Fragility Conflict and Violence

Veuves pauvres et négligées au Mali

Comme beaucoup de lecteurs, j’étais consciente de la discrimination et du sévère désavantage auxquels les veuves font face dans de nombreux pays.  Néanmoins, ce que j’ai trouvé en examinant des…

Dominique van de Walle|
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Gender, Education, Health, Poverty

Neglected and poor widows in Mali

In common with many readers, I was aware of the discrimination and severe disadvantage faced by widows in many countries.  Nonetheless, I was completely unprepared for what I found when I looked…

Dominique van de Walle|
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Gender, Poverty

Could Youth-Led Reconciliation Put Sri Lanka Back on the Map?

The three decade long war in Sri Lanka was instigated due to unmet youth aspirations. Today, Sri Lanka is well known as a post conflict country. No Sri Lankan in their right minds would like to…

Dilinika Peiris|
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Education

Leaving the two Congos

Working for the two Congos – DR Congo, Kinshasa and Congo Republic, Brazzaville (the closest two capital cities in the world) – over the last three-and-a-half years has been like running a fast-…

Marie Francoise Marie-Nelly|
Fragility Conflict and Violence, Governance, Education

Ever on the brink of disaster

Earlier this month, I participated in a four-day mission to Mandera, a county in northeastern Kenya, some 640 km from Nairobi on the Somali border. The European Commission’s Humanitarian Agency (…

Fred Owegi|
Agriculture and Food, Fragility Conflict and Violence, Environment, Gender, Education
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Fragility Conflict and Violence