COMMENTARY Kemal Kirişci and Friedrich Püttmann According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are more than 29 million refugees worldwide under its mandate. Most of...
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COMMENTARY Kemal Kirişci and Friedrich Püttmann According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are more than 29 million refugees worldwide under its mandate. Most of...
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What should be the top priority for Africa in 2023? Aloysius Uche Ordu On Monday, January 30, the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative (AGI) will launch its annual flagship report, Foresight Africa. ...
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By Reva Dhingra Twelve years after the 2011 uprisings and subsequent civil war began, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has kept his hold on power through a strategy of civilian targeting, siege...
Peacebuilding encompasses a wide variety of activities aimed at halting or preventing violent conflict within or between states and helping societies to heal after conflict does occur. These...
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By Jennifer Gordon Editor's Note: This is a viewpoint from the USMCA Forward 2023 report where experts dive into the opportunities and complementary actions needed to build more integrated,...
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Kemal Kirişci Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Turkey Project The massive earthquakes that struck Turkey on February 6 have again upended the...
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By George Ingram and Naheed Sarabi, Tuesday, February 14, 2023 The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has under review a draft revision of its 2012 resilience policy for fragile and...
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By Mounir Siaplay and Eric Werker As West Africa enters 2023, the region faces a new period of instability following recent coups d’état in Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Mali. These coups are occurring...
By Vanda Felbab-Brown Afghanistan in 2023 will be shaped by whether or not the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, retains his tight grip on all decisionmaking. The second crucial...
By Vanda Felbab-Brown On January 10, Haiti lost its last vestige of democratic representation when the term of its 10 senators, who nominally represent 11 million people, expired. Now there are no...
As the war in Ukraine approaches its first anniversary, attention has turned to plans for reconstruction. Among the array of policy briefs, commentaries, and political summits, one critical piece...
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Maysa Jalbout Nonresident Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education Headshot of Katy Bullard Katy Bullard Education Consultant Globally, education is in crisis, with...
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Although it may come up in discussions about adaptation and loss and damage as a result of climate change, climate migration is not on the agenda for next week’s U.N. Climate Change Conference, known...
Last year, climate action was all about declaring dates for achieving net-zero carbon emissions. At the 2021 UN's climate change conference in Glasgow, COP26, India pledged that it would reach...
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Omer Karasapan In October 2022 the U.N. listed 7.6 million Ukrainian refugees across Europe, including 2.85 million in Russia — many of the latter were sent there by Russian occupiers and were...
In recent decades, as risks of fragility, conflict, violence, climate change, and famine have soared, the number of people fleeing their homes and seeking refuge has risen to 27 million. By 2050, it...
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By Halimatou Hima, 2022 Echidna Global Scholar - Brookings Institution Education, Policy and Learning - Global Partnership for Education (GPE), halimahima The provision of education in...
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By Sally Paxton and George Ingram July 13, 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of Publish What You Fund’s Aid Transparency Index. This year’s 2022 Index included 50 of the top global donors, including...
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Micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) constitute the backbone of most countries’ economies, representing about 90 percent of businesses and more than 50 percent of employment...
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Omer Karasapan Partner - Strategies for Stability In May 2022 as around 15 million Ukrainians fled their homes, the number of people forcefully displaced across the world passed the 100 million mark...