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
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Joseph E Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, WW Norton & Company, 2002, pp. 282
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CEFRAD, The Centre for Rights & Development, discusses the problems with human rights in the Seychelles.
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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
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Some places like Sarajevo are apparently getting back to normal, but normality seems a long way off in the former Yugoslavia, especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Some victims who survived can still see their torturers walking around living “normal” lives but only say “I don’t know why this happened.” Some victims go
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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
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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
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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.
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