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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS


Foreign aid, reparations, and community investment

Dr. Christopher Stanfill, international development professional in New York, writes on how we need to rethink the lens through which foreign aid is viewed.

Fishing in Troubled Waters: Political Polarization, Disruption, and Geopolitics.

Dominican Republic: Writing in OLBIOS, Ricardo David Ruiz Cepeda analyses tribal human nature, polarized societies, widespread social irrationality and possible ways to overcome it.

Unlocking the potential of innovation for development

In her article to OLBIOS, Paola Cervo shows how international aid could play a significant role in supporting innovation for social good in developing countries

Is there hope for Haiti? Depends on who’s telling the story.

Is there hope for Haiti? Depends on who’s telling the story.

How can humanitarian aid become more effective?

Reinier Van Hoffen writes from the Netherlands on the constructive interplay between tacit knowledge and science in relation to aid effectiveness.

Change and the world changes with you

In her article for OLBIOS, Caroline Heider, an international development expert, writes on what really matters and how growth can be too much of a good thing. Aligning Incentives to Count What Matters

A dire need for Peacebuilding

We are experiencing more peace, according to the Global Peace Index But the reality around the globe tells a different story, one that makes peacebuilding necessary, writes Vahe Mirikian, OLBIOS Correspondent in USA.

The relief work that hurts and the work that really helps

Alabama, USA : Catherine Parrill, CEO of the Creative Exchanges Initiative, shares her insights at OLBIOS

Is there such thing as a "happy" country?

depending on the definition, results are surprisingly different

Surprise: development IS succeeding

Charles Kenny's book Getting Better

The answers of Gemma Mortensen

the work of Crisis Action

Let me now serve you the food of your enemy

the excellent idea of the Conflict Kitchen

Aid doesn't always aid

someone has to monitor those who help

Ambassador McGregor

the work of the actor with UNICEF

The secrets of the map

Robert Kaplan, geography and the conflicts

Forget Erasmus, follow the The Bologna Process

creating a European Higher Education Area

A woman from Syria

the fight of Razan Zaitouneh

No Fire Zone

David Miliband's intervention on Sri Lanka and a remarkable documentary

Club of Madrid, democracy that delivers?

what can 90 presidents achieve together?

A peculiar state, number 194

a film about Palestine

Alternative worlds

scheduled for 2030

The shape of the future

watch an excellent film on Israeli-Palestinian reality

Rwanda's post-genocide achievements

and the small miracles of reconciliation

Listen to the warning bells

from analysts based in over 60 countries

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