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Poor Aid, Trade Policies Can Undermine Security, Say Authors of New Volume
›January 22, 2007 // By Wilson Center StaffTrade, Aid and Security: An Agenda for Peace and Development, a new edited volume arriving in bookstores next week, looks at the ways in which conflict and state failure can arise from inappropriate or misused aid and trade policies, particularly when natural resources are at stake. Richard Auty and Philippe Le Billon contribute a chapter on managing revenues from natural resources, and Ian Smillie discusses the relationship between aid and conflict.
Forward and introduction available from the International Institute for Sustainable Development. -
Sachs: Poverty Alleviation Route to Security
›January 19, 2007 // By Wilson Center StaffUrging a better understanding of the roots of instability, Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs on Wednesday said that fighting poverty will provide security benefits to the developing and the developed worlds:“Instability will grow where poverty festers in an extreme form, that’s what we’re seeing in the Horn of Africa. This isn’t a crisis about Islam, this isn’t a crisis about geopolitics, this is essentially a crisis of extreme poverty.”
He cited mosquito nets, medicine, and fertilizer as three means to improve health and livelihoods among the world’s poor. -
Caucuses Discuss Environment’s Impact on Security
›January 17, 2007 // By Wilson Center StaffRepresentatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia came together with other international partners in Georgia’s capital city of Tblisi today to discuss the impact of environmental concerns on peace in the region.
Regional cooperation may be the solution to problems such as environmental degradation and access to natural resources, according to Ambassador Roy Reeve, head of the OSCE Mission to Georgia.
The meeting is part of the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC).
