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Online discussion with Edmund Terence Gomez regarding his paper ‘Inter-Ethnic Relations, Business and Identity - The Chinese in Britain and Malaysia’
19 Sep 2005
Edmund Terence Gomez has drafted a paper entitled ‘Inter-Ethnic Relations, Business and Identity - The Chinese in Britain and Malaysia’ and would like to hear the thoughts of his peers via email or by the UNRISD discussion forum where an online debate is being held.
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UNRISD Research Findings Underline Ambivalent Developments in UN Discussions on Future Participation of Civil Society
21 Jun 2005
Diplomats, researchers and practitioners gathered in Malta from 11–13 February 2005 to discuss multistakeholder diplomacy and other aspects of contemporary diplomacy. The event, which was organized by DiploFoundation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malta, the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), was part of the preparatory process of the World Summit on the Information Society and Internet Governance’s (WSIS) second phase, to be held in Tunis in November 2005.
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Women’s Influence on Public Policy and Governance
16 Feb 2005
In the past decade, women’s visibility in and impact on public life has grown. Although the average proportion of women in national assemblies has only increased from 9 per cent to almost 16 per cent, in 16 countries the proportion has reached 30 per cent or more. What factors promote women’s access to representative politics? Do women in public office really promote women’s interests in public decision making? Under what conditions can they and their male allies be effective in producing gender-sensitive public policy?
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Major New Series Explores Social Policy and Development
1 Dec 2004
The long-awaited groundbreaking UNRISD series on social policy and development is about to be launched. It is the intellectual output of a group of nine research endeavours carried out under the Social Policy in a Development Context project that mobilized researchers in many countries for over four years. The cluster of projects and the resulting books collectively explore one of the greatest challenges of our time--that is the building of a state-society nexus that is developmental, democratic and socially inclusive.
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L’UNRISD explore les causes des crises au Rwanda et au Burundi
11 Nov 2004
«Au coeur des crises nationales au Rwanda et au Burundi: La lutte pour les ressources», comme son titre l’indique, est un livre qui explore les causes des crises qui, depuis des années, plongent la région des Grands lacs dans un cycle d’horreurs sans nom. Le livre, écrit par le chercheur burundais Marc Rwabahungu pour le compte de l’Institut, a été coédité avec les éditions L’Harmattan.
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3 Nov 2005
Guest lecture by Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University, 26 Sep 2005, Geneva, Switzerland.
17 Oct 2005
Online discussion with Edmund Terence Gomez regarding his paper ‘Inter-Ethnic Relations, Business and Identity - The Chinese in Britain and Malaysia’
19 Sep 2005
UNRISD Research Findings Underline Ambivalent Developments in UN Discussions on Future Participation of Civil Society
21 Jun 2005
Three New Research Projects Developed at UNRISD
13 Jun 2005
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