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• Armoedebestrijding

  • Milleniumdoel 2: Alle kinderen naar school

    May 2016Sen FoundationJacintha van der Plas, Msc.Dutch

    Zo luidt Millenniumdoel 2, opgesteld in de Millenniumverklaring van 2000, om wereldwijd voor 2015 de grote problemen op het gebied van onderwijs aan te pakken (NCDO, www.NCDO.nl). In ontwikkelingslanden gaan miljoenen kinderen niet naar school. Zij worden thuis gehouden om een bijdrage te leveren aan het gezinsinkomen en het huishouden. Verplicht en toegankelijk basisonderwijs is een belangrijk middel in de strijd tegen armoede. Onderwijs geeft kinderen kennis en hiermee de kans zich verder te ontwikkelen. Zo krijgen zij meer kansen voor de toekomst.

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    Alle kinderen naar school - Millenniumdoel 2

  • De rol van multinational in de strijd tegen armoede

    May 2013Sen FoundationRogier van VoordenDutch

    In 2010 leefden er wereldwijd 1.2 miljard mensen onder de extreme armoedegrens van 1.25 dollar per dag. Een van de targets van het eerste Millennium Ontwikkelingsdoel, waarin wordt gestreefd naar het eindigen van honger en armoede, betreft het halveren van het aantal mensen ten opzichte van 1990 dat zich onder deze grens bevindt (United Nations, 2013a:6-7). De Millennium Ontwikkelingsdoelen zijn acht doelen die in 2000 door 189 landen zijn aangenomen en die grotendeels in 2015 behaald dienen te worden (United Nations, 2006:26). In delen van Azië worden het eerste Millennium Ontwikkelingsdoel grotendeels behaald. Echter, in Afrika en in de armere landen van Azië is dit niet het geval.

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    De rol van multinationals in de strijd tegen armoede De rol van multinationals in de strijd tegen armoede (korte versie)

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• Economie en Financiën

  • Lessons from Ukraine

    January 2017University of LeidenBarboutev, I.K.English

    This study aims to examine the impact of IMF programs in Ukraine during the period between 1994 and 2002. Many questions have been raised about the effectiveness of IMF-backed adjustment programs. Some Ukrainian politicians and academics have been eager to blame the Fund for Ukraine’s transition woes. Actually, the IMF helped Ukraine to limit its severe economic trouble.

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    Lessons from Ukraine

  • Oil Smuggling and the Greek Crisis

    August 2014Bridging EuropeVasileios P. KarakasisEnglish

    The report describes how the fuel market works in Greece. It pays special attention to oil smuggling that has become dominant in the Greek economy. The report concludes with measures that should be taken to improve the income of Greece.

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    Oil Smuggling and the Greek Crisis

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• Klimaat en Ecologie

  • SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy – Policy Insights

    January 2020Sen FoundationMarijn van Rees, Research Associate at the Sen FoundationEnglish

    Policy efforts currently fall short of all SDG 7 targets. Progress on clean cooking and renewable energy is lagging behind. Progress on electricity and energy efficiency is better, but more efforts are needed to meet the targets. Based on the latest IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 ̊C, energy-related emissions need to be reduced by 3.5% annually until 2050 and continue thereafter. The accelerated deployment of renewable energy, combined with increases in energy access and energy efficiency, can achieve 90% of the energy-related CO2 emissions reductions needed to reach the well-below 2 ̊C aim of the Paris Agreement

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    SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy - Policy Insights, by Marijn van Rees

  • SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy – Current Status

    January 2020Sen FoundationMarijn van Rees, Research Associate at the Sen FoundationEnglish

    SDG 7 is set out to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.3 According to the UN, energy is central to nearly every major challenge the world faces today. For one thing, the problem of energy is closely connected to the problem of climate change as the energy sector represents by far the largest source of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions that are contributing to global warming.

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    SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy - Current Status, by Marijn van Rees

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• Lezingen en (Media) Artikelen

  • Speech on the Role of Peace in Advancing Achievement of SDGs

    September 2018Joris VoorhoeveEnglish

    Considering the above context, the International Institute of Governance & Leadership, organized the 2nd Global Governance & Leadership Forum in India on 10th September 2018 at Hotel Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba Mumbai. The theme of the Forum was appropriately chosen to be the ‘Challenges in Global Governance – Collective Governance of the Planet’. Here, our Director and Former Defence Minister of Netherlands & Member of the Global Board of IIGL,  Joris Voorhoeve, being an expert on Peace, as he was co-chair of global partnership for the prevention of armed conflict, which is a ‘UN Peace Keeping’ initiative, shared his thoughts on the ‘Role of Peace in advancing achievement of SDGs’.

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    Speech on the Role of Peace in Advancing Achievement of SDGs - Joris Voorhoeve

  • Reflections on Good Governance

    December 2016Sen FoundationJoris VoorhoeveEnglish

    Good governance improves human rights. Full implementation of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights is the highest goal. The UN treaties on human rights specify all. The best system of government is free representative democracy. Illiberal democracy, populist direct democracy, referendum democracy, theocracy and autocracy do not lead to good government.

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    Reflections on Good Governance

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• Migratie en Integratie

  • Right-wing populism in Dutch border areas

    May 2018University of LeidenJavid IbadEnglish

    In the last decades, Europe was experiencing a considerable increase of right-wing populist parties. The maps of the electoral results show an intriguing puzzle. Radical right parties were more successful at the border constituencies

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    Right-wing populism support in the Dutch national borders by Javid Ibad

  • Explaining Germany’s refugee policy change in 2015 in comparison with the Netherlands

    April 2017University of LeidenKathinka Luisa GaessEnglish

    This research explores the extent to which Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) explains the difference in the asylum policy approaches of Germany and the Netherlands during 2015. Both countries had been conducting restrictive asylum policies during the past 20 years. However, in 2015, at the peak of the European refugee crisis, Germany abruptly transformed its approach to refugees into an open-door policy while the Netherlands continued with its restrictive approach. This led to a remarkable difference in the number of asylum seekers both countries received in 2015; a divergence which served as a point of departure for this research. This paper mainly focuses on the case study of Germany’s asylum policy.

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    Explaining Germany’s refugee policy change in 2015

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• Overig

  • De effecten van directe democratie – Een analyse van twee nationale referenda in Nederland

    July 2016University of LeidenMerle PrastDutch

    In western democracies there are signs of a democratic recession, there is a decline in political participation levels, and there is little trust in governing institutions. In response, a popular remedy that is often proposed by scholars and politicians is direct democracy. As direct democracy allows citizens to directly vote on questions, it is argued that it has the potential to increase the political participation of citizens and decrease political dissatisfaction. The goal of this thesis is to research whether these claimed effects about direct democracy are observed when analysing two national referenda in the Netherlands.

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    De effecten van directe democratie - Een analyse van twee nationale referenda in Nederland

  • The Singaporean Development Model

    2014Sen FoundationVictor MaertensEnglish

    Singapore gained full independence in 1965. This young state propelled itself from a considerably poor state with few natural resources into one of the most efficient and rich states on the globe. A centre of industry and education, Singapore can be seen by many as a role model for development. Can Singapore’s success be replicated elsewhere and be used as a new framework for developing countries to employ?

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    The Singaporean Development Model

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• Summer School

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• Veiligheid

  • Kleine Wapens: bestaand beleid en kansen voor ontwikkeling

    Sen FoundationDutch

    Er vallen ongeveer 500.000 doden per jaar als gevolg van de wijdverspreide beschikbaarheid van SALW (Small Arms and Light Weapons). Hoewel ze groot zijn, zijn de gevolgen van wapenbezit en handel in westerse landen als Nederland, de VS en Zwitserland niet zo breed als in conflictgebieden: “An estimated 300,000 intentional firearms deaths occur annually from armed conflict. Another 200,000 people are killed in countries that are ‘peaceful’. Millions more suffer lifethreatening injury. Less developed countries generally face higher rates of firearms homicide, while developed countries grapple more with firearm suicides.” (Small Arms Survey, 2001: Executive Summary: Ch 6). Er zijn dus veel onnodige doden die voorkomen kunnen worden door wapenwetgeving en veiligheidsmaatregelen aan te scherpen. Maar wapens worden ook gebruikt met niet dodelijke gevolgen zoals verwonding of brengen sociale schade toe door bedreiging, afpersing en andere vormen van corruptie.

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    Kleine Wapens Beleid

  • Jihadisme in Noordelijk Afrika

    2012Sen Foundation and Nederlandse Defensie AcademieSoumia Ait-Hida, Theo BrinkelDutch

    Sinds de jaren negentig zijn op veel plaatsen in de wereld jihadistische terroristische organisaties actief. Zoals bijvoorbeeld in Afghanistan, Irak, Indonesië en Somalië. Niet alleen ver weg, ook in het meer nabije Noord Afrika baart een terroristische organisatie die zichzelf noemt “Al-Qaida in de Islamitische Maghreb” (AQIM), de nodige zorgen. En in het olierijke Nigeria, een dichtbevolkt land op de scheidslijn tussen islam en christendom, lijkt de ideologie van al-Qaida in opkomst met het optreden van de terroristische organisatie “Boko Haram”, die alles wat westers is verwerpelijk vindt.

    De voorliggende rapportage bevat de tweede druk van een analyse van twee jihadistische extremistische organisaties en bewegingen in Noordelijk Afrika. De voorbeelden – AQIM en Boko Haram – zijn genomen uit de landen van de Maghreb, de Sahel en het grensgebied tussen islam en christendom.

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    Jihadisme in Noordelijk Afrika

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• Vredesopbouw en conflictpreventie

  • Building Peace

    March 2018English

    This file contains the content from the Building Peace Symposium.

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    Building Peace

    

  • Kosovo – A study in Peacebuilding after Secession and the Role of External Actors

    June 2017University of LeidenMihailo JoveticEnglish

    Since the end of the conflict in 1999 and its unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia, Kosovo has been subject to several international peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions. This thesis looks at what impact external actors can have in the peacebuilding process after secession and to what extent they can accelerate or hinder the process of state-building and developing of institutions. The thesis makes use of a proto-theory which sketches several variables by which one can determine to what extent there is good governance in a state. The conclusion of the research is that external actors have even more influence in Kosovo than was expected, and that this influence is embedded in the institutional design of Kosovo due to the way Kosovo became what it is today.

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    Kosovo- A study in Peacebuilding after Secession and the Role of External Actors

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