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Prevention and Peacebuilding

Digital Equity as an Enabling Platform for Equality and Inclusion

The global pandemic has laid bare the digital inequities across vertical (income) and horizontal (social, political, and identity) dimensions, while exposing the extent to which pre-pandemic approaches to bridging the digital divide have been dominated by economic considerations even while they are not universally treated as policy priorities.

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Jun 09, 2021
Laura E. Bailey, Nanjala Nyabola
Latin America, South Asia
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Inequality, Lockdown, and COVID-19: Unequal Societies Struggle to Contain the Virus

There is nothing equal about COVID-19. It is now well established that poor and underprivileged social groups have absorbed most of the pandemic’s negative impact. However, the connection between COVID-19 and inequality might run even deeper. During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, one additional point of the Gini coefficient correlated with a 1.34 percentage point higher rate of weekly new infections across countries. This difference in infection rates compounds like interest every week.

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Apr 13, 2021
Paul Von Chamier
Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

The Just Transition in Energy

With each new year of data, and each new intergovernmental report, it becomes harder to deny the scale and urgency of the energy transition required to prevent catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges countries to take action to prevent a rise in temperature by more than 1.5°C, and warns of catastrophic consequences of a rise above 2°C. Yet current policies and pledges fall far short of hitting these targets.

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Dec 18, 2020
Ian Goldin
China, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Crises, International Security
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Strengthening Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding at the UN and IFIs: Key Ideas and Recommendations

All three of the recent UN secretary-general reports on peacebuilding and sustaining peace (2018, 2019, and 2020) take note of the need to enhance collaboration between the UN—not only its development system but also its peace and security and humanitarian arms—with international financial institutions (IFIs), namely the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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Dec 09, 2020
Sarah Cliffe, Paige Arthur, Leah Zamore
Europe, Horn of Africa, Latin America, Middle East
United Nations
Multilateral Reform

Inclusive COVID-19 Relief Finance

This paper analyzes COVID-19 relief spending in ten countries to assess whether governments are investing resources in inclusive programs that will lead to the desired goal of ‘building back better.’ The results of this analysis indicate that current investments are likely to maintain the status quo, and potentially lead to a deepening of inequalities by overlooking urgent needs of marginalized groups affected by the social and economic effects of the pandemic. The countries analyzed are the following: Canada, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mexico, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Sweden, Tunisia, and Uruguay.

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Jul 07, 2021
Amanda Lenhardt
East Asia, Latin America, South Asia, South Africa
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Nikki Haley enfrenta un difícil estreno diplomático en la ONU representando a Trump

Nikki Haley enfrenta un difícil estreno diplomático en la ONU representando a Trump De ser ratificada su nominación por el Senado, la gobernadora de Carolina del Sur llegará a la ONU con cero experiencia internacional y con un presidente que presagia profundos cambios en la relación de EEUU con el mundo.

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Nov 30, 2016
Antonieta Cadiz
Latin America, United States
Prevention and Peacebuilding
United Nations

Meeting Summary | Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives on the ‘Means of Implementation’ for SDG 16 in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

On 24 February 2015, the Igarapé Institute and NYU’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) convened a meeting bringing together representatives from UN member states and agencies as well as civil society organizations for an interactive discussion on Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) experience in relation to the ‘means of implementation’ for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16: to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.

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Feb 24, 2015
Jeffrey Strew
Latin America
Post 2015 Development
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Big Questions on Trade and Development for Latin America in 2015

Grandes preguntas, comercio, América Latina, Julieta Merlo

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Julieta Merlo visited NYU CIC from the Universidad de Chile for 3 months in 2014 to research the role of the BRICS and middle-income countries in shaping the post-2015 development agenda. In this blog, she comments on Latin America’s likely trade and development priorities in the near term.

Latin America will face some important economic and political challenges in 2015 because export commodity prices are falling. In this context, trade and development policies will be crucial for closing the economic and finance gap.

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May 07, 2015
Julieta Merlo
Latin America
Post 2015 Development
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Grandes preguntas para el comercio y desarrollo en América Latina para el 2015

Grandes preguntas, comercio, América Latina, Julieta Merlo

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Julieta Merlo visitó el NYU CIC desde la Universidad de Chile por 3 meses durante el 2014 para investigar el rol de BRICS en la elaboración de la agenda de desarrollo post-2015. En este blog resume sus hallazgos.

América Latina enfrentará importantes desafíos en el año 2015 porque os precios de exportación de los commodities están cayendo. En este contexto, las políticas de comercio y desarrollo serán cruciales para cerrar la brecha económica y financiera.

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May 07, 2015
Julieta Merlo
Latin America
Post 2015 Development
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Anti-Social Capital in Former Members of Non-State Armed Groups: A Case Study of Colombia

A new article by CIC’s Ben Oppenheim, along with Enzo Nussio, analyzes the challenges of reintegrating former members of insurgent and paramilitary groups after war. While disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration programming (DDR) is a key component of many post-conflict reconstruction processes, there is relatively little evidence about the longer-term trajectories of former fighters.

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Feb 19, 2015
Ben Oppenheim
Latin America
International Security
Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

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