BY REUBEN E. BRIGETY, II It isn’t every day that I find myself in northern Kenya visiting a camp with 150,000 Somali refugees, or hearing an American soldier talk about the strategic importance of vaccinating sheep in Djibouti as part of the Global War on Terror. But neither is it every day that, as a [...]
BY DAWN C. PARKER WITH MACTION KOMWA Although HIV/AIDS has no boundaries, the most affected region is sub-Saharan Africa, where 25 of the 40 million people globally living with the virus live. The epidemic has eroded the ability of rural African households to produce food and other agricultural products, generate income, and care for and [...]
BY LISA PAWLOSKI Adolescent girls in developing countries are often considered a nutritionally at-risk group. Nutritional anthropologists study the impact of nutrition on adolescent growth and development and the sociocultural factors which influence nutritional status. Ten years ago, I examined the nutritional status of adolescent girls living in Mali, West Africa, and found them to [...]
BY CURTISS SWEZY Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have long played a key role in providing health care in the US. Originally referred to as PVOs, or private voluntary organizations, these charitable hospitals and inner city resettlement homes provided some of the first health and social safety net care for remote and disenfranchised populations from the western [...]
BY ERIC MCGLINCHEY Some efforts of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in the former Soviet Union have proven more successful than others. Why do some assistance schemes pursued by USAID’s two central political party assistance implementers, the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) yield positive results while other strategies [...]
BY AGNIESZKA PACZYNSKA As the victorious great powers surveyed the devastation brought on by World War II and faced the crumbling of old colonial empires two issues came to dominate the international agenda: the reconstruction of countries devastated by the war and the economic and political development of the newly independent states of Africa and Asia. [...]
BY VANDY KANYAKO JR. The Africa Working Group (AWG) at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) is an association of academic practitioners, activists, and students interested in fostering an in-depth understanding of contemporary Africa’s position in the global community. The working group was founded in the early 1990s by ICAR students and faculty as [...]
BY JENNIFER M. BRINKERHOFF The big dilemma this summer was who to root for in the World Cup Games. Like the famous “cricket test” in Britain (cited by Amartya Sen in his new book, Identity and Violence), choosing a team is supposed to be an indication of one’s identity and loyalty. But does that mean [...]
BY DANIELE ARCHIBUGI The two main wars that opened the third millennium, those in Afghanistan and Iraq, have been justified by the United States (US) and its allies with a mixture of arguments. The first, and perhaps foremost, has been self-defense: to eradicate the terrorist roots in Afghanistan and destroy the alleged weapons of mass [...]
BY CHRIS COYNE Among many other problems, the current U.S. occupation of Iraq suffers from a problem of incentive misalignment. From the beginning of the occupation, the United States made very clear its firm commitment to stay the course. This provided a disincentive to members of the Iraqi populace as well as to Iraq’s neighbors [...]