Give Optimism a Chance
Investing in Peace: How Development Aid Can Prevent or Promote Conflict.
By Robert J. Muscat. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe. 2002.
Contrary to much of contemporary prescriptive literature, Muscat does not automatically assume that economic development is always conflict-reducing. Through a series of case studies and a detailed examination of the three cross-cutting themes of development, aid and conflict, Muscat identifies development aid as perhaps “the most powerful tool that the international community possesses as a means of non-violent conflict resolution in the Third World today” (p. xvi).
Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, WW Norton & Company, 2002, pp. 282
How beautiful is small?
CEFRAD, The Centre for Rights & Development, discusses the problems with human rights in the Seychelles.
INSPECT THIS: WMD Inspections in the United States?
INSPECT THIS: WMD Inspections in the United States? Author: Frida Berrigan, World Policy Institute Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 04/14/2003 Category: Special Report As the controversy over how long the United Nations should continue weapons inspections in Iraq rages on, questions are being raised about the United States’ stockpile of chemical and […]
Lonely at the World Bank?
Lonely at the World Bank? Author: Simon Stander Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 04/13/2005 Category: Editorial The Europeans conceded unanimously in the end, and Paul Wolfowitz will succeed Wolfensohn as President of the World Bank, with the fight against poverty as his top agenda item. And on the surface there is no […]
Peacekeeping and Gendered Relations
Television pictures of peacekeepers holding babies, handing out sweets to children, and disarming militia combine to portray these individuals as saviours of the war torn citizenry. Peacekeeper’s involvement in the reconstruction of schools, roads and utilities add to the sense that wealthier, more powerful countries wish to assist through their agreement to contribute peacekeeping troops, who in turn, are noted to impact positively on the society in question. However, these representations jostle with others that may evoke a qualitatively different response……
Mathetics and the relationship between peace and learning
The following speech, on the theme of Mathetics: a challenge for peace education, was presented by Dr Suman Shukla at the 18th IAEWP WORLD PEACE CONGRESS, held in Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
The Privatization of (Women’s) Education
Gal Harmat with an Economic Analysis of the privatizing process taking place in Israel, and the actual effects it bears for young women
Post-Conflict Macedonia: Peacebuilding With or Without Reconciliation
Biljana Vankovska offers an insight into peace-building and reconciliation in post-Ohrid Macedonia arguing that much more should be invested in the so-called human dimension of the post-conflict recovery.
Pura Vida
Jerald L. Schnoor marvels at the popular Costa Rican greeting of Pura Vida.