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Why peacebuilding fails and what we can do about it

UN Photo JC McIlwaine

Although research demonstrates that peacekeeping missions, on balance, have a good track record, many of the practices, habits, and narratives that shape peacebuilders’ efforts on the ground are counterproductive. This, at least, is the argument put forward by Séverine Autesserre, researcher and associate professor at Columbia University, after conducting several years of ethnographic research in […]

Canada must ban asbestos!

Asbestos Protest

Over 140 civil society organisations, medical doctors, and health experts from Canada and around the world have written to Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, calling on his government to ban asbestos.