Author: Lisa Schirch
Keough School of Global Affairs, March 2024
Deliberative technologies offer policymakers, think tanks, tech companies, and civil society new paths to stem the tide of democratic backsliding. This brief recommends using deliberative technologies to: Foster more robust civic engagement Build trust in public institutions by aligning governance with public will Improve...
Topics: Governance, Policy
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
Authors: David Cortright, Anna Romandash
Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2024
In response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, developed democracies have imposed thousands of restrictions on Russian energy exports, international financing, and imports of weapons and military-related technology, with the goal of reducing state revenues and constraining the capacity for continued war. The sanctions have...
Topics: Peacebuilding, Policy
Author: Barbara Durr
Keough School of Global Affairs, April 2023
Between 2013 and 2016, Oxfam waged an ambitious campaign to challenge the world’s top 10 food and beverage companies to change the social, ethical, and environmental sourcing in their global supply chains. The campaign bargained on the large, branded companies’ susceptibility to consumer pressure,...
Topics: Culture & Society
Authors: Benjamin Davis, Leslie Lipper, Paul Winters
Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2022
Much current thinking on food system transformation focuses on the global level and often prioritizes the planet over the poor. Transformative approaches that seek to achieve better nutritional and environmental outcomes without consideration of how proposed changes affect the potential for inclusive growth could...
Topics: Policy, Sustainability
Authors: Camila Fernández, Larissa Campuzano, Ivonne Padilla, Nancy Murray, Danice Guzmán
Pulte Institute for Global Development, Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2022
While there has been remarkable progress in achieving Sustainable Development Goal #4 of inclusive and equitable quality education, important deficits in learning and access to education remain for disadvantaged and marginalized populations in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries. Low- and middle-income countries...
Topics: Education, Policy
Authors: Sara Gaviser Leslie, Barbara Durr
Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2022
Oxfam, the international nongovernmental organization, was rocked by press revelations in 2018 of sexual misconduct in its 2011 Haiti humanitarian operations following the devasting earthquake there. The scandal, which occurred amid a crescendo of the #MeToo movement, challenged the new leader of Oxfam’s American...
Topics: Governance, Policy
Authors: Steve Reifenberg, Luke Maillie, Molly Kuehn, Jens Henrik Munthe-Kaas, Matthew Weyenberg
Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2022
The case, Improving Surgical Care in Zambia: Building a National Plan, examines how the government of Zambia developed the first in the world National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anaesthesia Plan (NSOAP) from 2015-2017. The Zambian government incorporated recommendations from the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery...
Topics: Health, Policy
Author: Maria José Daza Bohorquez
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, January 2022
The Peace Agreement signed between the Government of Colombia and the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) in November 2016 has been recognized as one of the most comprehensive peace agreements signed following civil conflict. According to the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,...
Topics: Culture & Society, Peacebuilding
Authors: Jason Quinn, Sally Sharif
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, January 2022
Armed conflict recurrence among signatories of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) is not nearly as common a phenomenon as many believe. Despite the oft-noted claim that most peace agreements fail, three out of four CPAs were successful at maintaining peace among the signatories. When...
Authors: Madhav Joshi, Ana Mercedes Sánchez-Ramírez
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, January 2022
As of December 2019, nineteen out of thirty-five countries with at least one active armed conflict had more than one active armed group. In the Western Hemisphere, Colombia has been the only country to experience more than one armed conflict for over half a...
Topics: Peacebuilding
Author: Sally Sharif
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, January 2022
Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) programs have become an essential part of peace processes, sometimes constituting an important piece of peace negotiations and peace agreements. They generally aim at disbanding rebel wartime structures for the purpose of peace. However, when dealing with rebel groups...
Topics: Peacebuilding, 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: Ivonne Zúñiga, Elise Ditta, Patrick McQuestion
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, January 2022
Comprehensive Peace Agreements (CPAs) have been translated into public policy through many mechanisms, including implementation timelines, legislative reforms, new institutions, and peace policy plans. The 2016 Colombian Peace Agreement stipulates all these mechanisms, in addition to including an extensive peace policy document, the Framework...
Topics: Peacebuilding, Policy
