Development and
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In brief

Education

Disrupted schooling

According to UNICEF, hundreds of millions of children and teenager lost access to educatin due to Covid-19 lockdowns

Private-sector banks

No money for coal

Study demonstrates that private-sector banks are acting with "extreme irresponsibility" in relation to the climate crisis

Civil wars

Children in terrorist organisations

Book analyses how terrorist organisations recruit children for their cause

Syria

Difficult reconstruction

Reconstruction in Syria - challenges and possible courses of action

Governance

Suppressing dissenters during lockdown

Western embassies urge Zimbabwe’s government not to use Covid-19 as a cover for breaching human rights

Dysfunctional policy

Under-performing ODA darling

Despite under-performing governance, Kenya is still a donor darling

Participation

Valuable resource

New book about participatory methods in development projects has the makings of a standard

Infrastructure projects

Paying the price for development

When people are displaced to make room for large-scale development projects, the trauma and impoverishment are real and long-lasting

Global Governance

Self-perpetuating cycles of violence

Joint UN and World Bank study on international cooperation in conflict prevention

Conflict transformation

Collective trauma

Violent conflicts can lead to the traumatisation of entire communities

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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.