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Regional Developments
Justice, Reconstruction’s Foundation
Urban planning is essential to reconstruction, a regionwide priority. Essential too is a disciplined human rights approach to sustainable development. Reconstruction is an advanced-phase response to the impacts of natural, human-caused, or human-exacerbated disaster. It follows foregoing phases of “rescue,” “relief,” and “early recovery” on the More

Lessons of Urban Warfare
Since the Second World War, the countries of southwest Asia and North Africa have been battlegrounds in the sphere of U.S. and European hegemony over the territory of the former Ottoman Empire. Whether under occupation and colonization as in Palestine and Western Sahara, or through More

Arab State Development at the High-level Political Forum
The High-level Political Forum at UN Headquarters in New York, 7–16 July 2026, will be a big one for the southwest Asia and North African countries. This year, an unprecedented eight Arab states will be presenting their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) for consideration: Algeria, Bahrain, More

Systemic transformation now and forever!
A Common Political Action Agenda in Near East and North Africa (NENA)   The Food Sovereignty International Planning Committee (IPC) has for 30 years convened diverse farmers, fishers, civil society organizations, social movements, and Indigenous Peoples organizations engaged with food issues and rights of small-scale food producers. More

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