Author: Barbara Durr
Keough School of Global Affairs, March 2024
Between 2015 and 2017, Oxfam, the international social justice organization, waged a campaign against the US poultry industry to seek better wages, healthy and safe working conditions, and worker voice for poultry processing workers. These workers, predominantly women and almost all people of color,...
Topics: Business & Economics, Civil & Human Rights, Culture & Society
Author: Nilofar Sakhi
Pulte Institute for Global Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, November 2022
This policy brief is about a people-centered approach to development and human security in Afghanistan. It stresses the need for development programs to be inclusive, with contributions and ownership from people in the local communities and private sectors, to promote a new discourse and...
Topics: Civil & Human Rights, Policy
Author: Barbara Durr
Keough School of Global Affairs, October 2022
In 2008, Oxfam staff envisioned a new approach to address the poverty wages and harsh conditions of farmworkers, one of the most mistreated workforces in the United States. Oxfam created a multi-stakeholder initiative, bringing together for the first time all the key players in...
Topics: Civil & Human Rights, Culture & Society, Policy
Authors: Isabel Güiza-Gómez, Jason Quinn, Josefina Echavarría Alvarez
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, January 2022
Responding to crimes committed during armed conflict often presents a challenge for negotiators and peacemakers. This brief outlines how International Humanitarian Law (IHL) can provide a framework during negotiations for peace and can later facilitate implementation of peace agreements. IHL is a set of...
Topics: Civil & Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Policy
Authors: Diane Desierto, Fidelis Olokunboro
Pulte Institute for Global Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, November 2021
It is a continuing paradox in 2021 that Nigeria is a country of vast natural resources and energy reserves, Africa’s largest oil producer, and a powerful member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), yet poverty and inequality remain extremely rampant. Forty percent...
Topics: Business & Economics, Civil & Human Rights, Governance, Policy
Author: Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
Kellogg Institute, May 2021
Despite the formal end of civil war and armed conflict, Mexico continued to experience significant levels of violence during the 1930s and 1940s. This period has traditionally been associated with the process of pacification, institutionalization, and centralization of power that enabled the consolidation of...
Topics: Civil & Human Rights
Authors: Verónica Zubillaga, Rebecca Hanson
Kellogg Institute, December 2020
How do mothers deal with chronic violence and the constant presence of guns in their neighborhoods? How do they relate to the armed actors who inhabit their neighborhoods? How do they build situated meaning and discursive practices out of their experiences and relationships with...
Topics: Civil & Human Rights, Gender
Author: Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
Kellogg Institute, May 2020
This paper studies the determinants of income inequality in Latin America over the long run, comparing them with explanations of why the whole region is unequal. I first show how land inequality can account for differences between Latin America and other parts of the...
Topics: Civil & Human Rights
