Tag Archives: gender

Gender, peace, security, slavery and cigarettes

Posted on June 11, 2015 | 1 comment

One year on from the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, the senior UN official on the issue, Zainab Bangura, has said in an interview with AFP that Yazidi and other young women abducted by ISIS in Syria and Iraq are being traded “for as little as a pack of cigarettes.” Continue reading →

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The conflict horizon 3: Only connect

Posted on April 25, 2014 | 1 comment

Scanning forward across the conflict horizon reveals looming risks after two decades of growing peace. Connecting people and connecting issues, drawing on what we have learned over the past 20 years or so of peacebuilding, can renew the growth of peace. Continue reading →

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Iceland’s economic implosion, masculinity and the credit crunch

Posted on March 9, 2009 | Leave a comment

There are many analyses around about the credit crunch and how it originated. One of the best, most insightful and innovative gives an anthropological angle on how one part of the story unfolded. It looks at what happened in Iceland that let a small group of over-confident manly men turn a small country into a major player in world finance so fast that its economy imploded. Continue reading →

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