Subscribe to the CIPS Newsletter
- Home
- Blog
Blog
Reflections on a Century of Israel’s “Iron Wall”
- Analysis
- October 23, 2024
Just over a century ago, Ze’ev Jabotinski wrote two short articles which examined how the Arab population of Palestine would react to the creation of a Jewish majority there. Jabotinski led a branch of the Zionist movement, the Revisionists, who were engaged in a bitter dispute with the mainstream of Zionism over how to deal
READ MORE
“Blended Finance is not for NGOs”: Canadian Development Cooperation Organizations and the Beyond Aid Agenda
- Analysis
- October 21, 2024
Time is running out for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Donor governments, including Canada, have increasingly turned to blended finance—using public money to leverage private sector investments—to fill the financing gap and meet the SDGs. While blended finance purports to go ‘beyond aid’ in the context of shrinking aid budgets, it is becoming
READ MORE
Canada Needs a Paradigm Shift in Supporting Democracy Abroad: Leveraging Activists-in-Exile
- Analysis
- October 14, 2024
Canada has long championed human rights and democratic governance as core components of its foreign policy. Programs like the Voices at Risk guidelines reflect this commitment by supporting Human Rights Defenders (HRDs)—individuals recognised by the United Nations for their advocacy, though the term itself has limitations. While Canada provides resettlement for a limited number of HRDs, there
READ MORE
CIPS Best Blog Award 2024: Public Voting Now Open
- CIPS
- October 1, 2024
It’s time to vote for the winner of the CIPS Best Blog Award! The CIPS Best Blog Award is designed to recognize the best blog written by the CIPS community during the previous academic year. This is the fifth year that we will be giving out the award. Please cast your vote here The 2024
READ MORE
The CIPS Blog is written only by subject-matter experts.
CIPS blogs are protected by the Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)