Here's what's happening at GEI...
GEI Office CHANGES
GEI is no longer operating out of 1033 Massachusetts Avenue in
Cambridge, and our operations
have been scaled down significantly for the time being.
Please contact John
Hammock for information about the Capabilities
Program and
Sudhir Anand for the China & India Program.
For general information about GEI, please contact Susan
McHone or Isabella Lau of the Asia Center .
Practical Idealists: Changing the World and Getting paid TO BE RELEASED September 15, 2008.
Practical Idealists: Changing the World and Getting Paid
By John Hammock, Alissa S. Wilson, and Ann Barham
Global Equity Initiative (2008)
This book draws on interviews with over forty practical idealists in an effort to inspire and teach others how to live a life of practical idealism. Practical idealists understand the connection between personal and social change. As a matter of practicality, they are concerned about income and employment, but they are equally committed to living out their values and to a broader concept of their well-being. These practical idealists are fully extending their personal capabilities to further their personal development. Human development at the personal level is the essence of practical idealism and the subject of this book.
Published by GEI. Purchase your copy here.
War in Darfur and the Search for Peace Released!
Alex de Waal, Editor
Global Equity Initiative (2007)
Since 2003, the Darfur region of Sudan has been the locus of a hideous war that has aroused the outrage of milions of ordinary people across the world. But despite a high level of media coverage and activist mobilization, Darfur's society and politics remain poorly understood. War in Darfur and the Search for Peace brings together essays by noted Sudanese scholars and international experts on Darfur, containing much new historical and contemporary research.
Alex de Waal has worked on Darfur since 1985. He is the author of Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan, 1984-1985, lead author of Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa, and co-author of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War. For more info on these titles, click here.
Published by GEI and Justice Africa. Purchase your copy here.
GEI Partners with OPHI
Oxford Poverty and Human Development
Initiative (OPHI) was
formally launched! OPHI, directed by Sabina
Alkire,
is a research initiative within the Department of International
Development,
Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford that advances
the human development
approach to poverty reduction by fundamental, sustained,
and multidisciplinary
research that is effectively disseminated. Its research
aims to contribute to
a multidimensional poverty reduction framework grounded
in Amartya Sen's capability
approach and similar ideas. This framework incorporates
multiple dimensions,
interconnections and principles simultaneously in order
to inform policymaking and foster debate.
New GEI Volume on Gender in Human Resources for Health Now Available!
Edited by Laura Reichenbach
Global Equity Initiative (2008)
Despite growing attention to human resources for health, consideration of how gender affects the number, distribution, and skill mix of the global health workforce has not been adequately addressed. This volume presents six case studies that identify a range of siutations in which gender impacts on human resources for health. The underlying hypothesis is that the gender dimensions of the health workforce present both potential barriers as well as possible entry-points through which the health system can strengthen the existing health workforce. The volume is an outcome of the Gender Task Force of the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI), an effort that engaged global health leaders to identify strategies for strengthening the health workforce.
Read the Lancet review here.
Making Sense of Darfur Blog
Program director Alex de Waal now has his own blog on the Darfur crisis. His first entry responds to John Prendergast’s “Plan B” strategy paper on Darfur—which formed the substance of a recent discussion between the two experts at the U.S. National Holocaust Museum.
From Alex's blog:
Every month, we hear advocates and humanitarian organizations saying that the situation in Darfur is once again deteriorating. The Sudan government says the opposite. It is unusual for an independent observer such as Gerbert van der Aa to make the case that things are not as bad as they are painted. What is the basis for these claims and counter-claims? Is it violent deaths, overall mortality and malnutrition, levels of displacement, security incidents affecting humanitarian agencies, or some other indicator?
Continue reading Alex's blog entry, Are things getting worse in Darfur? There is no simple answer.