“Peace First” by Ambassador Uri Savir is now available from Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Savir, who acted as Chief Negotiator for Israel in the Oslo Peace Accords and is also President of the Glocal Forum, promotes glocalization as a feasible model for a modern culture of peace. His narrative outlines his model while drawing on past experiences as a peacemaker and examples in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Northern Ireland, and the former Yugoslavia.&nb more...
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Developed countries provide billions of dollars of aid to developing nations every year. Although some of these funds have yielded positive results, much appears to have had little tangible impact. This has led to substantial “donor fatigue” and a justifiable questioning of whether developed countries should be providing more aid resources. It is extremely difficult for elected officials to explain to their constituents why they send their taxes to a far-away country with unclear results, es more...
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For any policy priority, a given level of resources will only have its maximum impact when there is information about the effectiveness of alternative uses for those resources. Yet in the case of aid spending there is remarkably little good evidence on the relative effectiveness of alternative ways to spend aid. Figuring out what is the most effective way to reduce poverty is not as simple as it might appear. Consider the following example: A new headmaster arrives at a school full of enthusiasm more...
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Vaccines are among the world’s most effective health interventions. Three million lives are saved each year by a standard package of cheap, off-patent vaccines which reaches three-quarters of the world’s children. Coverage is considerably lower for newer vaccines. However, despite recent scientific advances which have increased the feasibility of developing malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS vaccines, global R&D on these vaccines is woefully inadequate. Funds for global public and non-profit ma more...
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Global public goods have benefits which go beyond the person or country that paid for them. For example, if a country invests in R&D for new scientific discoveries in health or agriculture, the benefits will be available to everyone, not just the country that paid for it. This characteristic of public goods means that there will usually be too little investment in them. A wide range of global public goods - from health R&D to preventing climate change - suffer from lack of investment. Wealthy co more...
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This task force’s vision is to encourage global aid policies that are more effective at improving the lives of the poor and address disillusionment about what aid can achieve. How does it work?
The task force aims to agree to a set of broad principles that can be used to refocus aid and make it more effective and to shift the current debate from whether aid works to how it can be made to work better through discussions with the Young Global Leader (YGL) community, using both online debate more...
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The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a newly formed, unique, multi-stakeholder community of the world’s most extraordinary leaders who are 40 years old or younger and who are ready to dedicate a part of their time and energy to jointly work towards a better future. Each year we identify 200-300 exceptional individuals, drawn from every region in the world and from a myriad of disciplines and sectors. Together, they form a powerful international community which can dramatically impact the globa more...
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