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Weekly Wire: The Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.International IDEADo Accountability Mechanisms in Safety Nets Improve Access to Social Services? The...
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What a Difference Political Culture Makes
While democracy is developing and strengthening in more and more countries across the world, there may be some lessons to learn from older, established democracies. Democracy does not equal democracy –...
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Twitter vs. Facebook: Bringing Transparency to the Middle East
Think about it:Twitter limits all "conversations" to 140 wordsTwitter allows privacy whereas Facebook is based on discovery of relationshipsTwitter relationships can be one way, the way real...
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Of Protests, Politics, and Policies
The recent massive streets protests against the brutal and deadly assault on a young woman in a private bus in India capital, New Delhi, have been likened to the Arab Spring of India, a definitive...
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A Better Baghdad?
This morning I tapped “Baghdad News” into Google and over half of the first 40 results were about bombing and violence. A further 12% of results were political analysis (mostly about bombing and...
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Building the “Iraqi Media” – A Book Review
Ten years after Iraq was declared as liberated, many are reflecting on how Iraq presents itself to the world today. Our mediatised view of the country is one rife with renewed sectarian divide, and as...
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Quote of the Week: Nawal El Saadawi
"Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible."-- Nawal El Saadawi is a leading Egyptian feminist,...
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Look Who Has a Megaphone!
In an interview on TN TV Channel, Argentina in November 2013 Pope Francis said that, “Today we are living in an unjust international system in which ‘King Money’ is at the center.” He continued, “It is...
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Weekly Wire: The Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Most Of What We Need For Smart Cities Already Exists Forbes The compelling thing about the emerging...
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Media (R)evolutions: Attitudes and Behaviors of MENA Internet Users
New developments and curiosities from a changing global media landscape: People, Spaces, Deliberation brings trends and events to your attention that illustrate that tomorrow's media environment will...
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New Study Offers Us Fresh Insights into the Attitudes and Behaviors of Online...
Damian Radcliffe outlines a new report from Qatar’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology on internet behaviors in the Middle East. To read the full report, click here. Qatar’s Ministry...
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What Happens when 20 Middle East Decision Makers Discuss Theories of Change?
My first job after returning from holiday (disaster tourism in Northern Ireland – don’t ask) was to speak on Theories of Change to a really interesting group – ‘building a rule of law leadership...
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Weekly wire: The global forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.The surprising benefits of autocratic elections Washington Post After a bitterly contested election...
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These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Finalised text for adoption...
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What kind of evidence might persuade people to change their minds on refugees?
Oxfam Humanitarian Policy Adviser Ed Cairns reflects on using evidence to influence the treatment of refugees. Who thinks that governments decide what to do on refugees after carefully considering the...
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