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UNU Holidays

MAY 17	CRIS MERIT UNUOE WIDER
MAY 18	UNUOE
MAY 21	INWEH

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News

Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

CENTRE Posted on: May 17
Income polarization and innovation: Evidence from African economies

MERIT Posted on: May 17
Nonlinearities in productivity growth: A semi-parametric panel analysis

MERIT Posted on: May 17
Optimal health investment with separable and non-separable preferences

MERIT Posted on: May 17
Sustainable Sanitation: the Drive to 2015

INWEH Posted on: May 17
Technological capabilities and cost efficiency as antecedents of foreign market entry

MERIT Posted on: May 17
Adam Szirmai: New project on Institutions, Governance & Long-term Growth

MERIT Posted on: May 16
Perspectives on human development theory in democracy promotion: A comparison of democracy promotion programmes in Egypt through the lenses of classical and revised modernisation theory

MERIT Posted on: May 16
Prescriptions for network strategy: Does evidence of network effects in cross-section support them?

MERIT Posted on: May 16
Living and Working with HIV/AIDS: New Working Paper

MERIT Posted on: May 15
Luk Van Langenhove, Director UNU-CRIS, attends Global Trends 2030 Event, Brussels, 15 May 2012

CRIS Posted on: May 15
FOSSINA project nominated for WSIS prize

IAS Posted on: May 14
INWEH’s Drylands programme joins hands with UNU-LRT in Iceland for teaching land restoration and sustainable land management

INWEH Posted on: May 14
Nutritional Status, Nutritional Habit and Breakfast Intake in Relation to IQ among Primary School Children in Baghdad City, Iraq

IIGH Posted on: May 14
Quality of Life in Malaysian Colorectal Cancer Patients : A Preliminary Result

IIGH Posted on: May 14
Weighing Public Sector Innovation: UNU-MERIT Workshop

MERIT Posted on: May 12
YouTube Video Channel

MERIT Posted on: May 11
Harvard partnership brings new features to WEMS

IAS Posted on: May 10
Is Consumerism a Deadly Addiction? Corporations, Coltan and the DRC

MERIT Posted on: May 10
Lords of Uhuru: the political economy of elite competition and institutional change in post-independence Kenya

MERIT Posted on: May 10
The importance of manufacturing in economic development: Past, present and future perspectives

MERIT Posted on: May 10
UNU-EHS actively involved in ICLEI Resilient Cities conference

EHS Posted on: May 10
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao meets with UNU-GTP students

CENTRE Posted on: May 09
Exploring Demand and Capability for Managing Organizational Knowledge in Government

IIST Posted on: May 09
Improving aftermath crisis management in the European Union

EHS Posted on: May 09

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Events

Seminar: Foreign Aid and Democracy in Africa – A joint ODI and UNU-WIDER event

WIDER May 17
UN-CECAR renewable energy conference

ISP May 22-23
Symposium of International Day for Biological Diversity

ISP May 22
Workshop on innovation and sustainable development

IAS May 22
Trade Facilitation

MERIT May 24
ENHANCING THE CAPACITY OF PRIVATE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (PFIs) IN AFRICA FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, CLEAN AND LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES

INRA May 25-26
Annual Africa Day Symposium at UNU on 25 May

CENTRE May 25
The Risks of Innovation: Are Innovating Firms Less Likely to Die?

MERIT May 31
Software Research Towards Future eGovernment

IIST June 1
Online Migration Courses

MERIT June 4 - July 27
HECER-UNU-WIDER Seminar: Living through Crises: How the Food, Fuel, and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor. By Rasmus Heltberg. To be held in Helsinki.

WIDER June 5
UNU-WIDER Seminar: Urban Governance and Service Delivery in Africa. Jointly hosted with the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

WIDER June 5
Conditions for the most robust multidimensional poverty comparisons using counting measures

MERIT June 7
ENHANCING THE CAPACITY OF PRIVATE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (PFIs) IN AFRICA FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, CLEAN AND LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES

INRA June 8-9
UNU-WIDER Seminar: Donors, Democracy and Development: Unraveling the Impact of Aid in Africa. Jointly hosted with the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana.

WIDER June 8
Presentation: ‘Urbanization and Development in Asia: Multidimensional Perspectives’, research findings from the UNU-WIDER project on Development in an Urban World directed by Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

WIDER June 16
Book Launch: Economies in Transition: The Long-Run View. Edited by Gérard Roland. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. To be held in London, UK

WIDER June 19
Territorial Governance and Planning in the new Egypt # from centralized dictatorship to decentralization?

MERIT June 21
Will strong families return? Family welfare and the incomplete gender revolution

MERIT June 28
Fixed cost, variable cost and the markup

MERIT June 28
Social citizenship rights: Inequality and exclusion

MERIT June 28
Light and shade of multidimensional indexes: how methodological choices impact on empirical results.

MERIT June 29
Global Forum on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education will be held in Nagasaki on 10-11 August, 2012.

ISP August 10-11
Research Tutorials ESPP yr2-3-4

MERIT September 11
7th Annual Conference of the EPIP Association: IP in motion. Opening up IP?

MERIT September 27-28

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Announcements

CFP: 6th International Workshop on Foundations and Techniques for Open Source Software Certification (OpenCert 2012)

IIST October 3
Call for papers: Journal of Cleaner Production

IAS May 11
Call for Papers: UNU-WIDER Conference on Climate Change and Development Policy - The conference will be held 28-29 September, 2012 in Helsink, Finland. The submission deadline for the Call for Papers is 10 June 2012.

WIDER April 24
Call for Papers: Measuring Globalisation: An International Workshop, Maastricht, 22-23 November 2012

CRIS April 20
Call for presentations for UN-CECAR renewable energy conference

ISP April 18
Call for Papers: International Entrepreneurship in the New Global Economy

MERIT April 16
Call for the Expression of Interest into UNU-INRA Registry of Researchers (RORs)

INRA April 16
Double degree PhD Programme in ICT for Sustainable Development

IIST April 6
Call for application: WASCAL Master programmes

EHS March 29
Call for Applications: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar and UNU-CRIS Summer Doctoral School on Latin American, European and Comparative Regionalism, Quito, 23-27 July 2012

CRIS March 27
Call for Applications: RISC/CRIS Summer School and Research Symposium: Analyzing Regional Social Cohesion: Theoretical and Methodological Training for Advanced Research, University of Luxembourg, 2-7 July 2012

CRIS March 26
WASCAL project: Apply now for doctoral scholarships

EHS March 23
Call for Applicants: Poverty and Exclusion of Children and Youth Programme

MERIT March 20
Application deadline extended for master's degree programme in Sustainability, Development, and Peace

ISP March 9
Apply online: MSc in Environmental Governance

IAS February 29
Call for Papers: Entrepreneurship and Happiness

MERIT February 16
Call for RCE applications 2012

IAS February 10
Call for papers: Earth System Governance Tokyo Conference 2013

IAS February 8
2nd and Final Announcement: UNU-INRA Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) 2012

INRA February 1
World Economic History conference: Call for papers on African entrepreneurship

MERIT January 12
First Announcement: UNU-INRA Visiting Scholars Program 2012

INRA January 4
Postgraduate Courses on Building Resilience to Climate Change - Spring 2012 (20 February to 23 March 2012)

ISP December 20
Applications are now available: JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme

ISP December 8
Call for Papers: GR:EEN Workshops, 26-27 March 2012 (extended deadline)

CRIS December 6
Call for applications - PhD Block Course 2012 in Bonn, Germany

EHS December 2

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Employment

Project Assistant — Water–Health Nexus - Personnel Service Agreement (Deadline: 2012-06-01)

INWEH May 7
Internship Vacancy Announcement

IAS May 2
Administrative Assistant - GS-4 (Deadline: 2012-05-25)

IIGH April 30
Research Associate - Personnel Service Agreement (Deadline: 2012-05-31)

WIDER April 30
Research Associate - Personnel Service Agreement (Deadline: 2012-05-31)

WIDER April 30
Research Associate - Personnel Service Agreement (Deadline: 2012-05-16)

ISP April 18
Special Assistant to the Vice-Rector of UNU and Director of UNU-IAS - PSA (Deadline: 2012-05-18)

IAS April 17
Outreach and Web Content Coordinator - Contractor (Deadline: 2012-05-06)

ISP April 12
Open Faculty Position in ICT4D - P3 - (Deadline: 2012-04-27)

IIST March 26
Internship Vacancy Announcement

IAS March 26
Research Fellow - P-3 (Deadline: 2012-04-27)

IIST March 7
Project Manager (Regional Institutions, Adaptation & Insurance Project) - PSA (Deadline: 2012-03-25)

EHS February 28
ICT Support Engineer - PSA (Deadline: 2012-03-31)

IIGH February 27
Research Fellow (Information Technology in Healthcare) - P-4 (Deadline extended: 2012-03-31)

IIGH February 24
Production Editor - PSA (Deadline: open until the position is filled)

CENTRE February 23
Head of the Operating Unit, Ishikawa/Kanazawa - PSA (Deadline: 2012-03-19)

IAS February 16
Information Systems Engineer - PSA (Deadline: open until the position is filled)

CENTRE February 14
Director of UNU-IIGH - D-1 (Deadline: 2012-03-31)

IIGH February 7
Director of UNU-MERIT - D-1 (Deadline: 2012-03-31)

MERIT February 7
Internship Vacancy Announcement

IAS February 6
Receptionist - PSA (Deadline: 2012-03-02)

IIGH February 2
UNU-CRIS is looking for a research intern UNESCO-UNU Chair on Regional Integration, Migration and Free Movement of People (Ref. 2012)

CRIS January 20
Research Fellow (Land and Water Resources) - PSA (Deadline: 2012-01-31)

INRA January 4
Research Fellow (Curriculum Development and Training) - PSA (Deadline: 2012-01-31)

INRA January 4
Programme Officer (Integrated Water Resources Management) - PSA (Deadline: 2012-01-30)

CENTRE December 27

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Videos

Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing

Toward Building Better Partnerships for Creating a Sustainable Society with the Momentum of Rio+20

11 March in Context: Human Security Perspectives

Ecosystem Services from Satoyama, Satochi, and Satoumi Landscapes (Part 3)