JOURNAL: Development in Practice. VOLUME: 18 ISSUE: 6. AUTHOR: Megan Bradley.
ABSTRACT - Co-operation between researchers in the global North and South is critical to the production of new knowledge to inform development policies. However, the agenda-setting process is a formidable obstacle in many development research partnerships. The first section of this article examines how bilateral donor strategies affect collaborative agenda-setting processes. The second section explores researchers' more...
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JOURNAL: Development in Practice. VOLUME: 18 ISSUE: 6. AUTHOR: Pablo Gutman. Much has been researched and said about the impacts of international trade liberalisation at the country level; but little is known about its social and environmental local-level impacts. Since national averages can mask the existence of winners and losers, national-level studies may be a poor guide to addressing the plight of the rural poor and the environment that are at the core of the agenda of the social and cons more...
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JOURNAL: Gender & Development. VOLUME: 16 ISSUE: 3. Authors: Rachael Hinton, Michelle Kopi, Angela Apa, Agnes Sil, Mary Kini, Jerry Kai, Yanny Guman, Daniell Cowley. In seven short years, Kup Women for Peace, a community organisation in Papua New Guinea, has gone from tribal peacebuilding to ensuring a free, fair, and violence-free election in one small part of Simbu Province. The organisation's approach was multi-faceted and locally appropriate, enfranchising many women - and educating men - more...
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SERIES: Oxfam Campaign Reports. Author: Edmund Cairns. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of armed conflicts in the world has fallen. But is this trend now about to be reversed? Climate change, poverty and inequality, and the wider availability of weapons all add to the risk of conflicts increasing. In 1949, the Geneva Conventions enshrined people’s rights to be protected from atrocities in conflict. Yet civilians are still killed, raped, and forced to flee their homes, 60 years on. In more...
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To achieve sustainable social and economic development one needs to be knowledgeable of experiences attempted by various institutions over the years. The acceptance of learning from the experiences of others is a basic feature of good management. Even when experiences have taken place in very diverse circumstances, it is always possible to draw lessons that can be adapted to our particular situation at home.
In the municipal world such sharing is not new. Particularly at national levels this more...
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Published by the Council of Europe. Synopsis: Living among other people, in their families and communities, children become aware from a very early age of questions related to justice, and they search for the meaning of the world. By fostering an understanding of human rights, shaping opinion and developing attitudes, human rights education strongly supports this natural interest and learning process. This is what human rights education is about and this is what ‘Compasito – manual on human more...
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Author(s) : Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin. Published by the Council of Europe. Synopsis:
“Diversity” has become a key term in contemporary social politics, and is often used as both a description of complex social realities and a normative prescription for how those realities should be valued, influenced by the politics of multiculturalism and by social movements asserting 'the right to be different' diversity has emerged as an open, fluid discourse that challenges reductive visions of legi more...
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