A pioneering international study by researchers in Canada, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, is generating insight into how to prevent youth crime. Richard Maclure from The University of Ottawa’s faculty of education and Kathryn Campbell, from the...
In mid-October, entrepreneurs, social activists, government ministers, and academics from 67 countries came together in Montreal to find ways to promote the social and solidarity economy. Millions of Canadians already participate in this economy...
Aisha Ibrahim is the Director of the Gender Research and Documentation Centre at Fourah Bay College of the University of Sierra Leone. In 2009-2010, she was the Helleiner Visiting Research Fellow at The North-South Institute, an IDRC-funded...
This article first appeared in the Spring 2011 edition of UniWorld, a publication of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada’s Partnership Programs Division. Whether its internationalization strategy is led by senior administrators...
For Canadian youth, questioning their place in the world has become something of a rite of passage. But on the nation’s northern fringes, where few communities are accessible by road, the vision of young people is decidedly less far-sighted.The grim...
In Montreal, as in other Canadian cities, many citizens would like to rent a small plot of land or join other growers to plant and grow vegetable crops cooperatively and then share the harvest. Long waiting lists for community gardens, however...
“Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.” So intoned American man of letters Henry Van Dyke. A noble vision of a less materialistic world, some might say — but is it something that can be...
Globalization has had a profound effect on North-South relations buthas affected different regions and countries to different degrees. The extent of globalization has also been exaggerated. Only a few countries, largely in Southeast Asia, have...
In communications, health care, and economics, national policies and practices are today routinely influenced by events, discoveries, and decisions that originate beyond national borders. But what of our system of education,and particularly our...
This book brings together very insightful analyses of indigenous experience and strategies in the context of globalization from several continents and a number of theoretical perspectives. There are broad similarities making this a common struggle...
Colombia’s controversial disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration process
A feminist approach to North-South relations: the Inter Pares case
Bhutan reorganizes its education system
IDRC funds the research component of the International Forum of the Social and Solidarity Economy (FIESS)