Peace and Security

Dear All,

I hope you are well. The World Food Programme's Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch is looking for a Conflict Analyst to join the Analysis and Early Warning unit. For details please see the position Terms of Reference below and attached.

Grateful if you could forward this message to any promising candidates you may know, and circulate within appropriate networks.

Please see for details:

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David Carment
Professor of International Affairs,
CDFAI Fellow and Editor - Canadian Foreign Policy Journal
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David Carment, Editor of the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, is pleased to announce the release of a special issue on "Making Canada Relevant Again: International Mediation in a Fragile World."

The focus of this special issue, co-edited with Guest Editor Evan Hoffman, is to highlight ways in which Canada can draw on successful examples of mediation and translate them into effective policy.

Dear All,

I had the pleasure of co-authoring this new IPI publication on Conflict
Prevention and welcome intelligent, constructive feedback:

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Thank you,
Patrick

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Dr. Patrick Meier
Director of Innovation
Qatar Foundation - QCRI

Dear All,

Perhaps of interest, a project on the use of mobile advertising for
violence prevention:

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Thanks,
Patrick

backatcha

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Prediction of Intrastate Conflict Using State Structural Factors and
Events Data

David Carment
Professor of International Affairs,
CDFAI Fellow and Editor - Canadian Foreign Policy Journal

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willful blindness? - or perhaps something more?
do you mean
bill clinton's response to genocide in rwanda- " I don't want to
know about it"

or perhaps Susan Rice's - 'what will be the effect on elections in congress"?

or maybe our unwillingness to recognise pakistan as a destructive

Dear David,

I think we mean quite similar if not the same things.  In legal terms,
we tend to use notions of "attribution", "responsibility", and
"liability" or "culpability" (for crimes).  It's basically the matter
of drawing/establishing connections ("tracing", as you say).  Yes,
"doing and saying nothing" are "acts of omission" with equal

John
I was thinking more along the lines of moral hazard - everything
from aiding and arming rebels groups and states engaged in atrocities
and attacking unarmed civilians to providing air cover and covert
support to armed groups engaged in toppling governments (and
committing atrocities while they do so) to providing humanitarian

Nice to see your work advancing, Patrick.

Just to echo David and Helene, with whom I fully concur, I would
suggest that fuller grasp of well-established notions such as agency,
dependency, clientalism, etc. would, together with existing information
(from popular media, twitter, etc.), yield sufficient evidence which,

Thanks Patrick and I fully echo David! Furthermore, as David has pointed in
many of his articles on early warning, trying to understand and then
monitor dynamics and underlying processes would be huge step forward
towards warning and prevention... hopefully this will be integrated - and
favoured - rather than too heavy a focus on high tech, with the hope that

Thanks Patrick - in some respects this is quite bizarre though I
understand the rationale by which it is being proposed.

Almost every night our TVs are flooded by first hand visual accounts
of atrocities committed by state and non state actors - in the Middle
East and around the globe.

FYI

Kevin WYJAD
UN World Food Programme
Mobile: +39 346 341 7535
Skype: kjwyjad

Sent: 22 November 2012 08:38
To: preventing-conflict

Hi All, submissions for the first part of this challenge closes on Nov 29th.

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