Poverty: Leaving it to the Petty-Bourgeoisie Author: Simon Stander Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 10/27/2006 Category: Editorial Poverty: Leaving it to the Petty-Bourgeoisie In the same year as Orhan Pamuk, also a Muslim, to be awarded the Nobel for literature, Muhammad Yunus has been awarded the Nobel Peace

UN Reform Author: Simon Stander Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 12/08/2004 Category: Editorial On 2 December 2004, the high-level panel of reform of the UN reported to Kofi Annan. The panel was indeed high-level, but, interestingly, excluded anyone from the academic world:   Anand Panyarachun (Chairman), former

Key Words: Problem Solving, Goemai, Pan, ethnic conflict, Nigeria, Lederach, Galtung

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