'Are you happy? provides a thumbnail guide to the history of new economics and the current work of the new economics foundation. It asks the biggest question facing humanity - do good lives have to cost the earth? - and finds that the answer lies in a new type of economics, economics as if people and the planet mattered.'
This is a New Economics Foundation's (nef's) paper, published in November 2006. PDF format, 31 pp. In English

This article by Peter Svedberg, which got published in the Little Magazine provides a cursory look at the situation of hunger in India. It talks about malnutrition, undernutrition etal.

The Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group of Peacebuild and Oxfam Canada held a two-day workshop in January 2008, to examine the state of gender training in the context of security and fragile states.

The participants represented staff from national and international machineries and non-governmental organizations, as well as consultants.

The workshop highlighted the need for improved monitoring and evaluation, organisational learning and knowledge management around gender training and how more...

Economic recovery following conflict can be an extremely difficult challenge, yet it is a critical aspect of a country’s ability to attain stability and lasting peace by creating jobs and rebuilding livelihoods. This program, to be held October 26–29, 2008, in Monterey, CA, will explore the challenges of economic recovery in complex environments. Best practices in use by the various response communities will be discussed and evaluated for their applicability in a variety of situations.

For most young people, a life living under occupation is unimaginable. For the young people of Palestine, it is a daily reality. World YWCA advocacy intern, Leanne Baumung will take part in the Journey for Justice to express solidarity with Palestinian youth by travelling to Palestinian territories to experience a glimpse of what life is like for young people living under occupation.

The Journey for Justice is an annual programme organised and hosted by the Joint Advocacy Initiative of the YW more...

The literature on aid has come a long way in recent years, and as a result we now know much more about aid effectiveness than possibly ever before. But significant gaps in knowledge remain. One such gap is the effectiveness of aid in the so-called ‘fragile states’, countries with critically low policy and institutional performance ratings. The current paper addresses this void by examining possible links between aid and economic growth in fragile states. It finds that: (i) growth would have more...

This new GTZ discussion paper by Axel Mierke examines the potential that SED/PSD interventions have in contributing to conflict prevention and peace building. The paper is based on desk research, discussions with practitioners and three case studies. Practical experiences extracted from case studies and other reports illustrate the findings. The Annex provides details on the case studies of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo and Afghanistan.

CPDC is the international forum that brings together conflict prevention and peace-building experts from bilateral and multilateral development agencies, including from the UN system, EC, IMF and World Bank. These experts meet to define and develop common approaches in support of peace. The CPDC is a subsidiary group of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC).

According to a new report from the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), fragile states pose some of the toughest development challenges. Concern is growing about the ability of these countries to reach the Millennium Development Goals, as well as the adverse economic effects they have on neighboring countries and the global spillovers that may follow. In "Engaging with Fragile States: An IEG Review of World Bank Support for Low-Income Countries under Stress (LICUS)," IEG notes that dur more...

"Our focus is grass roots peacebuilding in areas of conflict across the world. We fund it; we promote it to government and media; and we learn from it.
We promote the work of grass roots peacebuilding overseas and in the UK. We also promote alternatives to the use of force."