Advocacy

Land and minerals - resources for peace?

International Alert's Peace Talks event provides "glimpses of a better future" for DRC

International Alert, in partnership with the School of Global Studies at Sussex University and the Royal Commonwealth Society, held the fifth in its series of Peace Talks events, which was on the subject of "Congolese prospects. Land and minerals – resources for peace?" in London on 12 June.

Watch the discussion here:

Julia Karlysheva

jkarlysheva@international-alert.org

Thu, 27/06/2013

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Working with the Grain to Change the Grain

Moving beyond the Millennium Development Goals

Phil Vernon

Deborrah Baksh

September, 2010

International Alert

52 pages

London, UK

978-1-906677-65-7

A UN Summit in September will review progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. It will find that they are not going to be met by 2015 as planned. But rather than push for an “MDG Rescue Plan” as some are proposing, it is time to ask some hard questions about how societies change, and what we really mean by "development".

This report proposes a new model for defining and measuring development progress, and makes practical recommendations about how aid can become more effective in promoting, supporting and enabling human progress, especially in so-called fragile states.