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Traumberuf Diplomat?
Sie dürfen ungestraft falsch parken, genießen Immunität und bewegen sich im feinen Zwirn elegant im Glanz der High Society. Soweit das Vorurteil über Diplomaten. Doch die Wirklichkeit sieht anders aus. Diplomaten machen einen harten Job. Sie repräsentieren Deutschland in aller Welt, bauen Brücken zwischen den Kulturen und helfen Krisen vermeiden. Für die ARD-Dokumentation 'Traumjob Diplomat - Alltag in Deutschlands Botschaften' gewähren zwei Botschafter seltene Einblicke in das Leben, das sich hinter den Toren ihrer Residenzen abspielt. ardmediathek.de
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Institute of Sociology Basel
Students form Basle came to Geneva in January 2008 as part of their Nachdipliplomstudium. A two day seminar was organised for them including various conferences and visits which you can see in the attached programme.
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Alternative Development Strategies for Bolivia
Bolivia is a country with contradictory trends which have often led to violent disputes about distrubution of wealth and reduction of poverty versus upholding of market based principles and legal framework. At the extreme, there are two ideological positions which appear totally incompatible that is socialist versus neoliberal policies. For more than 10 years, Bolivia followed IMF inspired financial, fiscal, trade and economic policies but did not improve its poverty nor did it manage to graduate from being a heavily-indebted poor country (HIPC). The new approach by Bolivia's new president, Mr. Evo Morales, appears to focus on redistribution policies following the examples of Cuba and Venezuela at the risk of loosing opportunities to make full use of its economic, energy and trade potential. CSEND has been involved in capacity building projects at government level in Bolivia at the beginning of the new millenium. The argument put forward by CSEND's publication below is that Bolivia does not have to choose between two extremes - socialism versus neoliberal capitalism- but should rather explore alternative options which could help it achieve both reduction of poverty while at the same time being an active partner in the world economy.
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CDM, European Climate Policy Research Seminars (ECPRS)
CSEND wrote background paper for a policy seminar on "Designing a Strategy to Improve the Functioning of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol", organised by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels. The title of the CSEND paper was "Hype or Reality: Can the CDM trigger FDI?, Brussels, October 2005.
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Environmental Negotiation, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
CSEND conducted an interdisciplinary study from 2002-2004 on resolution of environmental conflicts titled "Governing the Use of Landscape and Habitats in Alpine Areas: Negotiations as a Means to co-ordinate Stakeholder Interests" together with colleagues form the University of Basle. The study was part of the Swiss National Science Foundation programme Nr. 48. Results of the study were published in book form in October, 2005.
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Trade in Educational Services, WTO-GATS
CSEND wrote background paper for the meeting of the Educational Contact Group held at WTO in Geneva and participated in the meeting as educational expert and member of the Swiss delegation. The title of the paper was "Trade in Educational Services and the Doha WTO Round: the Need to Move out of Current Impasse", Geneva, September 2005.
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Integrated Framework (IF), BAH-USAID
CSEND worked on a USAID-sponsored policy project for Booz Allen Hamilton. The goal of the study was to identify success factors of the Integrated Framework (IF) a WTO instrument targeted to support Least Developed Country's supply-side deficiencies. Target interviews were conducted with officials of the Geneva-based IF agencies namely WTO, UNCTAD, UNDP and ITC. Geneva, August 2005.
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Poverty Reduction Strategy, ILO, Geneva
CSEND conducted research on how to best include employment and decent work into the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP), the successor instrument of the IMF/WB following their failed Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). CSEND drafted a major document titled "Decent Work and Poverty Reduction Strategies: An ILO Advocacy Guidebook" and developed a 24 role negotiation simulation concerning PRSPs. The simulation was pilot-tested in Ethiopia (2003) and Cameroon (2005). The Guidebook was published by ILO, Geneva, April 2005.
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Education and Socio-economic Development, OECD
CSEND gave two policy presentations entitled "Economic Growth, National Competitiveness and Education" and "Continuous Learning: Key Driver for Social and Economic Development" at an international conference on "Governance and Education for Sustainable Development and European Integration" organized by OECD, Paris for government officials of Central and South-Eastern European countries. The conference was held in Graz, Austria, January 2005.
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Higher Education, OECD
CSEND chaired a panel and gave papers on "The link between higher education and employability" and another paper on "Quality Evaluation in a Diversified Higher Education System - at an International Seminar on the Development of Higher Education and Financing Policies co-organised by OECD, Paris and the Ministry of Education, Beijing, China July 2004.
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