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The beginning of 2015 has been marked by violence in many parts of Northern Mali. Most prominently in Tabankort, Kidal and Gao, but there have also been attacks in neighbouring regions. Including in the first week of March, in the capital, Ba...

In response to the Northern Triangle trilogy: Regional donor programmes focus on prevention to reduce crime and violence on the streets of the ‘Northern Triangle’ countries.

In response to Seth Kaplan: shifting from externally designed to local solutions, and from seeing poverty as isolated to the periphery to it being interconnected with the global economy and its inequalities.

Social businesses that operate in high-, low- and medium-income countries face five overarching challenges.

An old yet surprisingly relevant political idea – the social contract -- is today making the running in the competitive world of aid and development paradigms. 

Actividades extractivas tienen que integrar los intereses estratégicos y las urgencias económicas de los gobiernos con las demandas de los pueblos indígenas.

Restricting the mining industry’s access to raw materials will narrow the profit base for mining companies and metal traders, but it will pay dividends on many other levels.

Deforestation-related conflict reflects the power relations between forest users.

The expansion of the extractive frontiers affects the territories of local populations in Latin America.

In 2007, Ecuador launched the Yasuní-ITT initiative, a proposal to leave oil in the soil of the Yasuní National Park in exchange for financial compensation from the international community.

Complexity theory sheds light on the essential role of self-organization in sustainable peace consolidation

To really tackle the resource curse, local communities need to obtain a meaningful and informed position in consultation processes, at the negotiation table and in monitoring panels.

There is no easy answer to the question of the fate of Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT region, but a few key steps can maximize the areas of agreement of the many vested interests.

The World Conference on Humanitarian Studies created space for debating international engagement in fragile and conflict-affected settings

‘A big idea from a small country’. This is how Ecuador promoted its proposal to leave oil in the soil of Yasuní National Park in exchange for financial compensation from the international community. Yet, in August 2013– six years after its officia...

Non-state governance: The legitimacy of non-state and state authorities in (post-) conflict settings should be understood from the perspective of citizens. 

The rising production of soy for the global market has been one of the main drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. This is not only affecting the biodiversity of the Amazon region, but is also engendering severe violent conflicts in the...

Fragile states are characterized by a variety of institutional arrangements that exist alongside each other. This institutional multiplicity is a complex phenomenon, but not necessarily ‘good’ or ‘bad’. For donors and development organizations, it...

A fisheries conflict in Canada shows how power dynamics affect the lives of an aboriginal community.

One of the key insights from policy discourses on fragile states is that these states can contain a variety of non-state forms of public authority. It has been convincingly argued that in the absence of functioning states, societies are not 'ungov...

If China is the world’s factory, then Qingyang town represents the forefront of production.

Assuming a joint approach would unleash agricultural potential and strengthen the market, Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have dominated global food security strategies. The debate highlights several strategies, for example, focusing on the loc...

The public-public partnerships that are currently being implemented throughout Latin America are an important, but often neglected, alternative to water sector privatization. 

In order to solve the water crisis, we need to change our definition and perspective of water from a commodity and a resource to a sacred feminine entity

The world of faith is a powerful and often neglected partner in the effort to overcome water challenges.

To be effective, strategies on providing drinking water in urban India should tap into complex formal and informal governance networks.

It is crucial to be aware of deeply-rooted gender structures and to create gender-equity in land tenure, in order to guarentee both water and food security.

Debating future water policy should integrate its religious and cultural values, instead of framing it as a commodity, argues Pauline Tangiora from the New Zealand Earth Charter Commissioner and Indigenous Grandmother

Bringing work and workplaces to the center of attention restores citizens to their rightful position as the agents of a democratic way of life.  In work-centered democracy attention to inequality of agency everywhere – not simply formal polit...

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The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is restoring historic buildings in cities across the Muslim world. While culture can be a catalyst for development, urban poverty remains a massive challenge.Interview by Ellen Lammers

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Communication for Sustainable Social Change is a new Centre-of-Excellence opening within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts.