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  • ‘The Crisis’ and the Crises of Global Capitalism - Challenges for, and Alternatives from 'The South’
    Dot Keet
    Paper

    Alternative socieconomic strategies implemented by countries and peoples of the South could serve as a model for global alternatives to the globalised capitalism.

  • The Statistics Bazaar
    Ricardo Vargas
    Briefing

    The drugs scene in Colombia is characterized by the fact that it is dominated by a confusion of insufficiently supported statistics and speculative diagnoses which produce policies that reflect this chaos.

  • Prohibition, a backwards step
    Diana Esther Guzmán, Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes
    Briefing

    In December 2009, the Congress in Colombia passed a constitutional reform that prohibits the consumption and possession of certain quantities of drugs for personal use, that had previously been legal in the 1991 Constitution. This regressive step is unlikely to reduce consumption and will probably increase overcrowding which plague some of the country’s major prison centres

  • The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity
    Report

    Neoliberal market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which
    threatens human civilisation. Climate destruction, resource wars, and
    the replacement of democracy by an oligarchy face us if we don't act
    now to reduce the burden we place on our planet and reorganise society
    on a more egalitarian  basis.

  • Countering illicit and unregulated money flows
    Tom Blickman
    Briefing

    Since its beginnings in 1989, the international anti-money laundering regime has not worked as well as intended. After two decades of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement one that does work. A bolder initiative is required at the United Nations level, moving from recommendations to obligations, and fully engaging developing nations.

  • Civil Society in European-Chinese Relations
    Book

    In the context of the current state of European-Chinese relations and the limited influence of European NGOs on EU policies, this book discusses the challenges and dilemmas of co-operation between European and Chinese civil society organisations.

  • Contemporary discourses and contestations around pro-poor land policies and land governance
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras
    Paper

    The concern for ‘pro-poor’ land policy has coincided with the mainstream promotion of efficient administration of land policies, leading to the concept of ‘land governance’. This paper aims at better understanding of contemporary policy discourses and political contestations around land and land governance.

  • The security approach to the drugs problem
    Ricardo Vargas
    Briefing

    The drugs problem in Colombia is intertwined with structural factors at the social, economic, institutional and cultural levels. Moreover, its relationship to the armed conflict has had serious consequences for the socio-economic conditions of peasant and indigenous communities affected by the production of raw materials used to produce cocaine.

  • Upsetting the Offset
    Joanna Cabello
    Kevin Smith
    Tamra Gilbertson
    Walden Bello
    Book

    The book contributes to a growing field of critics of carbon markets by highlighting several up-to-date examples of where the system has failed and often led to negative social, economic and environmental impacts in deprived countries.

  • Das Friedensgutachten 2009
    Jochen Hippler
     Christiane Fröhlich, Margerte Johannsen, Bruno Schoch, Adreas Heinemann-Grüder
    Book

    Das Friedensgutachten ist das gemeinsame Jahrbuch der fünf Institute für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung  in  der  Bundesrepublik. Das Friedensgutachten 2009 stellt Möglichkeiten, Wege und Grenzen, Kriege und Gewaltkonflikte zu beenden,  in  seinen  Mittelpunkt.

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