Social Cohesion: Concepts and Measurement
Social Innovation for Refugee Inclusion
Ministry of Municipal Affairs: Sarhan Municipality
Zaatri Manshiah Municipality
Center for Mediterranean Integration Workshop on Social Cohesion for Host Municipalities
Social Cohesion in the Context of Urban Refugees Crisis
Social Cohesion Concepts and Measurement
Strengthening Social Cohesion in Mediterranean Host Municipalities
Digital Technologies for Economic Development in the Mediterranean
Framing Notes: Strengthening Social Cohesion in Mediterranean Municipalities Hosting Refugees
Countering Violent Extremism and Risk Reduction
Concept Note: Strengthening Social Cohesion in Mediterranean Host Municipalities
Violent Extremism: Professional Development Reading Pack
Countering Violent Extremism and Development Assistance
Youth and Consequences: Unemployment, Injustice and Violence
[Webinar] Urban Policies for Better Mediterranean Cities
Oct 26, 2016 / Highlight
The Accessibility we Need: Challenges for the Habitat III New Urban Agenda
The urbanization process is strongly linked to social and economic development and cities can mitigate its negative externalities through a coordinated approach and clear policy directions.
In most developing countries, urbanization is leading to enormous...
Local and Regional Government Can Play a Pivotal Role in the Mediterranean Climate Agenda
Oct 26, 2016 / Blog entry
Local and Regional Governments (LRG) Possess the Advantage of Making Proposals Globally
The structure of LRG and the lobbying power they possess allows them to be better positioned on an international level. With the Global Task Force, a consortium of associations in which the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) has a leading role,...
Coproducing Mediterranean Cities
Oct 26, 2016 / Highlight
Smart Urban Places, Low-tech Projects & Cities in Transition
At the forefront of the “engineered” city and the “agile” city, developers are key players in shaping urban spaces in the Mediterranean, and are at the core of the processes transforming project conception and implementation.
What new project management processes – including...
Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) Newsletter #26 [September 2016]
MOOC : radicalisation et terrorisme
Oct 20, 2016 / Library
Le MOOC radicalisation et terrorisme vise à analyser le phénomène et à capitaliser sur la réflexion autour des moyens pour y remédier à l’échelle individuelle et collective. Il s’adresse à un large public et à tous les arabophones et francophones s’intéressant à la question. Le contenu de ce cours programmé sur 7 semaines propose...
Economic and Social Inclusion to Prevent Violent Extremism
How to Become a Greenz Climate Champion
Oct 20, 2016 / Library
Why toolkits on climate change? In Grenada, the science, geography and social studies curriculum includes some components of climate change and environmental stewardship. However, only limited resources are available for educators to get students actively involved in the topic of climate change. This Grenada-specific toolkit includes a lot of...
Peer-to-Peer Learning Workshop: Strengthening Social Cohesion in Municipalities Hosting Refugees
Oct 19, 2016 / Highlight
Context and Rationale
Following the exchanges from the Peer to Peer learning workshop “Mediterranean Municipalities at the Forefront of the Refugee Crisis” which took place in Amman May 30-June 1st, 2016, the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) launched a Host Municipalities Learning Network in September 2016. Within the framework of this...
Counting the Invisible Girls: Using Data to Transform the Lives of Women and Girls by 2030
Oct 18, 2016 / Library
Counting the Invisible' explores the current state of gender data and exposes the gaps: we don’t count how many girls leave school because of early marriage, pregnancy or violence, exactly how many give birth before they turn 15, how many hours a day they spend working, what kind of work they do and whether they get paid for it.
Can Entrepreneurship Education Improve Work Opportunities for College Graduates?
Oct 18, 2016 / Library
Education is usually seen as a route for improving people’s employment opportunities, but this hasn’t proven the case in many developing countries. As the World Bank’s 2013 World Development Report highlighted.
Sustainable Urban Development
Oct 17, 2016 / Library
Building on decades of GIZ experience in bilateral, regional and global programmes the publication provides insights into GIZ’s contribution to sustainable urban development under the heading “designing tomorrow”s cities”. Multiple project examples (a selection) display GIZ’s broad thematic expertise. The experiences and knowledge gained over many...
Invisible Wounds: Mental Health among Displaced People and Refugees
Oct 17, 2016 / Blog entry
The plight of forcibly displaced people, who are fleeing conflict and violence, is best summed up by the lyrics of the plaintive 1970 classic by Argentine troubadour Facundo Cabral: "No soy de aquí ni soy de allá" ("I'm not from here nor there"). Those lyrics convey both the sense of uprootedness felt by those displaced from their native lands and...
Jihad and the French Exception
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Whether Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who killed more than 80 people during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice, was an agent of the Islamic State or an unhinged loner who borrowed the group’s jihadist symbols, the slaughter raises the same fundamental question: Why do so many more attacks of this magnitude occur in France than in other European...
The Emancipation Gap in Arab Education
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
Discussion of education in the Arab world has focused only rarely on the role of schooling in changing social and political mores. This is unfortunate, because educated citizens of Arab countries tend to be much less emancipated politically and socially, on average, than their peers in other parts of the world. If Arab societies are ever to become...
How Should the World Respond to Terrorism
Oct 12, 2016 / Library
March 2016 alone saw a string of major terrorist attacks around the world—including in Ivory Coast, Belgium, Pakistan, Iraq, and Turkey—that together killed more than 100 people. The drumbeat of attacks seems horrifyingly constant, and underscores the fact that nearly 15 years since the United States launched its so-called global war on terror,...
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