Lessons from Canadian Involvement in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
As Stephen Brown noted in a recent blog, much of the media commentary on the latest Peer Review of Canada’s development co-operation has focused on its recommendations to increase spending and...
View ArticleCanada’s Afghanistan Aid Urgently Needs Review — But That Doesn’t Mean We...
The recent interaction of John Sopko — the American Special Inspector General of Afghanistan Reconstruction — with the Canadian media on billions of wasted aid dollars in Afghanistan has stirred...
View ArticleA Nation in Transition: Afghan Perspectives on Society, Politics, and...
In Part 1 of this blog, we looked at some results from the Asia Foundation’s annual survey of the Afghan people, comparing the results from 2004 and 2018 on such issues as national mood, fear for...
View ArticleA Nation in Transition: Afghan Perspectives on Society, Politics, and...
The survey of the Afghan people, undertaken by the Asia Foundation every year since 2004, is an important barometer, tracking opinions on social, political, economic, and security conditions in their...
View Article“Nothing to Lose”: The Daily Struggles of Venezuelans
By Rosana Lezama Sanchez Venezuelan emigrants always talk about how much they miss the country they left behind. I returned to Caracas in August of 2018, but I too miss Venezuela. The Venezuela that I...
View ArticleHaiti: Beyond the Headlines
For a few weeks after protests reignited in Haiti’s major cities on 7 February 2019, the media carried images of angry protesters and much speculation on what this meant for the embattled country....
View ArticleOut of Fragility: Evidence from Bangladesh, Part 2
The Bangladesh government’s significant strides in delivering basic services to the population, thus reinforcing its legitimacy, discussed in part 1 of this blog, have been enhanced by an...
View ArticleOut of Fragility: Evidence from Bangladesh, Part 1
Almost 50 years ago, Bangladesh emerged as a new nation in 1971 out of a bloody war of independence with Pakistan that left three million dead and ten million refugees. It then found itself caught in a...
View Article“If you want to kill me, please kill me quick”
The images, and voices, from Libya’s migrant detention centres are sickening. An online blog posted a letter written by an anonymous refugee from Darfur, detained in Libya. “RS” writes of having left...
View ArticleCAR’s Peace Accords and Rebel Warlords
By Gino Vlavonou After ten years in power, in 2013, Séléka rebels ousted the Central African Republic’s (CAR) President François Bozizé, after which Anti-Balaka militia groups rose up in response. The...
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