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A UN Architecture to Build Peace in Post-Conflict Situations

Otobo, Ejeviome Eloho - In: Development Outreach 11 (2009) 2, pp. 46-49

The UN Peacebuilding Commission recent undertook a review process and is now focusing on a new strategy that highlights the need to strengthen the link between security and development.

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Windmills in cyberspace

Hirsch, Peter Buell - In: Journal of Business Strategy 38 (2017) 3, pp. 48-51

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to stimulate an urgent dialogue about the impact of automated opinion engines (“bots”) on the functioning of public institutions in democratic societies. While the use of political bots may or may not have influenced the recent US presidential election or...

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A Worldwide Pact for Security and Accountability in Fragile "Bottom Billion" States

Collier, Paul - In: Development Outreach 11 (2009) 2, pp. 10-12

If security and accountability are critical public goods for development, and if the countries of the bottom billion are structurally unable to supply them internally, then some form of international supply is necessary.

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Human rights, accounting, and the dialectic of equality and inequality

Li, Yingru; McKernan, John - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 29 (2016) 4, pp. 568-593

, human rights, and democracy. …

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The vulnerability of democracies

Lapshina, Ekaterina - In: Foresight 6 (2004) 4, pp. 218-222

Democracy, because of its complex structure and basic nature, is a challenge as the struggle for consensus and … life, exist continuously. Despite its vulnerabilities, democracy is also a promise for the values it upholds and promotes …, for its adaptability and for the freedoms it offers. However, each “democracy” needs to be custom made for a specific …

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Democracy and human rights: Reappraising the rhetoric of “interdependence and mutual reinforcement”

Effeh, Ubong E. - In: Journal of International Trade Law and Policy 6 (2007) 2, pp. 91-98

The relationship between democracy and civil and political rights is often assumed to be self‐evident. What is often … less obvious is that between democracy and economic and social rights. The emergence of China and India (two countries with … democracy and both human rights categories. This short article is thus an attempt at assessing the strength of these …

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What If We're Not Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) : The Opportunties Ahead For International Development NGOs

Glenzer, Kent - In: Development Outreach 13 (2011) 1, pp. 16-19

International development NGOs (IDNGOs) have both flourished and been objects of cogent critique over the past twenty years. The populations and budgets of IDNGOs continue to grow even as concerns about accountability, quality, and cost persist. Meanwhile, major inroads have been made on...

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Managing indigenous relations : Corporate social responsibility and corporate communication in a new age of activism

Evuleocha, Stevina U. - In: Corporate Communications: An International Journal 10 (2005) 4, pp. 328-340

responsibility (CSR) through activism, and how oil companies in Nigeria are responding to this development. Design … vision of social change; Nigeria lacks legislation compelling oil companies to contribute to the development of their host …

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Establishing liability for multinational corporations: lessons from Akpan

James McConnell, Lee - In: International Journal of Law and Management 56 (2014) 2, pp. 88-104

case concerning environmental damage in Nigeria as a vehicle to discuss parent/subsidiary liability. Findings – The article …

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Amba, Keteh - In: Journal of Place Management and Development 3 (2010) 2, pp. 149-159

, Nigeria was not taken into consideration during the forced evictions that took place between 2003 and 2007. The aim of this …

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