Tag: Civil Society
120 Articles
- Science & Technology
Ecosystem Restoration as an Immunization for Humanitarian Crisis: The Case of Lake Chad
In order to stop the conflict around Lake Chad, a concerted effort of many stakeholders is needed to build a new future for the area with social and environmental contracts based…
August 7, 2020
- Society & Culture
The Republican People’s Party (CHP) is Complicit in the Erosion of Democracy in Turkey
Founded in 1919 by Turkey’s founding father Mustafa K. Ataturk as “the party of the state,” the CHP self-identifies as the social democratic party of the future with its…
August 6, 2020
- Dialogues
Dr. Gbenga Ajilore on Structural Racism and COVID-19 in the Labor Market
GJIA: Let’s start off with the big picture. Where does structural racism occur in the context of employment and the labor market, and how does this affect minorities? GA: It…
July 23, 2020
- Forum
Climate Change’s Disproportionate Impact on Women: Agricultural Workers in South Africa
Impact on Women in South Africa’s Agricultural Workforce Recent weather events across South Africa, such as the 2019 droughts, the worst in thirty-five years for some regions…
July 19, 2020
- Dialogues
Dr. Joseph Nye on “Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump”
GJIA: In your new work “Do Morals Matter,” you ask a seemingly simple but ambitious question: “Do morals matter in American foreign policy, or is American moralism…
June 17, 2020
- Society & Culture
Melting and Mining in Greenland: Understanding Arctic Climate Change Through Dialogue with Locals
Introduction Approximately 13.1 million people live in the Circumpolar North. Communities and cultures established throughout the Arctic thousands of years ago have adapted to…
May 29, 2020
- Global Governance
Street Truth and Desk Truth
This was the center of a week-long trip to the Philippines as a new Trustee of The Asia Foundation, the US non-profit that works to promote civic improvement in Asia. We started…
May 15, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
The New Disability-Inclusive Development Agenda
Positive Practices The World Bank has developed an Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) to protect against disability-based discrimination in Bank-financed projects.…
May 7, 2020
- Forum
Facing Extinction? Climate Protests after Coronavirus
The current health crisis will eventually pass, and climate change will return to everyday debate. But the surge in public concern about global warming has been interrupted, and…
May 6, 2020
- Conflict & Security
Nation Making and Nation Breaking in the Pacific Islands: the Case of Papua New Guinea
These challenges are most evident in Papua New Guinea (PNG), whose population of more than 8 million comprises hundreds of local ethnic groups speaking over 800 different…
May 5, 2020