• Syrian Refugees and Canada’s “Defining Moment”: One Year On

    Syrian Refugees and Canada’s “Defining Moment”: One Year On

    By Elke Winter, Benjamin Zyla, Charlotte Murret-Labarthe University of Ottawa Origins of the crisis In March 2011, three months after the Arab Spring began in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, fifteen Syrian schoolchildren were arrested and tortured for writing on a wall the anti-regime slogan: “The people want the overthrow of the regime.” This event sparked

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  • Whatever Happened to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda?

    Whatever Happened to the Aid Effectiveness Agenda?

    In the early 2000s, Western donors finally recognized that they were partly to blame for foreign aid’s often disappointing results. The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, adopted in 2005, was the result of that soul-searching. The Declaration was based on five core principles, including recipient countries’ ownership of their poverty reduction strategies, donors’ alignment with

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