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CIFP has its origins in a prototype geopolitical database developed by the Canadian Department of National Defence in 1991. The prototype project called GEOPOL covered a wide range of political, economic, social, military, and environmental indicators through the medium of a rating system. In 1997, under the guidance of Andre Ouellete, John Patterson , Tony Kellett and Paul Sutherland, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade decided to adopt some elements of GEOPOL to meet the needs of policy makers, the academic community and the private sector. The CIFP project as it became known has since then operated under the guidance of principal investigator David Carment of Carleton University and has received funding from DFAIT, IDRC and CIDA. The project represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world.
The cross-national data generated through CIFP was intended to have a variety of applications in government departments, NGOs, and by users in the private sector. The data set provides at-a-glance global overviews, issue-based perspectives and country performance measures. Currently, the data set includes measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic stress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages.
The CIFP database currently includes statistical data in the above issue areas, in the form of over one hundred performance indicators for 196 countries, spanning fifteen years (1985 to 2000) for most indicators. These indicators are drawn from a variety of open sources, including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and the Minorities at Risk and POLITY IV data sets from the University of Maryland.
Currently, with the generous support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), CIFP has begun work on a pilot project in partnership with the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response (FEWER). The pilot project is intended to establish a framework for communications, information gathering and sharing, and operational coordination between CIFP, the FEWER Secretariat, and FEWER network members in the field, and to work towards a "good practice" conflict early warning system involving the various members of the FEWER network.
http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/
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Located just 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta in the tree-lined suburban neighborhood of Druid Hills, Emory University is positioned along the Clifton Corridor, which also includes the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society.
Emory University is home to nine major academic divisions, numerous centers for advanced study, and a host of prestigious affiliated institutions. In addition to Emory College, the University encompasses a graduate school of arts and sciences; professional schools of medicine, theology, law, nursing, public health, and business; and Oxford College, a two-year undergraduate division on the original campus of Emory in Oxford, Ga.
Emory was founded at Oxford by the Methodist Church in 1836. Led by President
Tel: (404) 420-5100
Address: One Copenhill 453 Freedom Parkway Atlanta, GA 30307
http://www.emory.edu/
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ClandestineRadio.com is the only online portal dedicated to the study of clandestine and subversive radio - a field where politics, diplomacy, espionage and broadcast media collide. Clandestine broadcasting is a highly effective weapon in the arsenal of psychological warfare, which, when analyzed, can assist observers to cut through the fog of war and ascertain the strength and capabilities of opposition groups as well as actual on-the-ground military strategies. For the casual Web surfer this site may seem exotic and, at times, conspiratorial. Regular and "professional" users, however, will find an intelligence bonanza.
Launched in 1996 ClandestineRadio.com has developed into a resource regularly used by radio monitors, academics and historians, journalists, and military and intelligence analysts to track psywar developments across the globe. We have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, US News & World Report, and on BBC, Fox News, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, CBC, and numerous international media outlets. Issues of our bi-weekly Clandestine Radio Watch reports are included in the digital archives of the U.S. Library of Congress, and Washington, DC's Newseum, which re-opens in 2006, will feature excerpts of our sound library in its permanent exhibits. Global Crisis Watch, our news podcast, launched in May 2005.
ClandestineRadio.com is a non-partisan and international project headquartered in Washington, DC, and Germany with principal correspondents in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Media inquiries are welcome.
http://www.clandestineradio.com/
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Cuttington University College, located 120 miles north of Monrovia, is the oldest private, coeducational, four-year, degree-granting institution in sub-Saharan Africa. It issues degrees in the liberal arts and a number of technical studies. It has educated generations of leaders for the nation of Liberia and indeed for West Africa. Its roots lie deep within the history of the nation, the relationship between Liberia and the United States, and the Episcopal Church.
Tel: 011-231-(0)6-227-413
Fax: 011-231-(0)6-226-059
Address: P.O. Box 10-0277 1000 Monrovia 10 Liberia, West Africa
http://www.cuttington.org/
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As Liberia approaches the next millennium, many Liberian organizations and groupings are becoming incubators of Attilas. By incubating brutes,who believe in force, those institutions are clearly becoming breeding grounds for future tyrannies in Liberia.
This sad trend would impel any citizen, or any Liberian grouping, to articulate a newer, more progressive voice on politics and public policy. As our political experience evolves, so does the need for a renaissance of a more aggressive, principle-centered social activism. Such new organization must understand that the struggle to save Liberia cannot be viewed any longer in narrow political, economic and educational terms. Ethnic identities, religions and lifestyles also comprise the debate.
There is a need for a structure that can "speak truth to power" about the rigid dehumanization which still plagues the truly dispossessed. A moral and ethical responsibility which links those of us in the U.S.A. with the destitute who struggle to survive the pain and desperation afflicted upon them by cheats and knaves in Liberia. There is also a need to understand the outrage of young Liberians, especially ex-fighters, who desperately seek work and self-respect in postwar Liberia.
Bringing to the fore such debasing reality is the business and raison d'etre of the Coalition of Progressive Liberians in the Americas (COPLA). This is the test of our political resolve and existence.
COPLA is duty-bound to construct a new strategy of politics. It resolves to articulate bold and creative agenda for a fundamental restructuring of society. We are committed to ensure that Liberia achieves multiethnic democracy and social justice.
The organization brings to the front of its activities the murky history of inhumanity in Liberia. In our search for the substantivity of a complete democracy, we shall also denounce the continuing bastardization of our people by professional bandits.
COPLA disbelieves in toppling any Liberian government, violently, but promises to keep any government’s "feet to the fire," if the latter does the wrong thing. Conversely, COPLA will applaud any good done in the interest of the masses.
Please join us to reconcile, rebuild and resurrect Liberia.
http://www.copla.org/index.html
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