The Center of Studies and Cultures of Latin America (CECAL), the Research Center for Development and Peace (CRDP), attached to the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon, and the Interdisciplinary Research Network on the Arab World and Latin America (RIMAAL) in France, are organizing an International Colloquium on the relations between Latin America and the Middle-East. Organizers intend to gather researchers from these two areas, plus…

This piece was originally posted by the Council on Foreign Relations Development Channel blog.

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TUDCN Seminar on South-South Cooperation

Florianopolis, Brazil; 28th -…

Co-sponsored by the International Studies Association’s Global South Caucus and the Institut d'Études…

Traditional aid models and organizations have not managed to precipitate sustainable development, nor do they have the incentives in place to report failure or adapt rapidly when plans go wrong. As a result, failing projects continue and results remain sub-optimal. One approach we have adopted at the Accountability Lab is to understand that in difficult contexts, the definition of success (or more accurately- progress) must be slightly different. Taking risks with new and more innovative…

Recently in Bangladesh, some agricultural farmers showed their agitation against the government by through tons of paddy in the main road of capital city. The cause of their grief was that, they couldn’t make profit by selling paddy due to the…

Event overview (from the site http://www.ftbusiness.com/brazilafrica/overview.asp?m_pid=0&m_nid=38872)…

The Brazil country study on Knowledge Exchange -- completed in preparation for the High-Level Meeting "Towards Country-Led Knowledge Hubs" held in Bali last month -- focused on the South-South cooperation practices of two government-affiliated knowledge hubs: Fiocruz and Embrapa. Fiocruz (shorthand for the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) specializes in biomedical sciences and is widely considered one of the world's foremost public…

El pasado 18 de julio del 2012, en la Ciudad de Antiguo Cuscatlán, los gobiernos de El Salvador y Ecuador procedieron a celebrar la Reunión de Evaluación de Medio Término del Programa de Cooperación Técnica 2011-2013, producto de la pasada I Reunión de Comisión Mixta de Cooperación Técnica entre ambos países (2011).

En dicho marco, se procedió a generar un balance de ejecución de los 25 proyectos de cooperación técnica que han sido acordados entre ambos países, y los cuales contemplan…

Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão - FUNAG

Federação das Indústrias do Estado de São Paulo - FIESP

III mesa-redonda "O Brasil, os BRICS e a agenda internacional"

São Paulo, 31 de julho de 2012

Objetivo: analisar ações que os BRICS e o Brasil, em particular, podem e devem empreender

para maximizar os benefícios do mecanismo de cooperação.

Metodologia: breves exposições de 10min a 15min com debates posteriores moderados pelo

Embaixador…