Events
Our Shared Future: Environmental Pathways to Peace
This report draws from the dialogue and seminar papers shared at a January 2010 meeting co-hosted by the Wilson Center and the Fetzer Institute to explore the affect of globalization on natural resource issues such as water on local, national, and international levels. Examining the effect of environmental peacebuilding on communities, the discussion explored how governments, NGOs, the private sector, and other interested parties can generate positive outcomes while minimizing negative ones.
Defining Community in the Age of Globalization
Paper contribution to January 2010 seminar on environmental peacebuilding.
Interwoven Problems Need Integrated Solutions
Paper contribution to January 2010 seminar on environmental peacebuilding.
Democratic Governance and Urban Sustainability
In these proceedings, scholars review a more than ten-year debate on urban governance in the context of unprecedented population growth in the cities of the developing world. Contributors examine the growth of civil society and the role of women in relation to urban governance, the networks necessary to create healthy cities and the future of urban form. Additionally, this report confronts the relationships between decentralization, privatization, regional planning, and governance.
Two Tales: One Story
Paper contribution to the April 2011 seminar on post-disaster community engagement.
Yet Another Transition? Urbanization, Class Formation, and the End of the National Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; 1999. (Comparative Urban Studies Occasional Series; 24). PDF: 153KB, 31 pages
Removing Barriers to Land Security in Haiti
Semi-finalist paper contribution to the second annual academic paper competition co-sponsored by the Wilson Center's Comparative Urban Studies Project, USAID's Urban Programs Team, the International Housing Coalition, Cities Alliance, and the World Bank.
Race, Class and the Political Mobilization of the Poor: Ghettos in New York and Favelas in Rio de Janeiro
Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; 1997. (Comparative Urban Studies Occasional Paper Series; 8)