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...Kennedy School of Government, in one of many events focused on sustainability this week. The presentation, in front of a small audience at the Institute of Politics, was the second installment in a four-part “Election 101” series designed to educate students on key issues leading up to the presidential election. “It’s all about collective action,” said Jasanoff, a leading expert on the environment and climate change and a forerunner in creating environmental politics classes at a number of leading universities. The professor opened her presentation...
...annual lecture was established thanks to a gift from the McNamara family, and the lecture is to be given by an individual “seeking to illuminate key lessons from history for future policymakers seeking to avoid war and promote peace...
...failed to agree ... [and] therefore a deadlock has been declared," said the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) outside the talks venue in Harare. "There is an attempt to reduce the MDC to a meaningless position," he added, referring to the fact that Mugabe had claimed the key cabinet posts for his own party, and said this was "not acceptable to the MDC and the people of Zimbabwe." As far as Tsvangirai was concerned, that put the ball back in the hands of the African mediators: "We call upon the S.A.D.C. [the Southern African Development Community...
...rescue an economy in free fall, with unemployment at 80% and inflation out of control. Although Mbeki had managed to persuade the two leaders to share power in a Sept. 15 deal, once the discussion moved on to allocating ministries in a unity government - and taking some of the key levers of power out of the hands of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party - the process broke down. Mbeki flew back to Harare last week, hoping to save the deal, although his own authority had been reduced somewhat by the fact that he had, in the interim, been forced...
...Mugabe, under pressure from party cronies to hold the key cabinet positions for Zanu-PF, may also be betting that with more immediate concerns distracting the international community, he can push back against the power sharing without suffering too much pressure from his neighbors. Zimbabwe's only president since independence in 1980, Mugabe has taken wildly different positions since the March elections, in which the MDC won control of parliament and Tsvangirai finished first in the presidential race, although without an absolute majority. At the time, Mugabe said Zimbabweans had made a "mistake," and his security forces unleashed a wave...