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CAR’s Peace Accords and Rebel Warlords
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- May 17, 2019
By Gino Vlavonou After ten years in power, in 2013, Séléka rebels ousted the Central African Republic’s (CAR) President François Bozizé, after which Anti-Balaka militia groups rose up in response. The country has since been searching for peace, and seven efforts to resolve the conflict have failed. The latest peace accord was signed on 6
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Dawn of a New Era: Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s Visit to Ottawa
- Analysis
- May 13, 2019
A new era is dawning in Japan. With the abdication of Emperor Akihito on 30 April and the ascension of his Crown Prince Naruhito to the Chrysanthemum Throne on 1 May, calendars will change from the 31st year of the Heisei (平成) to the 1st year of the Reiwa (令和). The new era name breaks
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Conceptualising Markets
- Analysis
- May 11, 2019
By Pascale Massot and Julian Gruin Markets are ubiquitous in contemporary everyday life and society as well as central features of the global economy. Markets have political, economic, social, and cultural origins, as well as consequences. But in the public sphere, we usually operate with a conceptually impoverished account of what markets are and how
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Is the Sky the Limit? Risk, Uncertainty, and Nature
- Analysis
- May 11, 2019
By Sylvain Maechler The Living Planet Report 2018, published by the World Wild Fund for Nature in collaboration with the research division of the Zoological Society of London, recently valued nature at an estimated US$125 trillion. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the self-proclaimed international standard setter bringing public and private actors together, is currently
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