In terms of the course aims, three central issues relating to the narrative of peace building are essential: 1) the connection between peacebuilding and state-building 2) the possibility of contradictions and trade-offs between the short term goal
Low-income, urban communities in East Africa must negotiate their security in the face of weak, unresponsive, or abusive state security forces.
African countries need adequate data as a basis for formulating and implementing systematic and coherent food security policies and strategies.
Both the social science literature and policymakers tend to take for granted that poverty reduction, risk mitigation and democratization are mutually reinforcing.
The paper looks at political leadership by women and the implications for women in the Anglophone Caribbean by assessing Caribbean women’s progress against the progress of women in selected outliers-Switzerland, Finland and Rwanda.