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| IDRC Bulletin ─ October 2005: Focus on the Americas |
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The Fourth Summit of the Americas takes place 4-5 November 2005 in Mar del Plata, Argentina. There, heads of state of the 34 members of the Organization of American States (OAS) and representatives from civil society, the private sector, academia, and the media will gather to analyze and discuss the challenges the Americas face in finding shared solutions and improving the quality of life of citizens. IDRC Bulletin surveys some of the research being carried out in the region.
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| News | New Governors Appointed to IDRC's Board
Robert Greenhill, President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA); Ahmed Galal, Executive Director and Director of Research at the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies; and Angela Cropper, Co-founder and President of the Cropper Foundation, have been appointed to IDRC's Board of Governors. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-89003-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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Costa Rican Model Forest in the News -- High Hopes for New "Model Forest"
Despite claiming the second-most-polluted river in Costa Rica, mountainsides where trees have given way to pesticide-heavy farms, and one of the country's most poorly funded national parks, the area surrounding the town of Turrialba has become Central America's first "model forest." | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-81335-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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IDRC Partners Win Awards for Their Work in Preventing Hunger
M.S. Swaminathan, Chairman of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, has been awarded the Chugoku Soka Gakkai’s Hiroshima Peace Award, and scientist
Modadugu Gupta has won the 2005 World Food Prize. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-87894-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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| Feature articles | Technology and Language: Learning to Say Mouse in K’iche’
Thousands of children in Guatemala’s rural highlands are using computers to learn to read and write in their native Mayan language of K’iche', thanks to a local NGO’s support of intercultural/bilingual education and educational technology. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-86346-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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Putting Guatemala's Justice System on Trial
Justice officials, human rights defenders, and experts from other Latin American countries are monitoring Guatemala’s criminal justice system for the "Justice Observatory," an IDRC-supported research project. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-67553-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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ENTRE EL PERDÓN Y EL PAREDÓN
Preguntas y dilemas de la justicia transicional
Transitional justice — or the types of judicial and out-of-court settlements that facilitate the transition from conflict to peace or from authoritarianism to democracy — is a key peacebuilding issue. This book provides national and international conceptual and regulatory frameworks, and describes, with comments, the institutional arrangements reached in different countries. It also presents detailed studies of the challenges and dilemmas of transitional justice. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-83747-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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LAND & DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA
Issues and Openings for Policy Research
Latin America, while home to a rich array of initiatives on land issues, may not yet be poised for a radical shift in land policy and administration. This book identifies four sets of issues on which fresh research could inform practice and discusses how these lines of research could feed into policy debates. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-67380-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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| Research and resources | Research on Poverty and Economic Policy: Experiences from the Field
More than 150 researchers from 40 African, Asian, and Latin American countries attended the Fourth General Meeting of the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research, 13-17 June 2005 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Read the papers presented at the conference. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-86713-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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Bridging Research and Policy in International Development
This special issue of the Journal of International Development presents papers and conclusions from the 2004 Development Studies Association conference on Bridging Research and Policy in International Development. Included is the paper « What Determines the Influence That Research Has on Policy-Making? » by IDRC President, Maureen O’Neil. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-87383-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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Educational Internet Project for Street Kids (Final Report)
The Renacer Foundation of Colombia explored the use of the Internet to help street kids and adolescents in the cities of Bogota, Cartagena, and Barranquilla reintegrate into society. This report presents the project's methodology and results. | | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-7663-201-1-DO_TOPIC |
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