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- Nigeria and the Horror of Boko Haram
03/09/2015
"Like other radical insurgencies, Boko Haram is fueled by poor governance, political marginalization, and its region's deepening impoverishment," says former Ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell. "However, it is also shaped by specifically Nigerian circumstances and factors." This talk helps us understand Boko Haram's roots, ideology, and goals.
03/09/15 - A United Front in the War for Wildlife
04/04/2014
Conservationists need a unified approach to stop the illegal trade in wildlife: species protection, human development, good governance, and enforcement.
04/04/14 - Innovation to the Rescue: New Ideas and Tech for Helping Refugees
03/21/2013
The UN refugee agency is adopting an innovation-centered approach in pursuit of better services, products, and outcomes for displaced populations.
03/21/13 - Public Affairs: Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
05/09/2012
ExxonMobil is rather like France, says Steve Coll. It's mostly aligned with the U.S; it's sometimes opposed, but a lot of the time it's just busy keeping track of its own separate system and really doesn't want to be entangled in U.S. power unless it serves ExxonMobil interests.
05/09/12 - The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
03/12/2012
According to Michael Ross, it's no coincidence that major oil-producing countries have less democracy, fewer opportunities for women, more frequent civil wars, and more volatile economic growth than the rest of the world.
03/12/12 - Michael Doyle on Nonintervention and the Responsibility to Protect
03/10/2010
What circumstances justify overriding sovereignty? Michael Doyle discusses the difficult questions surrounding nonintervention and the "unanimous revolution" of 2005, which led to the new norm known as the Responsibility to Protect.
03/10/10 - Alternative Fuels Take Root in Refugee Camps
12/09/2008
Faced with scarce firewood, humanitarian organizations are introducing efficient alternative-fuel stoves to Darfur and other refugee camps worldwide.
12/09/08 - Oil and Turmoil
03/12/2008
Despite oil's tortured history, it must not be summarily dismissed as a cause of turmoil in Africa.
03/12/08 - Business Ethics Gone Without TRACE
02/29/2008
As a neutral third party, TRACE works with commercial competitors to address the challenges they all face, delivering an antibribery message to corrupt officials.
02/29/08 - A Central African Affair: Chad's Insurgency Highlights Ongoing Genocide in Darfur
02/07/2008
The international community could act to stop the genocide in Darfur. For example, it could pressure China and enact an EU trade and investment moratorium. But it's more likely that we will continue to stand by and watch.
02/07/08