This research note explores the strategies through which Uganda has been successful in battling HIV/AIDS, and suggests the limitations of current policies.

The Community Preservation Initiative (CPI) was an innovative attempt by the Massachusetts state government to stimulate discussion about land use and growth management at the local level. This paper examines the success of the CPI process in evolving land use dialogue within and between communities, and amongst planners at all three levels of government.

This paper explores how U.S. concerns – whether strategic, diplomatic or driven by domestic interest groups – dictate the linguistic response to crises. The author aims to show how the ongoing crisis in Darfur provides an opportunity to consider optimal responses to genocide.

This paper examines the five major factors that influence the worldwide spread of open source, open standards-compliant solutions in the public sector. These factors include reduced software expenses, increased security and transparency, digital data durability and future interoperability, national informsation technology independence and economic development, and the benefit of reducing software piracy.

This paper explores ways for transnational non-governmental organizations (TNGOs) to deepen their involvement in international, multilateral debates on undocumented international labor migration. It also addresses how TNGOs can promote policies that uphold migrants’ human rights in this new age of migration.

This paper argues that to fully evaluate the potential of the state-migrant relationship, it is necessary to study Diaspora peoples not only as potential sponsors of home state development, but in addition, as migrants with diverse motivations and complex relationships with the home state. To do so, two case studies are deployed: the Somali and Eritrean diasporas.