October 22, 2012 Events

October 21 - October 28, 2012

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23rd
Africa's Third Liberation: The New Search for Prosperity and Jobs (Book Forum)
Hosted by: Cato Institute
Location: 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
Time: 12:00 p.m. with luncheon to follow
Summary: If Africa's first liberation was from colonialism, and its second from the tyranny of many of its liberators, the third must concentrate on economic development. Africa has to overcome its racial, tribal, and religious divisions and offer Africans the opportunity to set their own agendas. To achieve economic development, African governments must embrace a "growth ideology." Many African governments have to drop their animus to capitalism and create a welcoming environment for domestic and foreign capital. Please join this panel for a discussion about the future prospects for growth on the African continent. Featuring the co-author Jeffrey Herbst, President, Colgate University; with comments by Todd Moss, Vice President, Center for Global Development, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, State Department; moderated by Marian L. Tupy, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
For more information and to RSVP, please visit:http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=9202

 
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24th
Does Internal Migration Improve Overall Well-Being in Ethiopia?
Hosted by: Center for Global Development
Location: 1800 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Summary: At this October 24th event, Alan de Brauw will present a new paper in which he and his co-authors use a unique panel dataset of migrants and non-migrants from 18 villages in Ethiopia to examine the impacts of internal migration on objective and subjective measures of welfare. They find large gains to objective welfare measures such as consumption, of more than 280 percent. However, they find that migrants' responses to questions meant to measure subjective welfare, are similar to those of non-migrants. The low levels of migration, despite the large objective welfare gains, suggest that barriers within countries like Ethiopia prevent people from moving to places where they would be better off. FeaturingAlan de Brauw, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Research Policy Institute;with discussantKathleen Beegle, Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank.
For more information, please visit:http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1426567
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24th Annual Lynch Lecture: Human Rights, Sovereign Rights, and the Potential of Conflict Resolution
Hosted by: George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Location: GMU Arlington Campus, Founders Hall, Room 125, 3351 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Summary: Does Intervention in the name of Human Rights undermine Conflict Resolution? The recent cases of Libya and Syria have highlighted the salience of this question and the challenges that it presents for scholars and policy-makers interested in the resolution of violent conflict in global politics. Drawing on a rich theoretical, conceptual, and historical research trajectory, this lecture seeks to highlight the dangers as well as the opportunities presented by the juxtaposition of humanity and sovereignty in international politics generally and in the context of conflict resolution in particular. This event will feature Vivienne Jabri, PhD, Professor of International Politics in the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
For more information and to RSVP, please visit:http://scar.gmu.edu/event/14529

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25th
Table Top Exercise: Implications for Africa from Global Food Crisis of 2006-2008
Hosted by: Society for International Development
Location: SID-Washington, 1101 15th Street NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C.
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Summary: Join the SID-Washington Africa Workgroup for an event that will feature small table discussions where participants will discuss food security issues from a number of different perspectives, including, but not limited to host country governments, farmers/agriculture community,
NGOs & security. Each table will have a facilitator and will look at the issue from a different perspective. Participants will be provided with a few articles prior to the session for background reading. Registration for this event will be limited to 30 participants, so register now to attend.
For more information, please visit:http://www.sidw.org/events
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