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White Paper
- Author(s):
- Jena O'Brien
- Date Created:
- 2023-05-16
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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- Author(s):
- Jena O'Brien
- Abstract:
Lessons drawn from experiences in design and implementation of peace agreements, while varying from one context to the next, can be valuable in negotiation and mediation processes. This policy brief considers three key lessons regarding international support for peacemaking, political participation, and the centrality of victims in peace processes. Presented in The Battle for Peace by Nobel Peace Laureate and former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, the three lessons highlighted here…
- Date Created:
- 2023-05-09
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- Public
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Master's Thesis
- Author:
- Mariama S. Dampha
- Advisory Committee:
- Yenupini Joyce Adams, Thomas J. Mustillo
- Degree Area:
- Global Affairs
- Degree:
- Master of Global Affairs
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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- Author:
- Ebaa Elkalamawi
- Advisory Committee:
- Caroline S. Hughes, Paul Perrin, Thomas Mustillo, Marie Donahue
- Degree Area:
- Global Affairs
- Degree:
- Master of Global Affairs
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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- Author(s):
- Georgina Curto
- Abstract:
This paper clarifies why bias cannot be completely mitigated in Machine Learning (ML) and proposes an end-to-end methodology to translate the ethical principle of justice and fairness into the practice of ML development as an ongoing agreement with stakeholders. The pro-ethical iterative process presented in the paper aims to challenge asymmetric power dynamics in the fairness decision making within ML design and support ML development teams to identify, mitigate and monitor bias at each step…
- Date Created:
- 2023-03-31
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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Article
- Author(s):
- Georgina Curto
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The criminalization of poverty has been widely denounced as a collective bias against the most vulnerable. NGOs and international organizations claim that the poor are blamed for their situation, are more often associated with criminal offenses than the wealthy strata of society and even incur criminal offenses simply as a result of being poor. While no evidence has been found in the literature that correlates poverty and overall criminality rates, this paper offers evidence of a collective b…
- Date Created:
- 2023-03-26
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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- Author(s):
- Georgina Curto
- Abstract:
The deceleration of global poverty reduction in the last decades suggests that traditional redistribution policies are losing their effectiveness. Alternative ways to work towards the #1 United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (poverty eradication) are required. NGOs have insistingly denounced the criminalization of poverty, and the social science literature suggests that discrimination against the poor (a phenomenon known as aporophobia could constitute a brake to the fight against pove…
- Date Created:
- 2023-03-24
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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- Author(s):
- Georgina Curto
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Policies that seek to mitigate poverty by acting on equal opportunity have been found to aggravate discrimination against the poor (aporophobia), since individuals are made responsible for not progressing in the social hierarchy. Only a minority of the poor benefit from meritocracy in this era of growing inequality, generating resentment among those who seek to escape their needy situations by trying to climb up the ladder. Through the formulation and development of an agent-based social simu…
- Date Created:
- 2023-03-24
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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- Author(s):
- Georgina Curto
- Abstract:
Among the myriad of technical approaches and abstract guidelines proposed to the topic of AI bias, there has been an urgent call to translate the principle of fairness into the operational AI reality with the involvement of social sciences specialists to analyze the context of specific types of bias, since there is not a generalizable solution. This article ofers an interdisciplinary contribution to the topic of AI and societal bias, in particular against the poor, providing a conceptual fram…
- Date Created:
- 2023-03-24
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- Public
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- Author(s):
- Paige Alexander, Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Roddy Brett, Victoria K. Holt, Louisa Lombard, Monica McWilliams, Catherine Panter-Brick, Enrica Picco, Honey Thomas, Alexander Thurston, Jason Quinn, Bisa Williams
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This brief draws on case studies of civil war to consider how sustainable peacebuilding can be practiced. The authors take the view that peace agreements mark the beginning, not the end, of a process of national reform and reconciliation in both the institutional and normative spheres. Peace agreements, when properly designed, have the potential to do more for a country than put an end to the immediate violence; they can present a turning point.
- Date Created:
- 2023-02-28
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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- Author(s):
- David Cortright, Anna Romandash
- Abstract:
The latest edition of the global Women Peace and Security Index draws on recognized data sources to measure women’s inclusion, justice, and security. From a total of 170 countries, Iraq came in at 166. Within the Middle East and North Africa region, Iraq ranked third lowest, with only Syria and Yemen behind. The position of women within Iraqi society has deteriorated rapidly since the 1991 Gulf War. Women and girls were disproportionately affected by the economic consequences of sanctions. Th…
- Date Created:
- 2023-02-28
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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- Author(s):
- Jena O'Brien
- Date Created:
- 2023-02-24
- Record Visibility:
- Public