Increasing Global Resilience: women becoming key players in peace movements
Women are doing a lot of work to create equality and peace throughout Africa, not to mention the rest of the world. What’s more, as women come together to fight for peace they cross political, religious, and tribal or clan lines that are often used as tools to perpetuate war. In Liberia Christian and Muslim women got together for the first time in the country’s history when they stood up and demanded peace. Somalia’s 6th clan is a crosscut of all clans representing all Somali women.
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Pro-Poor Foresight
Since joining IFTF I have spent a fair amount of time thinking about how forecasting can be used in development work. I have a lot of faith in the power of foresight, scenario planning, and forecasting methodologies to help us make a better, more resilient, and more just world.
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Lightweight Energy Solutions
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Dead Aid
Dambisa Moyo, a native Zambian , with a PhD in economics from Oxford University has published a very exciting book, Dead Aid. Dambisa is the first female economist who has published a book about development I have the opportunity to read. The development economics field seems to be almost 100% dominated by white Western males. Not only is Moyo female, but she is a native African. How refreshing to have an African weigh in on African issues.
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Maker Faire Africa
We here at the Ten-Year Forecast Program and IFTF have been saying the Global South is developing it’s own global voice. The Global South is becoming stronger and louder, slowly changing the way the Global North has to do business, for lack of a better analogy. Enter Africa. We usually only hear about Africa in the context of aid, disease, poverty, and war. We usually only pay attention when mega stars like Bono and Madonna get up on their soap box. Well today we are seeing very exciting things happening in Africa, by Africans. A new signal has popped up on the horizon, Ghana is hosting the very first Maker Faire Africa! If any one is able to go, it will be an exciting and inspiring event to be sure. As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of all invention. I can’t wait to see what will be coming out of Africa in the coming years.
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