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Amid Negotiations, Future of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan Still Uncertain

03.08.2019

On February 28, over 700 Afghan women traveled from across the country to Kabul to take a stand for preserving women’s rights during ongoing peace negotiations between the United States and the Taliban. Gathered at a conference, women made their demands clear: there could be no peace without wome...

Democracy That Delivers #145: Devolution and Democracy in Kenya, with James Muraguri of IPFK

02.19.2019 |

In this Democracy That Delivers podcast, James Muraguri, CEO of the Institute of Public Finance Kenya (IPFK), is joined by Lars Benson, Regional Director for Africa, and host Ken Jaques. IPFK is a current CIPE partner working on budget analysis and budget participation. This is a critical to...

Elections and Democracy in Nigeria

02.13.2019

The following is part 1 of a 3 part series by Ryan Musser about Nigeria’s elections postponed to Saturday, February 23, 2019. This Saturday, the most populous country and largest economy in Africa heads to the polls for national elections in Nigeria. According to Jibrin Ibrahim of the Centre ...

Democracy That Delivers #143: The State of Democracy with Clay Fuller

02.05.2019 |

There seems to be a perception that democracy is on a decline, but Clay Fuller, a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute feels this is incorrect. Democracy is not in crisis, instead, we have changed how we see and define it. In short, democracy is the game of rule, while auto...

Democracy That Delivers #141: The Belt and Road Initiative’s Impact on Chinese Corrosive Capital

01.23.2019 |

Many observers believe that China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a vast, well-laid and finely orchestrated plan to extend Chinese hegemony over much of the developing world. However, some argue that the BRI is just a vision, not a coordinated plan. Andrew Davenport, Chief Operating Officer ...

Democracy That Delivers #140: Promoting Sustainable Economic Reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina

01.15.2019 |

Darko Brkan, founding President of Zašto ne, joins host Ken Jaques and Regional Director for Europe and Eurasia Natalia Otel Belan in a timely discussion on the current political and economic landscape in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and what some of the greatest barriers to progress are. Brkan shares...

The Power of Local Ownership in Countering Violent Extremism in the Sahel

01.11.2019

The United Nations Security Council is reviewing new concerns about security and terrorism in the Sahel, and the region is a key focus of the United States’ new Africa strategy announced by Ambassador John Bolton in December. Bolton underscored the link between the stagnation of economic progress...

Iran’s Water Crisis Hurts More Than Agriculture: Implications for Security, Stability, and the Economy

12.13.2018

Iran is one of many countries experiencing environmental degradation. Suffering from exponential desertification and a water crisis, the country’s political and economic stability could be jeopardized in the long term by climate change. Drought, resource scarcity, and poor water governance threat...

Sustainability of Peace in Colombia Depends on Responsible Business Investment

12.07.2018

In the two years since Colombia’s Congress ratified a peace treaty between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), thereby ending the longest-running insurgency in Latin America, some positive signs have emerged. Thousands of FARC members have turned in their arms. So...

OpEd: The Biggest Threat to Democracy No One is Talking About

11.21.2018

This Op-Ed originally appeared in The Diplomatic Courier. A tide of corrosive capital has swept the world over the past decade. Public and private money from authoritarian states has been flowing into fragile democracies and emerging markets. Like water flowing through cracked concrete, many ...