August 27

Fighting For Justice: A Lifetime Of Political And Social Activism By Jay Naidoo. Centre For Conflict Resolutionon:

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THE CENTRE FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA INVITES YOU AND MEMBERS OF YOUR ORGANISATION TO A SEMINAR DISCUSSION OF THE BOOK
 
Fighting for Justice: A Lifetime of Political and Social Activism

by Jay Naidoo

 

AUTHOR AND SPEAKER:
   

Mr Jay Naidoo

Director and Chairman

 J&J Group Development

 

DISCUSSANT:
   

Professor Martin Legassick

Emeritus Professor

History Department

University of the Western

 

DATE:
   

Tuesday, 7 September 2010

TIME:
   

17h30 to 19h00

VENUE:
   

Centre for the Book, 62 Queen Victoria Street, Gardens, Cape Town

RSVP:
   

Lavenia Benjamin

TEL:
   

(021) 689 1005

E-MAIL:
   

lavenia@ccr.uct.ac.za

WEBSITE:
   

www.ccr.org.za

 

All are welcome and entry is free.

 

The book Fighting for Justice: A Lifetime of Political and Social Activism by Jay Naidoo

will be on sale at the event.

 

Kindly RSVP for seating purposes.
August 27

The Oil And The Glory, A Blog On The Geopolitics Of Energy, By Steve Levine

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http://oilandglory.foreignpolicy.com/
 

The Oil and the Glory looks at geopolitics through the lens of energy -- a frame of reference as important as politics, war, and economics to understanding why countries behave the way they do. The blog is a must read for those attempting to understand the course of events from Abuja to Baku to Houston, asking the big questions about the world’s energy supply and the countries whose fates are intertwined with it.

Reporting on the latest boardroom deals and oil-patch catastrophes, the pursuit of the resources of today and the technologies of the future, The Oil and the Glory is meant to invite debate and discussion. We welcome suggestions and tips.



Author Steve LeVine is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy and the author of The Oil and the Glory, a history of oil told through the 1990s-2000s oil rush on the Caspian Sea. He is also an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where he teaches energy and security in the Security Studies Program.

 

LeVine, also the author of Putin's Labyrinth, a profile of Russia through the lives and deaths of six Russians, is a former chief foreign affairs writer for BusinessWeek and Central Asia and Caucasus correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, based in Almaty and Baku. He previously covered the same region for the New York Times and Newsweek. From 1988-1991, he was Pakistan-Afghanistan correspondent for Newsweek. From 1985-1988, he was Manila correspondent for Newsday.

 

 
August 27

Failed States Index 2010

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The 10 states that fill out the top ranks of this year's Failed States Index -- the world's most vulnerable nations -- are a sadly familiar bunch. Shattered Somalia has been the No. 1 failed state for three years running, and none of the current top 10 has shown much improvement, if any, since FOREIGN POLICY and the Fund for Peace began publishing the index in 2005. Altogether, the top 10 slots have rotated among just 15 unhappy countries in the index's six years. State failure, it seems, is a chronic condition.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/06/21/the_failed_states_index_2010