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New Senior Research Assistants at UNU Institute in Macau
With Economics, Politics and Technology background, new researchers Don Rodney Junio and Dhaval Modi will bring fresh knowledge to UNU Macau.
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Cradled by Conflict: Child Involvement with Armed Groups in Contemporary Conflict
This report seeks to understand how and why children become associated with, are used, and exit non-state armed groups in contemporary conflict.
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Maria Jouste
Maria Jouste is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER.
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Carlos Gradín
Carlos is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER).
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Pia Rattenhuber
Pia Rattenhuber is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She has previously worked for OECD (Department of Labour and Social Affairs), the German Ministry of Economics and the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin).
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Workshop Explores Bioenergy Development in Japan
UNU-IAS co-hosted a workshop on Future Perspectives of Bioenergy Development in Japan: An Alternative Scenario with Domestic Supply.
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Children and Extreme Violence: Cradled by Conflict
Understanding child recruitment by armed groups, including terrorist organizations, and identifying obstacles to releasing children from such groups.
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The Flip from Fraught Use to Assumed Mobile Use
UNU Macau researcher Juhee Kang delivered a talk based on her research about the mobile use among North Korean women in South Korea.
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Gender Equality Featured by UNU Sustainable Development Explorer
Led by UNU Macau, the EQUALS Research Group is an important research partnership addressing SDG#5.
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Workshop Details Findings on Global Important Agricultural Heritage Systems in East Asia
The event was held as part of a UNU-IAS project on monitoring and evaluation methods for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.