Project Support Officer

Salary: £29,098 per annum (more for an exceptional candidate), plus excellent benefits

Contract Duration:  12 months, with potential for extension pending funding

Based:…

Elizabeth Barrett

United States

“On any given day, new people are born into varied circumstances all around the world. They may arrive into a poor family in Yemen or a wealthy one in Manhattan - through no intention of their own.”

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Bay Area writer Michael Lewis’s recent Princeton commencement address has…

The Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS), an autonomous unit within Addis Ababa University, seeks to expand its team with qualified professionals for various fixed term and consultancy positions in its Africa Peace and Security Programme (APSP), a joint initiative with the African Union Commission. The mission of IPSS is to support the African Union, RECs and other African institutions in the design and development of “African-led solutions” in peace and…

Dear Colleagues

A reminder that PCDN is the largest site focused on peace and development issues and an ideal resource for recruiting candidates for openings. Many leading organizations and companies around the world are posting their openings on the network and having tremendous results. Please see the general information below. We would appreciate if you could forward this to your colleagues/human resources…

Thankfully, the “expertise infusion” aid model is currently being transformed. Aid funders tend to think too much about the supply side of development, and very little about where the demand is coming from. More and more international actors are focusing on building their own skills to accompany, support, and relate more effectively to local institutions and organizations, rather than overpower or co-opt them.…

Which citizen participation/problem solving process has the better cost/benefit ratio for problem solving on a scale most of us have never known before?

Introduction

We live in a time of unprecedented opportunities, in many ways created by the expansion of the Internet, and by electronic devices, communication satellites, etc which make it possible for information, knowledge and wisdom to be passed quickly to a broad range of international…

XXVII Black International Cinema Berlin 2012

Long-haul international flights are a great opportunity to catch up on action adventure movies I’d never bother seeing in the U.S. On my flight from Johannesburg on Friday night, I watched In Time, a Justin Timberlake as Robin Hood sci-fi film in which time replaces money as the world’s currency and presents just as many challenges to the have and have-nots.

This got me thinking about the currencies of international aid. On this trip,…

Sectors of society come together for the launch of Whole Earth? and discuss strategies to address climate change ahead of the Rio+20 Climate Change Summit in June.

On 21st May 2012 in the magnificent St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, over 500 people from all sectors of society joined the Environmental Audit Committee in a public debate on how to work towards a sustainable, green economy.

The event, which also launched photographer Mark Edwards’s latest project…

http://www.saint-claire.org/mission_resources.html

History is full of stories of harm done by people in the name of religion. Some people, therefore, see religion as constituting the gravest problem of humanity. They think of it as an obstacle to development, depriving people of freedom, and making them irresponsible by setting their minds on some heaven or after-life when they could take charge of their lives and bring about any required personal and societal change.  

If this is true, then religion is a curse. If it is true that…

Many individuals around the world are interested in doing graduate work in Peace and Conflict Resolution at the MA or Ph.D. level. This guide is focused solely on Ph.D. level programs. If you're interested in MA level programs, please consult the MA guide.



Several colleagues at Eastern Mennonite University, in their Conflict Transformation…

Last weekend, Initiatives of Change Kenya came together for a two-day meeting in Nakuru. There, they discussed Clean Elections Campaign (CEC). This meeting was necessary to discuss the planning and approach of this year's CEC. The goal of which is to help steer the country towards peaceful elections and to avoid a repeat of the 2007/2008 post-elections violence.

On December 27, 2007 violence broke out over contested election results. This lasted until late February 2008. The violence…

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We have formed a page on Facebook as an outreach effort to create a global forum of scholars and like-minded people who think about one of the biggest pandemics of 21st century i.e. HIV/AIDS. This is a Forum for Networking and  Collaboration for sharing of increasing frontiers of Knowledge in the areas of HIV/AIDS, Drug & Alcohol Abuse, LGBTQI, Women and Children and Risk, and overall Public health concerns in the…

(I wrote this last Sunday, but due to an Internet outage the past few days, I haven’t been able to post)

                One of the most important things for people who want to do good in other countries have to remember is that there have been people living in the area long before you showed up. Too often NGOs from wealthy states show up in the developing country acting as though they are first to try and help, as though the people there live brutish, uncivilized lives…

Text to Change’s Chief Technology Officer, Marcus Wagenaar, sat down with me yesterday to discuss new projects on the horizon and innovations in the mHealth field.  …

IPSI's Peace & Security Report (PSR) is a concise weekly e-publication intended to brief busy students, academics, advocates, and practitioners in the conflict management community on pertinent global news, events, and trends.  Meticulously researched and written by IPSI, the PSR empowers us all to take a step back from our immediate deadlines each Friday and gain a greater understanding of the week's global events.…