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Peacekeeping at the Precipice: Is Everything Going Wrong for the UN?

On October 14 through 16, Richard Gowan participated in the Challenges Forum, an annual peacekeeping conference in Beijing. The Challenges Forum is a strategic and dynamic platform for dialogue among policymakers, practitioners and academics on key issues and developments in peace operations. The aim is to shape the debate by promoting awareness of emerging issues and identifying key challenges facing military, police and civilian peace operations.

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Oct 14, 2014
Richard Gowan
China, Europe
Peace Operations

El laboratorio del desarrollo: El impacto de las políticas sociales en los niños y niñas de America Latina y el Caribe

La región de América Latina y el Caribe se distingue por la amplitud y variedad de políticas que ha desarrollado para responder a las oportunidades y los riesgos de la globalización. Este informe, elaborado por NYU CIC para UNICEF en América Latina y el Caribe, explora cómo la región puede caracterizarse como un laboratorio para el desarrollo sostenible. El informe se enfoca particularmente en el progreso alcanzado con respecto a las obligaciones de la región según la Convención Internacional sobre los Derechos del Niño así como en las políticas que han apoyado este progreso y en las lecciones que se pueden aprender para mejorar el papel de la niñez en la agenda regional y global de desarrollo sostenible.

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Sep 29, 2014
David Steven, Alejandra Kubitschek Bujones
Latin America
Emerging Powers, Food Security, Post 2015 Development, Resource Scarcity
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Iran and Its Neighbors: Regional Implications for U.S. Policy of a Nuclear Agreement

On September 17, 2014 CIC Director Barnett Rubin spoke on a panel at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The event accompanied the launch of a report which examines the impact of US policy on a nuclear agreement on the Middle East. For more information on the event and report, please visit the Woodrow Wilson Center.

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Sep 17, 2014
Middle East, United States

Policy Roundtable: Global Perspectives on Peaceful and Inclusive Societies and the Post-2015 Framework

On September 4-5, 2014 CIC partnered with Saferworld and the Permanent Mission of Mexico to host a policy roundtable entitled Global Perspectives on Peaceful and Inclusive Societies and the Post-2015 Framework: A Dialogue between Experts and Member States. A small group of experts from India, Turkey, South Africa, Brazil, and Ethiopia gathered in New York to discuss peace and governance issues in a development context during a day-long discussion on September 4th.

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Sep 04, 2014
Post 2015 Development
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Endgame for ETA: Elusive Peace in the Basque Country

The violent Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco's Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards it became an aberration, a criminal and terrorist band whose persistence defied explanation. Others, mainly Basques (but only some Basques) understood ETA as the violent expression of a political conflict that remained the unfinished business of Spain's transition to democracy. Such differences hindered efforts to 'defeat' ETA's terrorism on the one hand and 'resolve the Basque conflict' on the other for more than three decades.

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Sep 03, 2014
Teresa Whitfield
Europe
International Security

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