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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Fletcher Forum on World Affairs – new article!

The United Nations Summit to evaluate progress made toward the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ended in New York on September 22, 2010. The outcome document—“Keeping the Promise: United to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals” —is yet another call to action so that the MDGs can be achieved by their 2015 target... More

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Multiethnic Crimea and Social Capital Original published at CRIA-ONLINE.ORG.

This article analyses social capital in Ukraine, using the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (ARC) as a case study. To understand how a multiethnic society like Crimea can build and strengthen social capital in the face of economic and political challenges, we focus on the relationship between global, regional and local politics; the subsequent impact... More

Friday, October 22, 2010

Broken Promises: The Fragility Gap and the MDGs

At the recent UN summit to evaluate progress made towards the millennium development goals (MDGs) in September, donor countries have been told that the goals are achievable by their 2015 target date if they scale up their efforts and financial commitments and improve the way they deliver aid. The outcome document, Keeping the Promise:... More

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Haiti without Tears: Getting aid right

Recent efforts to rebuild Haiti by combining Canadian expertise with indigenous efforts are unlikely to be effective. For most of its history, Haiti’s governments and leaders have failed to provide security to their people, to promote economic freedom and to encourage entrepreneurship. The result is an extremely weak formal economy, entrenched... More

Friday, March 12, 2010

CarmentSamy UofOJan20

CarmentSamy... More

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Somalia Brief

Somalia has had no effective government since 1991. According to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, Somalia is the most pressing humanitarian emergency, even worse than the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. The current instability in Somalia is rooted in many factors such as war, famine, corruption, warlords and external interventions. The Somali society is... More

Saturday, January 9, 2010

CIFP Yemen Brief

The evolution towards Yemeni statehood can be viewed as the convergence of two separate and conflicting societies. North Yemen, know known as the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), was ruled by the Ottoman Empire until its dissolution. In sharp contrast, South Yemen was ruled by the British until 1937 when it became a crown colony.... More

Friday, October 23, 2009

Fragility Users Guide (web)

State fragility has become a buzzword in international development policy. The re-emergence of “the state” as a central actor in developing countries has several causes: state fragility is closely linked with security issues at the top of the foreign policy agendas of donor countries; the current international financial crisis has made it... More

Friday, October 2, 2009

W2I Report

“Genocide is the denial of the right to existence of entire human groups, as homicide is the denial of the right to live of individual human beings; such denial of the right of existence shocks the conscience of mankind, results in great losses to humanity in the form of cultural and other contributions represented... More

Saturday, September 12, 2009

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