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The Crisis In Darfur: An Opportunity For The United Nations To Reclaim Its Status As Standard Bearer For Peace And Security For The International Community, Leilani F. Battiste Feb 2009

The Crisis In Darfur: An Opportunity For The United Nations To Reclaim Its Status As Standard Bearer For Peace And Security For The International Community, Leilani F. Battiste

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Since early 2003, the western Darfur region of the Sudan has been subjected to a massive campaign of ethnic violence that has claimed the lives of almost 400,000 civilians, and has created nearly 2 million internally-displaced refugees or refugees that have fled to camps in neighboring Chad. Despite the unmistakable tragedy that has occurred and continues to occur, the international community has utterly failed to respond. The United Nations has taken almost no leadership role in abating or even stopping the crisis. Debate over whether the term "genocide" should be used to describe the ethnic cleansing and displacement of nearly …


Reshaping Natural Resources Management In A Globalized World : A Balancing Act, Lila Barrera-Hernández Jan 2007

Reshaping Natural Resources Management In A Globalized World : A Balancing Act, Lila Barrera-Hernández

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Natural resources' development scenarios involving indigenous peoples and other minority stakeholders, foreign investors (private and public), and considerable environmental and social impacts are increasingly frequent, particularly in South America and other developing regions. Balancing development's impacts and benefits and looking after a country's balance of payments while taking into account, among other things, minority rights, respect for cultural identities, the need for widespread poverty alleviation and environmental stewardship is proving an extremely delicate task and one that increasingly requires thoughtful consideration of extraneous limitations, both factual and legal. Whilst a few decades ago the international law principle of permanent sovereignty …