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Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises, Post 2015 Development

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Detect, Dismantle, and Disarm: IAEA Verification, 1992-2005

After the discovery of a covert nuclear program in Iraq in 1991, the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) role transformed from promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy to verifying compliance with nonproliferation agreements. Over the next decade, the nuclear programs of three other countries - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, South Africa, and Libya - further tested the IAEA's ability to locate nuclear weapons and dismantle them.

Publication Date: Mar 04, 2013

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Christine Wing, Fiona Simpson

Region/Country: East Asia, Middle East, Libya, South Africa

Topic(s): Global Governance, International Security

The Aid Worker Security Database

The Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) records major incidents of violence against aid workers, with incident reports from 1997 through the present. Initiated in 2005, to date the AWSD remains the single most comprehensive global source of this data, providing a much-needed quantitative evidence base for analysis of the changing security environment for civilian aid operations. For more detail on the AWSD click here.

Publication Date: Jan 05, 2009

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Abby Stoddard, Adele Harmer, Katherine Haver

Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Horn of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises

Program(s): Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Engagement on Development and Security: New Actors, New Debates

In the past several years, key governments and multilateral institutions have devoted considerable effort to the task of more effectively integrating development and security policy responses to the related challenges of countries affected by conflict, post-conflict peacebuilding, and conflict prevention. The looming deadline of the Millennium Development Goals, has focused attention on this important nexus and the near impossibility of crisis- and conflict-affected states achieving these goals unless development and security is more effectively integrated.

Publication Date: Sep 05, 2011

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Megan Gleason-Roberts, WPS Sidhu, Bruce Jones

Region/Country: China, East Asia, Brazil, India, South Africa

Topic(s): Fragile States, G8 and G20, International Security, Peace Operations

Program(s): Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

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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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Publication Date: Jul 07, 2021
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Amanda Lenhardt
Region/Country: East Asia, Latin America, South Asia, South Africa
Program(s): Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
Social Dialogue as a Tool to Fight Inequality & Recover After a Pandemic

Si vis pacem, cole justitiam” – “If you desire peace, cultivate justice,” is the motto enshrined in the foundations of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) building in Geneva, established in 1919. World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the fear of communism that followed, had convinced world leaders that, “universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice,” as they stated in the 1919 Versailles Treaty. Widespread injustice, inequalities, and exclusion were the enemies of peace. Many would argue they are no less relevant today.

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Publication Date: Jul 06, 2021
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Liv Tørres
Region/Country: South Africa
Program(s): Pathfinders for 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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Publication Date: Apr 13, 2021
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Paul Von Chamier
Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa
Topic(s): Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises
Program(s): Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

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African Perspectives on Peacebuilding: Opportunities for 2015

Nov 19, 2014

In November, CIC joined with the Institute of Security Studies to host a discussion with member state representatives and UN staff on African perspectives on the future of peacebuilding. Peacebuilding continues to gain recognition in international and national spheres for the crucial role it plays in laying the foundations for sustainable peace. In the last two decades, the United Nations has developed its peacebuilding architecture (PBA) in order to strengthen its responses to countries recovering from conflict.

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Detect, Dismantle, and Disarm: IAEA Verification, 1992-2005

The Aid Worker Security Database

Engagement on Development and Security: New Actors, New Debates

Related Publications

Inclusive COVID-19 Relief Finance

Social Dialogue as a Tool to Fight Inequality & Recover After a Pandemic

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

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African Perspectives on Peacebuilding: Opportunities for 2015