Quel est le rôle de l'ONU dans le conflit entre la Russie et l'Ukraine ?

Par ces temps de Coronavirus, l’éducation, au Maroc, comme partout ailleurs à travers le monde, est amenée à se tourner vers des alternatives à distance. Certains voient en ce changement un risque de creusement des inégalités déjà existantes en matière d’accès, de qualité et de rétention. D’autres, saisissent cette nouvelle expérience pour ouvrir les voies de l’innovation et de la massification d’une éducation de qualité pour tous. Or, ces opportunités offertes, et ses souhaits expr ...

On February 3, 2003, Colin Powell, U.S. President George Bush’s Secretary of State, informed the United Nations Security Council about secret information collected by the U.S. about Iraq’s weapons of mass destructions. “Every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions,” he said. There was “no doubt in my mind” that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program, and the invasion of Iraq was urgent and justified, because “the gravity of this ...

He is a young man like no other. One can spot him easily in a crowd by the way he dresses and addresses the issues with which he is concerned. Leonardo Párraga, an award-winning social entrepreneur and alternative education activist, was born in Colombia with the soul of an artist. He writes poetry, engages with photography, and finds inspiration in the writings of Walt Whitman, whom he describes as the poet of “interconnectedness”. At 25, he left Bogotá for Harvard University, for ...

This paper takes a comparative look at Sudan, Morocco, and Algeria, at the rise of Nubian and Amazigh rights groups, and their attempts to redefine national identity. We examine: 1/ how Nubian rights groups have sparked what is being called a Kushite revival in Sudan, and are pushing for a change in educational policy and archaeological practice to engender a new historiography and national narrative; 2/ how Amazigh movements in Morocco and Algeria are similarly trying to expand con ...

For Africa, this new decade began full of promise to achieve the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals and on its way to realising the goals and priorities of Agenda 2063. With the entry of the intra-African trade from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement, which comes into effect on July 1st 2020, an estimated combined gross domestic product (GDP) of more than US$3.4 trillion expected to trickle in the Continent. This revenue estimation is good ne ...

Tous les pays du monde sont touchés, à différentes échelles, par la pandémie du Covid-19. Les interrogations autour du degré de résilience des Etats africains sont nombreuses et les questionnements sur l’avenir du continent, si la pandémie venait à perdurer dans le temps, le sont tout autant. Comment des Etats peu dotés en moyens sanitaires pourront-ils y faire face ? Y a-t-il un risque de violence dans certains pays où le degré de stabilité politique est faible ? Et, enfin, qu’advi ...

تم نشر هذا المقال في الأصل على موقع قناة الحرة طرح هذا الكتاب باكرا مواضيع النقاش المثارة حاليا، إثر اجتياح فيروس كورونا العالم، ودور الصين في التسبب به. أثارت الصين إعجاب كثيرين بفيديوهاتها وحركاتها التسويقية لتعاملها مع الوباء، من الروبوت الذي يحمل الوجبات للمحجورين، إلى قدرتها في السيطرة عليه ومساعدتها لإيطاليا في محنتها ولغيرها من البلدان فكرة الكتاب التي جمعت بين متخصص في الذكاء الاصطناعي وسياسي مهتم بالعلوم، جاءت كنوع من تحذير حول خطورة الوضع بانتظار الكارثة المقبلة التي ست ...

Our senior fellow, Otaviano Canuto, has contributed to Science Direct academic Journal, with a research paper entitled « Does the Brazilian policy for oil revenues distribution foster investment in human capital? », Volume 88, May 2020, 104760. This paper assesses the effect of oil revenues on health and education indicators (measures for human capital) in the Brazilian municipalities using exogenous oil price variations. The Oil Law of 1997, apart from to hugely increase the amoun ...