Posts Tagged 'employment'

Terrorism and Development

Terrorism and Development

McLeod Group Blog, March 26, 2015

What’s the first best weapon to combat terrorism?

Good jobs-lots of them.

What’s the second best weapon?

Knowledge:  continuous, detailed analysis of the complex root causes of radicalization and terrorism that informs the fullest range of actions by governments.

Yes, we admit here to ‘committing sociology’ (an idiotic phrase if there ever was one).  For the record, we also regularly commit anthropology, and political science, and economics, and community development, and, especially, gender analysis.

It could be that truly ...

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The Economy, Jobs and a Smart Foreign Policy

McLeod Group Blog, March 18, 2015

Every election since the beginning of time, it seems, has been about the economy. And a large part of that is about jobs. When politicians talk about jobs, they usually means jobs at home, but in today’s world, creating jobs across the street may depend on helping to create jobs across the world—not jobs that reduce Canadian opportunities, as so often has been the case, but jobs that do the opposite.

Lost in the din of ...

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