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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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Nonviolent Civil Resistance works: let’s spread the word!
In 2011, Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan published a groundbreaking study on civil resistance, Why Civil Resistance Works, the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict. While the prevailing view is that the most effective means of waging political struggle entails violence, they found … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Peace, Peace Education
Tagged 2012 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, A Force More Powerful, Ben Kingsley, Bosnia, Bringing Down a Dictator, Burma, Civil Resistance, Education, Egypt, Erica Chenoweth, Fletcher, Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict, Fragile States, Freedom House, Global Citizenship, Iran, Maria Stephan, Martin Sheen, Milosevic, Nonviolence, nonviolent campaigns, Orange Revolution, Palestinian Territories, peace education, peace research, Peacebuilding, Peter Ackerman, Philippines, political struggle, repression, Research, Rob Wilkinson, Serbia, Stephen Zunes, Teachers, TED Talk, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Ukraine, violent campaigns, Why Civil Resistance Works
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The Forgotten Education Crisis in the Central African Republic
This post originally appeared on the Education For All blog on October 21, 2013: The Global Partnership for Education provides education funding to crisis countries By Alice Albright World media has captured the Syrian crisis, Egypt’s turmoil and many other … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Child Protection, Conflict Management, Education, Fragile States, Peacebuilding
Tagged Africa, Alice Albright, BLTP, CAR, Central African Republic, Child Protection, Development, Education, Education Cluster, Education First, Education For All, Fragile States, Girls' education, Global Partnership for Education, GPE, Human Rights, humanitarian crisis, Somalia, Teachers, UN Security Council, UNICEF, United Nations, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Yemen
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The State of the World’s Girls 2013 – “In Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Girls and Disasters”
Plan’s annual report on the world’s girls investigates what happens to adolescent girls in disasters, and how to better protect girls’ rights and well-being. Plan International just released the seventh report in its annual State of the World’s Girls series. In Double … Continue reading
Posted in Child Protection, Education, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Girls, Girls' Education, Human Rights, International Development
Tagged adolescent girls, Africa, Because I am a girl, Central Africa, Child Protection, disasters, Education, Education First, Education For All, education in emergencies, Emergencies, environment, Ethiopia, Fragile States, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Gender-Based Violence, Girls' education, HIV, Human Rights, impact of war, Pakistan, Plan International, protection against gender-based violence, Research, South Sudan, United Nations, Valerie Amos, West Africa, Women's Empowerment, Zimbabwe
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Investing in Girls’ Education Delivers Results: let’s innovate!
Today, we are celebrating the second International Day of the Girl Child. Indeed, on December 19, 2011, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare 11 October as the International Day of the Girl Child, to recognize girls’ rights … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Child Protection, Education, Gender Based Violence, Girls, Girls' Education, Women
Tagged #dayofthegirl, #education2015, #girlrising, #post2015, #voicesagainstviolence, Africa, child marriage, Child Protection, Development, e-discussion, e-learning, Education, Education First, Education For All, Female education, Fragile States, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Ghana, Girls' education, Global Citizenship, Global Partnership for Education, Human Rights, I am Malala, Innovating for Girls’ Education, International Day of the Girl Child 2013, International Development, Malala Yousafzai, Millenium Development Goals, online platform, Run the World, Singles, UN Women, UNESCO, UNICEF, United Nations, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, Women and education, Women's Empowerment, Youth, Youth Advocacy Group
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UN Education First Initiative one year on: Education cannot wait
Today, we are celebrating the first-year anniversary of the UN Global Education First initiative launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in September 2012. Around the same time last year, over 20 government and global humanitarian, development and education leaders representing … Continue reading
Posted in Child Protection, Education, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Girls, Girls' Education, Human Rights, International Development, Peace, Women
Tagged Alice Albright, ban ki moon, Because I am a girl, Central African Republic, Child Protection, conflict-affected countries, Democratic Republic of Congo, displacement, early pregnancy, Education, Education First, Education For All, education in emergencies, forced marriage, Fragile States, Gender Gap, Girls' education, Global Partnership for Education, Gordon Brown, high-intensity conflicts, Human Rights, human rights violations, I am Malala, INEE, International Development, Irina Bokova, Malala Yousafzai, out of school children, Peacebuilding, Plan International, post-2015 development agenda, Protect, Save the Children, sexual violence, Syria, UN Global Education First, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNICEF, United Nations, Violence, Violence against women, Women's Empowerment
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