Posted on 03 November 2011. Tags: Bahrain, dispute resolution, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, National Consensus Dialogue
Like many countries in the Middle East, Bahrain is undergoing tensions and changes manifested in the “Arab Spring” uprisings. Bahrain’s monarchy and citizens are engaged working to to determine the future shape of the country’s government through a dialogue centered on acceptable forms of government, citizen participation, and ways to sustain the country’s position as [...]
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Posted on 26 July 2011. Tags: education, environment, environmental law, Haiti
For many Haiti evokes images of absolute poverty, environmental devastation and desperate emigrants. When I think of Haiti, I see 26 young leaders dedicated to serving others and the environment. I was invited by the State Department’s Fulbright Program for the Western Hemisphere to co-lead a course in Environmental Leadership and train 26 Haitian students [...]
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Posted on 13 July 2011. Tags: land conflict, Southern Sudan, state secession
Editor’s note: This post was written in 2010 while Chris Moore, a partner at CDR Associates, was working in Sudan on the tenuous issued leading to the secession of Southern Sudan. While the temporal perspective is skewed, this post is nonetheless timely due to Southern Sudan’s recent secession and incorporation in the international community. When [...]
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Posted on 03 July 2011.
Displaced people and the ramshackle camps that house them can be seen along many streets of Dili, the small and poor capital of the newest country in Asia. On Sunday we went for an early morning walk along the beach to the downtown and saw and heard a very lively mass in an overflowing church. [...]
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