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South Africa After Mandela: No Easy Walk to Freedom
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- December 8, 2013
The day Nelson Mandela died, I was boarding a flight to Nairobi. Seeing my itinerary, a member of the airport staff commented off-handedly, “Africa—why are there always so many problems there?” “Perhaps we just hear more about the problems, and not the good things,” I said. “Think about Mandela.” Immediately, her face lit up with
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A Dignified Warrior for Peace: Nelson Mandela
- Analysis
- December 8, 2013
By Joanne St. Lewis, Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa My heart is heavy. The braided life of pain, joy, courage, strength and love – indeed, all that was the brilliant complex persona of Nelson Mandela is no more. Mandela is the most significant public intellectual of my lifetime. He spoke to the
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Is Canada a Responsible Global Partner?
- Analysis
- December 4, 2013
In anticipation of the December 5th book launch of the Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, CIPS posed the following question to former Prime Minister Paul Martin (who will be speaking at the event): “What does the recently announced DFATD Global Markets Action Plan mean for Canadian diplomacy?” Below is Mr. Martin’s reply. It is absurd
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Poverty, Inequality and Inclusiveness: Which Comes First?
- Analysis
- December 3, 2013
These overlapping concepts together frame what many define as one of the principal challenges of modern society in both developing and developed countries. They have recently come to focus for two distinct reasons. The global financial crisis has exposed new vulnerabilities in supposedly developed societies such as Greece and Spain, even the USA. These vulnerabilities
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