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Religion
and Peacebuilding
Drs Gordon Smith and Harold Coward co-edited this new publication
now available from SUNY
PRESS. Religion and Peacebuilding acknowleges
that religion can motivate both violence and compassion, this
book looks at how a variety of world religions can and do build
peace.
Follow this link for more content and online ordering
details. Religion
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The
Centre for Global Studies Annual
Report 2002-03
is now available in PDF format.
2001-
02 Annual Report
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Rethinking
Governance Handbook
An inventory of best practices and innovative approaches to
increase transparency, participation and accountability in global
institutions.
"Its overview of best practices that international
organizations might consider in striving to improve their governance
gives us much useful food for thought. We are continually seeking
to improve our relations and dialogue both with our country
authorities and increasingly with civil society and non-governmental
organizations. We will draw upon your handbook for new ideas
in this important endeavor. Your handbook contains several examples
of innovative and practical initiatives by other institutions
to which we will give careful consideration. Some of these,
for instance, could better facilitate consultation with NGOs
and their participation in our activities." Horst Kohler, Managing
Director, International Monetary Fund.
This handbook has been generously supported
by the Ford
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In Altered
States, Gordon Smith and Moises Niam explore the dynamics
of globalization and discuss what makes today's globalization
distinct. They test the prevailing wisdom about sovereignty and
state capacity, and sort out the humbug. They consider whether
sovereignty itself is an impediment or a requirement to security
and prosperity. And, in three urgent areas ripe for progress -
preventing deadly conflict, providing opportunities for the young,
and managing the many harms of climate change - they advance plans
of action by which states, with others in the global community,
can govern successfully in the future. Their message gives both
hope and warning: globalization opens great possibilities of prosperity,
security, and human well being, but only if new ways of governance
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Who
is Araid of the State?
Canada in a World of Multiple Centres of Power,
edited by Gordon Smith and Daniel Wolfish (Toronto: Univeristy
of Toronto Press, 2001).
Is the government becoming less powerful? Is it in retreat vis-a-vis
a proliferation of non-governmental agencies, multinational corporations,
and international organizations? The essays in this collection
argue that - contrary to some private-sector populists - the state
is in the best position to lead in making policy in a rapidly
changing world and should retain and refine this responsibility.
Examining the interaction of government, international organizations,
civil society, and the private sector, the contributors show that
government, far from being stagnant, is in a constant state of
transformation and revitalization. It may work to prepare citizens
for changes that often seem inevitable and sometimes it challenges,
even resists, the directions or modes of such change. It remains
an important - perhaps the most crucial - actor in the governance
process. |
 Canadian
Public Policy Special Edition August 2000
See the paper Governance and Policy in a Multicentric
World
by Daniel Wolfish and Gordon Smith |
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Last Update:
February 20, 2004
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