2000: Volume 31
Volume 31 Number 2 May 2000
Edited by: Andrea Cornwall and Sarah C. White
From work in the reproductive health field involving men, to a concern about rising male unemployment and gender-based violence, men and masculinities are now very firmly on the gender and development agenda (GAD). Yet the shift towards considering men’s identities and relations as gendered subjects raises challenges that lie at the heart of GAD as a political project. This issue draws together a range of perspectives from people involved in the debate.
Volume 31 Number 3 July 2000
Edited by: Alan Fowler
This issue, prepared by IDS alumni, takes a critical look at the concept of ‘partnership’ in today’s official aid system. It does so from the perspective of non-governmental organisations involved in third world development (NGOs) that are directly or indirectly related to aid thinking, policy, practice and financing.
Volume 31 Number 4 October 2000
Edited by: Sarah Cook and Naila Kabeer
Worldwide changes in the context of social policy have been set in process by a combination of forces, including globalisation, economic liberalisation and transitions to democracy.
These are leading to new patterns of inequality and insecurity that in turn reveal the limitations of state-driven welfare systems and the need to involve other institutions in social provision. Social policy needs rethinking to adjust to these new realities.
This Bulletin is based on work undertaken in the initial stage of a three-year research programme on social policy in a number of transitional, emerging and poor countries.
2001: Volume 32
Volume 32 Number 1 January 2001
Edited by: Richard C. Crook and Peter P. Houtzager
After a hiatus, law has re-emerged onto the international development agenda. A number of reasons are suggested: first, the ‘good governance’ policies advocated by the international donor community see reform of the state and its relations with society as key elements in promoting market-led growth.
Second, more legitimate and effective legal institutions are needed to protect citizen’s rights, limit the actions of corrupt state officials and protect the livelihoods of poor people. Then, there is an emerging concern with the legally defined concept of citizenship. Finally, questions of policing, access to justice and judicial reform are near the top of many national agendas, after levels of crime, civil disorder and violence have risen in the cities of the developing world.
The articles in this Bulletin are the product of an international workshop that considered these issues, held at IDS in June 2000.
Volume 32 Number 2 May 2001
Edited by: Susan Willett
The exclusion of a large section of the global population from the benefits of globalisation has been recognised as one of the major challenges of the new century. This failure to deliver a more equitable distribution of the benefits of globalisation is likely to have dire consequences for the stability of world order.
This special Alumni edition of the IDS Bulletin explores the relationship between globalisation, security and development.
It addresses growing concerns about the way in which poverty undermines human security and contributes to conflict in the developing world and the emerging markets of the former Communist world. It then makes steps towards unravelling the relationship in order to clarify policy options for international and local actors and to redefine relevant conflict prevention and resolution strategies, and strategies for post-conflict reconstruction.
