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  • The Complex Dance Around China’s Overseas Projects

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    China Environment Forum  //  Guest Contributor  //  October 6, 2022  //  By Alvin Camba & Victoria Chonn Ching
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    China dominates the world in its overseas development finance into power plants, mines, dams, and other infrastructure. However, while many projects sail through, a good many get stalled. The results have less to do with Beijing and more with the strength of the host country partners. There is a complex dance between governments, elites, and bureaucrats to win the best “deal” with China, including Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects. These deals may benefit not just the economy, but also may empower one of these three actors. 

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  • Protecting Human Rights in DRC Cobalt Mines: A U.S. Priority in a Green Transition

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 4, 2022  //  By Roger-Mark De Souza
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    Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken recently reaffirmed the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)—a nation located in Africa’s heart—as a “geostrategic player and critical partner” for the United States. It is a country that features prominently in climate change discussions, not only because of  its vast natural resources (including mineral wealth estimated to be the largest in the world, as well as possession of a forest cover second only to the Amazon Basin), but especially due to its cobalt reserves.

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  • Food Security as a Driver for Sustainable Peace in Kenya

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    From the Wilson Center  //  September 12, 2022  //  By Yiran Ning
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    “The food system is complex; it is not just about food production,” said Florence Odiwuor, a Kenyan Southern Voices for Peacebuilding Scholar, at a recent event on the role of food security systems in sustainable peacebuilding in Africa hosted by the Wilson Center’s Africa Program. As a lecturer at the School of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environmental Studies at Rongo University, Odiwour observed that given the food system’s interconnectedness with issues like education, gender, finance, and labor, “disruptions or failures in the [food] system have caused a lot of conflict in [Kenya].”

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  • Climate Security at USAID: (Re)defining an Integrative Issue

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 30, 2022  //  By Daniel Abrahams & Allison Brown

    BULENZI VILLAGE, LWABENGE SUB-COUNTY, KALUNGU DISTRICT, UGANDA: March 26, 2019 - Justine Nitele, 36, fetches water, a task that was difficult and embarassing to undertake before fistula repair surgery.  Justine is a mother of seven and a fistula survivor. Justine got fistula during a problematic labor of her fifth child. She suffered from the condition for three years. She was informed of treatment for fistula by a midwife. Justine attended Kitovu Hospital in 2014 to have treatment under the USAID Fistula Care Plus program. Justine has recovered completely and is now proudly raising awareness of fistula and its dangers as well as how to prevent it amongst the community. Photo by: Carielle Doe

    Climate security is an essential conceptual framework to understand the global interplay of biophysical and socioeconomic forces that threaten our planet. Indeed, it is so important that new currents of science, politics, and advocacy make refining definitions a necessity.

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  • Fishing for Equity and Inclusion: Women’s Socioeconomic Factors in Kenyan Fisheries

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    August 29, 2022  //  By Margaret Gatonye

    Margaret Gatonye NSB_PhotoSeeing Loreta sort and dry her Omena sardines at the shores of Lake Victoria in Western Kenya, one may dismiss this small, middle-aged woman as an ordinary fishmonger struggling to earn a living.

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  • Turning Power on its Head: A Meaningful Shift Toward Localization

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  August 10, 2022  //  By Koki Agarwal
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    Of COVID-19’s many lessons, one is most critical to our collective next steps:

    Business as usual in global health is no longer possible.

    The pandemic exposed weaknesses in health systems across the world, and particularly in the delivery of equitable, high-quality reproductive, maternal, newborn, adolescent, and child health (RMNCAH) services. It also reinforced that effectively addressing these challenges requires rapid, responsive approaches driven and owned by countries and local institutions.

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  • Confronting Seismic Shocks: New WQ Article Looks at “Russia’s War on Natural Resources”

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    July 29, 2022  //  By Claire Doyle

    Odessa,,Ukraine,-,August,9,,2021:,Loading,Grain,Into,HoldsWhen Russia struck a deal with Ukraine on July 15, there was hope that millions of tons of food would once again be able to flow from the embattled country. Under the agreement, brokered by Turkey and the UN, Russia would lift naval blockades and allow large-scale shipments of grain to leave Ukraine’s ports.                                                  

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  • Top 5 Posts for June 2022

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    What You Are Reading  //  July 18, 2022  //  By Abegail Anderson
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    From climate change to COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine, the world is a landscape of increasing instability. Book-ending the Top 5 posts of June are two articles that explore different aspects of these converging risks. In the top post for June, Steven Gale and Mat Burrows write that globally, younger generations are becoming increasingly disengaged and discontent with their democratic governments, civil society, and institutions. Youth disillusionment is not a result of ignorance to current affairs, but rather a lack of faith in democratic institutions to address today’s most pressing global issues. Tackling youth disillusionment, suggest Gale and Burrows, begins with examining youth engagement trends and placing it at the top of the agenda.

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