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Welcome to my blog - I'm Charles Reed and I advise the Church of England on foreign policy issues.
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Tag Archives: Alex Evans
Building Resilience in a Fragile World
Last month I blogged on how rising food prices in the Middle East might have provided the immediate trigger to the Arab Spring. Two reports, both dealing with the question of resource scarcity in an interdependent world, have since caught … Continue reading
Posted in Food Security
Tagged Alex Evans, Desmond Tutu, Food Security, Grow, Maplecroft, Oxfam
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Development Futures
How should Labour work with civil society, faith groups and others to deliver effective development? That was the question that I posted last week following a meeting of the Labour Party’s policy review group on international development. The little research … Continue reading
Guidelines for Making a Successful Transition from Autocracy to Democracy
With public and political attention firmly transfixed by events in Libya are we at risk of loosing focus when it comes to Tunisia and Egypt? Are we in danger of seeing these revolutions as self-contained events rather than the start … Continue reading
Posted in Middle East
Tagged Alex Evans, Arab Democracy, Democratic Reform, Egypt, International Crisis Group, Middle East, Nick Grono
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