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What Next For Afghanistan?
Afghans are getting ready to vote for their next president in a few hours. As David Loyn (BBC) reports, the Afghan election will see “the biggest security operation mounted in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Conflict Management, Elections, Fragile States, Peacebuilding
Tagged Afghanistan, BBC, Conflict, David Loyn, David Miliband, Democracy, Development, Education, Elections, Fragile States, Gideon Rose, International Aid, International Development, International Rescue Committee, IRC, James Wolfensohn, Kathleen Newland, M. Farooq Kathwari, Madeleine Albright, Maureen White, Milbrey Rennie, Peacebuilding, Poverty reduction, Refugees, Security, Sir John Holmes, Taliban
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Women, Men, and Peace: new issue of the Alliance for Peacebuilding online publication
The Alliance for Peacebuilding just released the third issue of their free semi-annual online publication, Building Peace: A Forum for Peace and Security in the 21st Century. This last issue, Women, Men, and Peace, explores questions of gender and peace through the … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Peace, Peace Education, Peacebuilding, Women
Tagged Afghanistan, Africa, Alliance for Peacebuilding, Azra Jafari, Building Peace, Conflict, Don Steinberg, Fragile States, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Kristen Gresh, Peace, Peacebuilding, Policy, Research, Security, UN Security Council Resolution 1325, United Nations, USAID, Valerie M. Hudson, Violence, Women Men and Peace, Women's Empowerment, World Learning
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Education Under Attack: 2014 Report
The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack just released a study that identifies 70 countries where attacks occurred between 2009 and 2012, including 30 where there was a pattern of deliberate attacks: Education Under Attack 2014 is a global study that charts the … Continue reading
Posted in Child Protection, Conflict Management, Education, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Girls' Education, Human Rights, International Development, Peace, Peacebuilding
Tagged Afghanistan, Africa, Bahrain, ban ki moon, Because I am a girl, Côte d’Ivoire, Central African Republic, Child Protection, Colombia, Conflict, Council for Assisting Refugee Academics, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Development, Education, Education First, Education For All, Education Under Attack, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fragile States, GCPEA, Girls' education, Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, I am Malala, India, Indonesia, Institute of International Education, International Development, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Kenya, Libya, Lucens Guidelines, Malala Yousafzai, Mali, Mexico, Millenium Development Goals, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Save the Children, Scholars at Risk Network, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, The Philippines, Tides Center, Turkey, UNESCO, UNHCR, United Nations, Violence, Yemen, Zimbabwe
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Unlearning Violence: Evidence and Policies for Early Childhood Development and Peace
The World Peace Foundation is organizing an exciting conference on February 13 & 14, 2014, at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy – Tufts University. There is no cost to attend, registration is filling fast: interested individuals can obtain more … Continue reading
Posted in Child Protection, Conflict Management, Education, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Girls, Girls' Education, Human Rights, Human Rights Education, International Development, Peace, Peace Education, Peacebuilding
Tagged Because I am a girl, Child Protection, Conflict, Early Childhood, Education, Education First, Education For All, Fragile States, Girls' education, Human Rights, I am Malala, International Development, Millenium Development Goals, Peace, peace education, Peacebuilding, Violence, Violence against women
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Peace Operations in Africa: Lessons Learned Since 2000
More than 50 peace operations have deployed in Africa since 2000, including multiple African-led or hybrid African Union/United Nations initiatives. The frequency of these deployments underscores the ongoing importance of these operations in the playbook of regional and multilateral bodies … Continue reading
U.N. Security Council new resolution on conflict-related sexual violence
The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a new resolution on conflict-related sexual violence on June 24, 2013. Here is a statement by Lakshmi Puri, Acting Head of UN Women: “UN Women welcomes the unanimous adoption of Security Council resolution … Continue reading
USAID Findings: Evidence in Youth Education in Crisis and Conflict
USAID just released its latest research regarding international youth and education programming. Cross-posting from USAID: “Three new “State of the Field” reports summarize the findings of 122 unique studies and consultations with over 75 subject matter experts across three topics … Continue reading
Posted in Child Protection, Conflict Management, Education, Fragile States, Girls' Education, International Development, Peacebuilding
Tagged Africa, Child Protection, Conflict, Education, Education For All, Fragile States, Human Rights, International Development, Peacebuilding, USAID, Youth
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Climate Change: “a 4 degree warmer world can, and must be, avoided”
The connections among environmental, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy are more and more studied by scholars, including the Wilson Center‘s Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP). Hence, our interest in the new scientific report … Continue reading
Posted in Child Protection, Climate Change, Conflict Management, Fragile States, International Development
Tagged Child Protection, Climate Adaptation, Climate and Security, Climate Change, Conflict, environment, Fragile States, Future Generations, International Development, OECD, Wilson Center, World Bank
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