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	April 14, 2015 OEF Fellow Andrew Mack on Global Dispatches Podcast Political Conflict Episode 60 of Global Dispatches Podcast with Mark Goldberg features Andrew Mack - a Fellow at the One Earth Future Foundation, professor at Simon Fraser University, and Director of the Human Security Report.
	February 20, 2015 What Violence Prevention Can Learn from Public Health Campaigns Political Conflict, Evolution, Cooperation, and Conflict Leaders found that mixing outreach with education can create the critical mass of support needed to drive a social change.
	February 12, 2015 Somali Piracy and the War That Didn't Happen Political Institutions, Political Conflict Networks of non-state actors have proved to be a more sustainable force in countering piracy than military boots and warships.
	February 10, 2015 Is Civil Society a Double-Edged Sword? Political Institutions There are competing perspectives about the role of civil society in weakly institutionalized democracies. At times, the destabilization caused by mass mobilization can seem challenging to democratic governance.
	February 05, 2015 Do Beliefs Cause Conflict? Political Conflict The study of individual beliefs and belief systems may have the potential to provide valuable insights into the drivers of many conflicts. But conflict prevention that is not systematic, self-critical and acknowledging of all of the other elements that may spawn conflict, has the potential to devolve into a demonization... more
	January 22, 2015 Ruth DeFries: Peace and the Environment Promoting peace and human security on our planet will require us to overcome a multitude of obstacles, maintaining environmental sustainability not least among them.
	January 15, 2015 Conversations on Conflict: Possibilities for the 21st Century Gender & Security, Political Institutions, Political Conflict This conversation brought together leaders with a range of perspectives to explore the possibilities for reducing and eliminating armed conflict in the 21st century.
	January 12, 2015 Business and the Third Pillar Political Conflict, Business & Governance The adoption of the “Responsibility to Protect” (RtoP) by the UN General Assembly marked what many people hoped would be a turning point in support for international action to stop mass atrocity crimes...but it has encountered many hurdles.

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