Humanitarian emergencies are not simply brute facts that appeal directly to our emotions or our moral sensibilities. They are one of the important ways in which perceptions of human life, sympathy for suffering, and responses to social upheaval have...
Mr. Malley will reflect on the situation in the Arab world a year after the popular uprisings that began in Tunisia. Mr. Malley, who has just returned from Egypt, will discuss the new political landscape that is taking shape, including the new role...
Shanthi Dairiam, Founder and First Executive Director of International Women’s Rights Action Watch–Asia Pacific is giving the 14th Annual Dame Nita Barrow Lecture on Women's Human Rights: The Promise and the Reality — A World View from Women’s...
In August 2011, the Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) and Think Tank Initiative (TTI) grantee Grupo FARO co-hosted a workshop, "Using knowledge for more effective policy influence” in Lima, Peru. TTI supported the...
The Think Tank Initiative launched its Africa program at the annual meetings of the African Development Bank in Dakar, Senegal on May 11. Think Tank Initiative supporters — Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the Bill & Melinda...
Ottawa, Canada, August 31, 2009 – Barbara Ibrahim, a renowned expert on the Arab World’s philanthropic sector, will be in Ottawa on September 3 to deliver a lecture at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). In her presentation “Arab...