Advancing Peacebuilding from the Ground up

For many years, scholars and practitioners have been struggling with problems of local ownership in international organizations-led peacebuilding. Despite the discourse surrounding giving ownership to local communities, top-down approaches prevail in practice and often lead to counterproductive outcomes. Ethnographic fieldwork has proven that international organizsations could achieve a better understanding of local experiential perspectives on conflict and peace. Here, we point to key features of local peace and suggest how international organizations could better incorporate peaceful local agency, cope with power imbalances and advance strategies for peacebuilding from the ground up

Marine fish, local ecological knowledge, and the Species at Risk Act in Canada: lessons from a case study of three species of wolfish

At a time when commercial fish stocks are overexploited around the globe, it is paramount that measures are taken to protect those species most at risk. Many countries throughout the world have legislation in place to assess and protect species in danger of extinction. In Canada, departments associated with the Species at Risk Act (SARA) and members of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Species in Canada (COSEWIC) work in conjunction to assess and protect species at risk. But this was not always the case. Although COSEWIC was created in 1977, SARA was not passed until 2003. Prior to 2003, COSEWIC could designate indigenous wildlife species in Canada as at risk, but there was no legal mechanism in place to support action in response to such a listing

Associação do marcador molecular LEPR1 A>G com características de integridade óssea em frangos de corte.

Projeto/Plano de Ação: 02.10.06.00

Associação de um marcador molecular no gene da Grelina com características de integridade óssea em frangos de corte.

Projeto/Plano de Ação: 06.09.06.001

Prospecção de SNPs em um fragmento do gene da osteonpontina em frangos de corte.

Projeto/Plano de Ação: 02.10.06.003

Association of the A211G polymorphism in the bone sialoprotein gene with skeletal structure in a paternal broiler line.

Projeto/Plano de Ação: 02.10.06.003

Prospecção de SNPs no gene calbidina e distribuição genotípica do polimorfismo CALB A>G em uma linhagem de frangos de corte.

Projeto/Plano de Ação: 02.10.06.003