g., through fentanyl and its analogs. An overview of statistical trends relative to NPS use has been provided, in addition to regulatory and legislative approaches in several countries and recommendations and data from International institutions: UN Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, WHO, European Parliament, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Europol and international collaborative efforts such as the Trans European Drug Information (TEDI) project and the Spanish Energy Control. Given the elusive nature of NPS, spontaneous pharmacovigilance reporting systems are needed to identify new trends of drug abuse. Broad-ranging legislative initiatives are needed in order to set common international standards (e.g., the European Parliament Regulation 2017/2101, with information exchange, an early warning system and risk assessment procedure for NPS) to tackle a potentially catastrophic and growing threat. By virtue of all the complexities and hurdles that have to be overcome in the fight against NPS, and to assist national governments in their identification and reporting, supranational organizations can come to play a key role. Only through international measures, supplementing national legislative initiatives, can this multi-faceted problem be effectively addressed and information about NPS be gathered and disseminated in a timely fashion.

Children\u2019s Agency: Opportunities and Constraints

Children’s agency accords with the principles emphasised by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations in Convention on the rights of the child. UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva. Retrieved from, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CRC.aspx, 1989). This study focuses on children’s opportunities for agency in first grade of a Finnish primary school. The research explored how children’s agency was evident in photographs taken by 16 children on their school experiences and discussions with the researcher about the photographs. A phenomenological approach was used in the analyses to identify four themes in the data: the social order of school; teacher’s pedagogical tools; break times; and learning new skills. In the school context, the children’s agency seemed to require continuous balancing between the children’s freedom and adults’ power and authority. Pedagogically, the results imply that the adults who work with children can listen closely to children’s voices in order to strengthen opportunities in classrooms and to support children’s sense of personal agency. The study challenges teachers to consider how classroom practices may divide or categorise some children and how these practice may reduce children’s participation, contribution and agency.

Disaster Militarism? Military Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

Military assets, which include personnel, make an important contribution to disaster relief. However, military deployments can be politically sensitive, and the relevant international law is contested and not binding. This article compares two sets of UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) Guidelines on this issue. The 2007 Oslo Guidelines1 state that military assets should be used in disaster relief only as a last resort, while the 2014 Asia-Pacific Regional Guidelines2 acknowledge that military assets are often the first to respond to disasters in the region. Drawing on examples primarily from Asia, this article explores the apparent conflict between these two UN Guidelines and asks two questions about the deployment of foreign military assets in disaster relief. First, to what extent does international law authorize or limit the deployment of foreign military assets in disaster relief? Second, what are the politics of deploying military assets in disaster relief? This article argues that, rather than representing a global standard, the Oslo Guidelines better reflect European practice within Europe, while the Asia-Pacific Regional Guidelines are more representative of practice worldwide. It concludes that the type of military aid provided is key to its compliance with international law and its political acceptance.

Juridical Study of Application of Land Based Grants for Children under Age (Minors) In Purwokerto City

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze: 1) Implementation of Land Rights Application Based Grants for Children Under Age in Purwokerto. 2) Barriers to Land Rights Application Process. 3) solution or an attempt to overcome barriers that arise in the Land Rights Application Process Based Grants for Children Under Age in Purwokerto.The approach method in this research is juridical empirical research that emphasizes the behavior of individuals or communities in connection with the law. The data used are primary and secondary data obtained through interviews and literature, while the method of data analysis was done with descriptive and qualitative analysis.Results of the research can be concluded: 1) Implementation of Land Rights Application Based Grants for Children Under Age in Purwokerto are filing a trust, do grant agreement, made a grant deed in front of PPAT. To get the grant deed, PPAT Purwokerto provide the terms of a document that must be completed. Furthermore PPAT within a period of seven (7) days after the grant deed signed certificates are required to submit the following relevant documents to the Land Office to be registered switchover rights. 2) Barriers experienced from the Land Deed Official (PPAT) is data required SVTO not exist, it can happen PPAT delay the process to wait until the publication of SPPT of the UN office. In the Land Office, Officers from the land office convoluted in keterangannnya. The resistance of the people or the Applicant is the difficulty in the process of application for registration which is due to a lack of public knowledge about the registration of land. 3) The solution or an attempt to overcome barriers that are PPAT could short SVTO asked for a letter to the UN office, to the Land Office can provide public education related to easy and the importance of land registration. For the public to be more active in seeking information about the application process transition of land rights.Keywords: Grant; Children under Age; Certificate of Land.

International failure in northwest Syria: humanitarian health catastrophe demands action

The 9-year conflict in Syria has resulted in one of the worst humanitarian crises of our generation, with more than 11·7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in Syria, 11·3 million in need of health assistance, and 6·2 million internally displaced within Syria. 1 UNHCRSyria Operational Update, January–May 2019. https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/UNHCR%20Syria%27s%20Operational%20update%20May%202019.pdfDate: 2019 Date accessed: July 1, 2019 Google Scholar In one of the worst onslaughts of the conflict to date, Syrian Government and Russian forces have intensified their ground shelling and airstrikes in northwest Syria since early April, 2019. This area contains an estimated 3 million people of whom 1·3 million are internally displaced people, 2 UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian AffairsSyria: situation report 1: recent developments in Northwestern Syria (as of May 10, 2019). https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/syria-situation-report-1-recent-developments-north-western-syria-10-mayDate: 2019 Date accessed: July 1, 2019 Google Scholar who have already been displaced from other parts of Syria such as Aleppo and Eastern Ghouta by previous government offensives; the most severely affected area is in the southernmost part of the demilitarised zone of Idlib province. To date, 380 casualties, including 91 children, have been reported in Idlib; with 27 deaths, including 11 children, in just 1 day on June 10, 2019. 3 Studer S 27 civilians killed in Assad-Putin airstrikes in Syria's Idlib region. Action on Armed Violence. https://aoav.org.uk/2019/27-civilians-killed-in-assad-putin-airstrikes-in-syrias-idlib-region/Date: June 11, 2019 Date accessed: June 27, 2019 Google Scholar These attacks echo prior campaigns by government forces to retake territory through inflicting a heavy civilian price. 4 Jabbour S Fouad FM Leaning J et al. Death and suffering in Eastern Ghouta, Syria: a call for action to protect civilians and health care. Lancet. 2018; 391: 815-817 Summary Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (6) Google Scholar However, this offensive is even more catastrophic as civilians are trapped between the closed Turkish border and are unable to return to other parts of Syria with guarantees of their safety. On June 27, 2019, 11 humanitarian organisations warned of the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Idlib, with 3 million lives in danger, including 1 million children. 5 UN NewsSyria's Idlib “on the brink” of a nightmare, humanitarian chiefs warn, launching global solidarity campaign. UN News. https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/06/1041471Date: June 27, 2019 Date accessed: July 1, 2019 Google Scholar

Polycentric Governance in Global Affairs: The Case of Space Governance

This paper analyses the nature and architecture of space governance and asserts that in order to break from decades-long gridlock, it should become polycentric. The paper further refutes contentions that space governance is or should be based on space being ‘the province of all mankind’, the ‘common heritage of mankind’ or ‘global commons’. The first two decades pursuant to the launch of the first Earth artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, saw the successful introduction of a monocentric governance system, with several widely accepted space law treaties and dedicated UN organs. However, the initial success was followed by decades-long paralysis in the dedicated UN committee, leaving even the pressing challenges insufficiently addressed. There is widespread acknowledgement of the need for change, but not on how to accomplish it. This paper suggests that only a shift in the architecture of space governance to a decentralized system may enable continuous evolution thereof to meet the changing needs and opportunities of space exploration and utilization. The paper compares three versions or conceptualizations of decentralized governance - international relations’ concept of a ‘regime complex’, political economy/institutional analysis’ concept of ‘polycentric governance’, and international law’s concept of ‘fragmentation’ - and suggests cross-disciplinary convergence. Analysis of the literature on these concepts demonstrates that, under the constraints of an anarchic international society, decentralized governance is inevitable and advantageous. Moreover, Elinor Ostrom's Nobel winning study provided strong empirical proof supporting polycentric governance of complex economic systems and emphasized the central role of users/stakeholders in governance. A polycentric governance system is one in which there are multiple independent decision-making centers (‘governance centers’), with at least partial overlap in jurisdictions. The advantages of decentralized governance can be maximized, and its adverse effects mitigated if Ostrom’s ‘design principles’ for robust governance systems are met, if institutional deference is practiced, and possibly if global administrative law, or the law of global governance, are applied. The paper concludes that the only way forward is by space governance becoming polycentric, allowing decentralized, incremental evolution of space governance. This means, in practice, that a separate forum for each specific issue (e.g. militarization, space traffic control), led by stakeholders and experts, and with the active participation and coordination of the UN office of space affairs, would create rules for that issue, and possibly monitor their application. The aggregate of all these rules and forums will be a more comprehensive, flexible, and updated governance system than a monocentric system of global governance can yield. In fact, space governance is already on track to become polycentric, as stakeholders and experts establish forums that suggest, adopt or push for rules and standards. Embracing and facilitating polycentricism and diverting more governance-building efforts in this direction, while mitigating its adverse effects, would enhance space governance and thereby space exploration by states and nonstate actors alike.

Constructing resilience at three scales: The 100 Resilient Cities programme, Durban's resilience journey and water resilience in the Palmiet Catchment

Resilience is a ‘re-emerging concept’ which is being applied to deal with the shocks and stresses facing society and the environment as a result of both human induced and physical hazards. Resilience thinking is shaping policy and practice across the world through global programmes such as the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)'s Making Cities Resilient Campaign; UN Habitat's City Resilience Profiling Programme; and Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100 RC). The global post-2015 sustainable development and climate change frameworks and related agreements all have resilience embedded in them. However, the concept of resilience remains contested, with resilience reflecting a continuum of approaches from those that are more deliberative, political, systemic, relational and transformational, to those that are more consultative, post-political, systems based, sectoral and instrumental. Questions of how resilience is being constructed, by whom and for whom therefore need to be explored. This paper focuses on the construction of resilience at three scales: The Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) programme (global), Phase 1 of Durban's 100RC journey (city), and the Palmiet Catchment Rehabilitation Project (sub-catchment within a city). It presents the different approaches adopted by global, city-scale and local programmes to build resilience using different framings, approaches and methodologies.

Human Stampedes: An Updated Review of Current Literature

Human stampedes are a major cause of mortality in mass gatherings, but they have received limited scientific attention. While the number of publications has increased, there is no recent review of new study results. This study compiles and reviews available literature on stampedes, their prevention, preparedness, and response.A search for peer-reviewed and grey literature in PubMed (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health; Bethesda, Maryland USA), Google Scholar (Google Inc.; Mountain View, California USA), Web of Science (Thomson Reuters; New York, New York USA), the World Health Organization Library Database (WHOLIS; World Health Organization; Geneva, Switzerland), and ReliefWeb (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; Geneva, Switzerland) was conducted, and papers were selected according to pre-defined eligibility criteria. Included items were read and results were compiled and summarized. A total of 64 publications were included, of which, 34 were published between 2013-2016. The most studied events were Germany's Love Parade stampede in 2010 (Duisburg, Germany; n = 6) and the United Kingdom (UK) Hillsborough Stadium stampede in 1989 (Sheffield, England; n = 4). Conflicting definitions of human stampedes were found. The common belief that they result from an irrational and panicking crowd has progressively been replaced by studies suggesting that successive systemic failures are main underlying causes. There is a lack of systematic reporting, making news reports often the only source available. Prevention measures are mainly related to crowd management and venue design, but their effectiveness has not been studied. Drills are recommended in the preparedness phase to improve coordination and communication. Delay in decisions, poor triage, or loss of medical records are common problems in the response, which may worsen the outcome.Stampedes are complex phenomenon that remain incompletely understood, hampering formulation of evidence-based strategies for their prevention and management. Documentation comes mostly from high-profile events and findings are difficult to extrapolate to other settings. More research from different disciplines is warranted to address these gaps in order to prevent and mitigate future events. A start would be to decide on a common definition of stampedes. Moitinho de AlmeidaM, von SchreebJ. Human stampedes: an updated review of current literature. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2019;34(1):82-88.

Applications of Space Technologies to Global Health: Scoping Review.

BackgroundSpace technology has an impact on many domains of activity on earth, including in the field of global health. With the recent adoption of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals that highlight the need for strengthening partnerships in different domains, it is useful to better characterize the relationship between space technology and global health.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to identify the applications of space technologies to global health, the key stakeholders in the field, as well as gaps and challenges.MethodsWe used a scoping review methodology, including a literature review and the involvement of stakeholders, via a brief self-administered, open-response questionnaire. A distinct search on several search engines was conducted for each of the four key technological domains that were previously identified by the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs’ Expert Group on Space and Global Health (Domain A: remote sensing; Domain B: global navigation satellite systems; Domain C: satellite communication; and Domain D: human space flight). Themes in which space technologies are of benefit to global health were extracted. Key stakeholders, as well as gaps, challenges, and perspectives were identified.ResultsA total of 222 sources were included for Domain A, 82 sources for Domain B, 144 sources for Domain C, and 31 sources for Domain D. A total of 3 questionnaires out of 16 sent were answered. Global navigation satellite systems and geographic information systems are used for the study and forecasting of communicable and noncommunicable diseases; satellite communication and global navigation satellite systems for disaster response; satellite communication for telemedicine and tele-education; and global navigation satellite systems for autonomy improvement, access to health care, as well as for safe and efficient transportation. Various health research and technologies developed for inhabited space flights have been adapted for terrestrial use.ConclusionsAlthough numerous examples of space technology applications to global health exist, improved awareness, training, and collaboration of the research community is needed.

Pharmacological Characterization of Synthetic Cannabinoid MAM‐2201: Radioligand Binding and Abuse‐Related Effects

Abuse of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) is growing at an alarming rate worldwide, and over 30% of all NPS identified by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in 2016 were synthetic cannabinoids. The recent emergence of MAM‐2201 on the illicit market is troubling because this drug has no precedent in either the scientific or patent literature, and thus appears to be a novel compound developed specifically as a “gray market” drug of abuse. Structurally, MAM‐2201 is a hybrid of two known synthetic cannabinoid compounds (JWH‐122 and AM‐2201) and therefore presumably acts as a high‐efficacy agonist at cannabinoid receptors, but its pharmacological properties are unknown. Thus, the present studies characterized its cannabinoid‐like activities in vitro and in vivo. In a radioligand binding assay using [3H]CP55,940 in HEK cell membranes transfected with the cannabinoid type 1 receptor (CB1R), MAM‐2201 (Ki = 5.4 nM), similar to WIN 55,212‐2 (Ki = 8.3 nM), had higher binding affinity for CB1R than Δ9‐THC (Ki = 80.1 nM). The Emax values for MAM‐2201 and WIN 55‐212‐2 in an assay of agonist inhibition of forskolin‐stimulated cAMP were 85% (EC50 = 0.45 nM) and 94%, respectively, as compared with the Δ9‐THC Emax of 74%. In mice, MAM‐2201 (0.003‐1.0 mg/kg, I.P., N=8 per group) produced dose‐dependent effects in all measures of the cannabinoid tetrad, which were both more potent and more effective than those of Δ9‐THC. MAM‐2201 and Δ9‐THC dose‐dependently produced the following cannabinoid‐like effects (1) hypothermia: ED50 = 0.287 and 25.4 mg/kg, (2) analgesia: ED50 = 0.125 and 29.4 mg/kg, (3) catalepsy: ED50 = 0.301 and 18.9 mg/kg, and (4) hypolocomotion: ED50 = 0.782 and >100 mg/kg, respectively in adult male CD1 mice. Pronounced strain differences between CD1 and C57Bl6/J animals were noted for hypolocomotor effects, and the CB1 antagonist rimonabant attenuated all of these effects. In rats, MAM‐2201 produced dose‐dependent Δ9‐THC‐like interoceptive effects in subjects trained to discriminate 3.0 mg/kg (IP) Δ9‐THC from saline, and rimonabant attenuated these effects as well. Thus, MAM‐2201 functioned as a potent cannabinoid agonist in vivo across several complementary measures of cannabinoid activity in two rodent species. Importantly, MAM‐2201 also elicited convulsant effects at a dose of 1.0 mg/kg in 8/8 murine subjects. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Drug Enforcement Administration or the Food and Drug Administration.Support or Funding InformationSupported by the Drug Enforcement Administration, National Center for Toxicological Research (protocol # E0763601) and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.