Report: UN Peacekeeping in DRC Offers Renewable Energy Opportunity
…to a larger share of hydropower where it is available, and to solar power in off-grid sites, the mission can save money, support local renewable energy development and energy access,…
Big Data Seeks Context, for Long-Term Relationship: Reflections on the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC)
…political science by the early 1990s: simple rational-choice based theories, rigorously grounded in individual optimization, expressed through game-theoretic models, combined with econometrics focused on causal inference, with minimal respect for…
Needs and Wants: A Feminist Approach to AI in Sub-Saharan Africa
…— particularly internet penetration, digital infrastructure, and economic innovation — vulnerable and poor communities still have limited access to digital technologies due to infrastructure fragility. Most web sites are available…
A Free World That Works
…Woods institutions (the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank), and a network of alliances among like-minded states. This selective approach was not a flaw but a feature: it…
The Multi-Aligned in Orbital Space
…advanced space capabilities, and China gains additional access to satellite launch sites and advances its Belt and Road Initiative. But many of those same African states are also collaborating with…
Good Governance Is the Only Real Way to Provide Food Security
…the eurozone, the government was seeking to put a fresh face on the country’s national brand, already associated with great food and wonderful tourist sites. Read the full article here….
Prioritization & Sequencing of Security Council Mandates: The Case of UNMISS
…state and government of Algeria, Chad, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa. See: African Union, “Statement of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the AU Ad Hoc High-Level Committee for South…
Revising The UN Peacekeeping Mandate In South Sudan
…to the conflict as the United Nations mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has struggled to protect civilians within and beyond its protection of civilians (POC) sites. This report by the…