Columns (international)
25 February 2022 - Avoiding further escalation in Ukraine | Vatican News | Catholic scholars offer their contributions on the quest for peace: in this article, Raul Caruso, Professor of Peace Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, offers his perspective on how the world can help avoid further escalation in Ukraine.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2022-02/avoiding-further-escalation-in-ukraine.html
14 december 2020 - How The Private Sector Can Contribute To Peace – The Case of Benefit Companies | Impakter | [...] The mismatch between social values and revenues does not need to be an unchangeable dynamic. Indeed, companies can play a role adding to their deed of partnership the objective of producing also social and common benefit. Why? Companies have to be aware of the fact that they exist, operate, and scale-up within a given territory, whose wellbeing and prosperity could be considered as an asset for them as well. [...]
https://impakter.com/how-the-private-sector-can-contribute-to-peace-the-case-of-benefit-companies/
5 may 2014 - Climate change and conflict in Indonesia | SIPRI Blog | [...] we analysed the link between climate change and conflict in 14 Indonesian provinces in the period 1990–2003 [...] Stated broadly, our work suggests that some inconclusive results in the literature on the climate change–violence nexus could suffer from failing to consider the specificities of different crops. The economic relevance and type of the dominant agricultural output—be it rice, wheat or another crop—changes across countries. Crops are heterogeneous in terms of growing season, cultivation technology and reaction to climate variability [...]
https://www.sipri.org/commentary/blog/2014/climate-change-and-conflict-indonesia
19 july 2013 - Can UN troops influence economic development? The case of South Sudan | SIPRI blog | [...] The debate about the role and effectiveness of peacekeeping forces around the world is never-ending. The primary stated goal of United Nations peace operations is to enforce peace amongst fighting groups. It might also be claimed that the presence of UN troops—or ‘blue helmets’—leads to a ‘security spillover’ which has a benign impact on productive activities. In general, insecurity discourages economic growth and actual wars are extremely detrimental for economic development. Furthermore, we know that post-conflict economic recovery is actually a fundamental driver of stable peacefulness. Therefore, the possible effect of UN peacekeeping troops on economic recovery is a crucial issue for both scholars and policymakers. [...]