In tackling issues of justice and violence, spatiality and the physical layout of urban communities comes to be important factors for examination.
Over the last two decades, the state-led production of space, as part of worlding cities, has introduced new structural violences into the lives of poor groups in Durban, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro, and has met with resistance.
Major findings of this cross-country research show that while the traditional “modernity” variables remain important determinants of democracy in the long-run, they fail to explain the persistence of the Arab democracy deficit relative to other co
IDRC's Expert and Advisory Fund (EASF) aimed to support Canada's role in the multilateral peace process in the Middle East focusing on the issue of Palestinian refugees.
Over the past decade, television broadcasting has become central in shaping public attitudes in the Middle East.
The 2002 Arab Human Development Report identified a fundamental "freedom deficit" in the Arab World evident in the widespread authoritarianism and lack of democracy throughout the region.
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.