Tag Archives: Research

Women, Men, and Peace: new issue of the Alliance for Peacebuilding online publication

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Tina Robiolle

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 | Leave a comment

Nonviolent Civil Resistance works: let’s spread the word!

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Tina Robiolle

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 | Leave a comment

The State of the World’s Girls 2013 – “In Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Girls and Disasters”

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Tina Robiolle

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 | Leave a comment

All Girls Achieving and Learning: UNGEI Policy Advocacy Agenda

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Tina Robiolle

The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) just issued its latest policy advocacy agenda, available here: The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) is a multi-stakeholder partnership committed to improving the quality and availability of girls’ education and contributing to … Continue reading →

Posted in Child Protection, Education, Fragile States, Gender Based Violence, Girls' Education, Human Rights, International Development, Women | Tagged Child Protection, Collective Advocacy, Coordinated Action, Education, Education First, Education For All, EFA, Evidence-based Solutions, Fragile States, Gender Equality, Gender Gap, Girls' education, Human Rights, I am Malala, International Development, learning outcomes, MDGs, Millenium Development Goals, Millennium Development Goals, Peacebuilding, post-2015 development agenda, Research, school-related gender-based violence, Sharing of Good Practice, transformative education, UNGEI, United Nations, United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative, Violence, Violence against women, Women's Empowerment | Leave a comment

Pillars of Peace: measuring factors that create peaceful societies

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Tina Robiolle

The Institute for Economics and Peace just released its latest report, Pillars of Peace. It provides a new conceptual framework for understanding and describing the factors that are associated with peaceful societies. The research is based on an analysis of over 4,000 … Continue reading →

Posted in Fragile States, Human Rights, Peace, Peacebuilding | Tagged Fragile States, Global Peace Index, human development, Human Rights, humanity, Institute for Economics and Peace, International Development, Peace, peace research, Peacebuilding, pillars of peace, positive peace, Research, Vision of Humanity, wellbeing | Leave a comment

“Largest global study on violence against women finds feminist movements hold the key to change”

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Tina Robiolle

“The Civic Origins of Progressive Policy Change: Combating Violence against Women in Global Perspective, 1975–2005” by MALA HTUN and S. LAUREL WELDON. A new study on violence against women conducted over four decades and in 70 countries reveals the mobilization … Continue reading →

Posted in Human Rights, International Development, Women | Tagged American Political Science Association, International Development, Research, Women | Leave a comment