Thursday, August 27, 2015CIFP Fragile State Report – Palestinian TerritoriesCIFP Fragile State Report - Palestinian... MoreThursday, August 27, 2015CIFP Fragile State Report – Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)CIFP Fragile State Report - Democratic Republic of the Congo... MoreThursday, August 27, 2015CIFP Fragile State Report – BoliviaCIFP Fragile State Report -... MoreThursday, August 27, 2015CIFP Fragile State Report – HaitiCIFP Fragile State Report -... MoreThursday, August 27, 2015CIFP Fragile State Report – NicaraguaCIFP Fragile State Report -... MoreThursday, August 27, 2015CIFP Fragile State Report – PakistanCIFP Fragile State Report -... MoreThursday, August 27, 2015CIFP Fragile State Report – ColombiaCIFP Fragile State Report -... MoreMonday, January 19, 2015CIFP 2014 Fragility ReportThis Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) report provides a global fragility ranking for a total of 197 countries using 2013 data. 1 Somalia tops the list of most fragile countries followed closely by the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Afghanistan. Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, and... MoreFriday, June 21, 2013Crimes Against Humanity- The Case of Rohingya in BurmaBurma’s Rohingya Muslims are currently subject to crimes against humanity by the Burmese government, witnessed in recent acts of murder, torture, forced displacement, imprisonment, religious persecution, and restriction of movement. Should the Burmese state fail to end such crimes against humanity, there is potential for the situation to... MoreFriday, June 21, 2013Transition Fragile States: Fletcher ForumFragile states are a broadly understood concept, within which one may include a variety of related terms including, but not limited to: weak states, failing and failed states, collapsed states, difficult partners, difficult environments, and Low Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS).1 Fragile states lack the functional authority to provide basic... MoreFriday, June 14, 2013Roma at RiskWith the Hungarian Parliamentary Elections slated for the Spring of 2014, it is likely that Hungary’s Roma community will become increasingly at risk of racially-based ethnic violence. This policy brief recommends that the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity approach the Government of... MoreFriday, June 14, 2013Uyghurs at RiskUyghurs at Risk Uyghurs at Risk Briefing... MoreThursday, June 13, 2013Genocide Prevention- The Serbs of KosovoGenocide Prevention- The Serbs of... MoreThursday, June 13, 2013Genocide Prevention- The Rohingya 2013Genocide Prevention- The Rohingya... MoreSunday, November 25, 2012South Sudan Ethnic Reconciliation Commission for Harmonization – SSERCHSSERCH is a track II, inclusive, and locally based informal consultation and mediation project. The main objective is to persuade ethnic groups to prevent violent conflict by adopting peaceful dialogue as the only path to sustainable peace, safety, national cohesion and prosperity. South Sudan Ethnic Reconciliation Commission for Harmonization -... MoreWednesday, September 12, 2012CIFP Fragile States Report 2012CIFP Fragile States Report... MoreMonday, August 27, 2012The dangerous game of diaspora politicsDiasporas can exert pressure on their home government from abroad, free from political threats and fear of retribution. And they can lobby their host country to put pressure on their home government to endorse policies ranging from human rights and governance reform to favourable international trade policies and security guarantees. Diaspora... MoreWednesday, July 18, 2012Throwing aid at Afghanistan is not workingThrowing aid at Afghanistan is not... MoreWednesday, February 8, 2012A Recipe For Hatian SuccessOn the second anniversary of the earthquake that afflicted Port au Prince in 2010, there have been concerted criticisms coming from a variety of corners within Canada and abroad decrying the lack of involvement of Haitian leadership on how aid money should be spent. Those who are critical of the current donor strategy argue... MoreFriday, February 3, 2012Fragile States Causes Costs and ConsequencesFragile States Causes Costs and... MoreSunday, October 9, 2011Afghanistan, DFAIT and the Regional BlindspotAfghanistan, DFAIT and the Regional... MoreFriday, July 29, 2011MIFFedMOST people think they know what a failed state looks like. An obvious one is Somalia, where an outbreak of famine in the south was formally acknowledged by the United Nations this week. Help has started to trickle in after the Shabab, an Islamist militia, lifted its ban on aid agencies that it once... MoreMonday, July 11, 2011Engaging Fragile States Closing the Gap between Theory and Policy – Centre for World Dialogue"Fragility” is not a term typically applied to countries as dissimilar as North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Honduras. Yet each, much like Tolstoy’s unhappy family, is fragile in its own unique way. Saudi Arabia ranks poorly in our basket of legitimacy standards, which includes measures of gender equity, political representation, human rights and... MoreTuesday, May 10, 2011Indicators of State Failure Phase II ReportIndicators of State Failure Phase II... MoreThursday, March 31, 2011The New Terrorism Understanding YemenYemen is failing. Not only is it the Arab world’s poorest nation and challenged by mass protests, it is home to a resurgent al-Qaeda, a northern Shi’ite uprising and a revitalized southern secessionist movement. Yemen’s 1990 North-South unification is not working. Today, Yemen stands alongside Pakistan as one of the most important al-Qaeda... MoreFriday, January 28, 2011Afghanistan and The Regional BlindspotAfghanistan and The Regional... MoreThursday, January 20, 2011Fletcher 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... MoreTuesday, January 18, 2011Multiethnic 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... MoreFriday, October 22, 2010Broken Promises: The Fragility Gap and the MDGsAt 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:... MoreThursday, June 24, 2010Haiti without Tears: Getting aid rightRecent 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... MoreFriday, March 12, 2010CarmentSamy UofOJan20CarmentSamy... MoreSaturday, January 9, 2010Somalia BriefSomalia 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... MoreSaturday, January 9, 2010CIFP Yemen BriefThe 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.... MoreFriday, October 23, 2009Fragility 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... MoreFriday, October 2, 2009W2I 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« Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Next » Share: Twitter, Facebook Short URL: https://carleton.ca/cifp/?p=40