Inlägg av Hans Fridlund

From Malmö to Mtskheta

26 februari, 2021

Coming back from leave is often emotional for me. I am torn between missing relatives in Malmö, and feeling excited about being back at work. My holiday stay in Sweden was prolonged as a result of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) deciding to extend leaves over Christmas amidst a spike in COVID-19 […]

Civil Society as a Critical Partner: Rule of Law and Accountability in the Liberian COVID-19 Response, Part II

15 februari, 2021

Part One of this post highlighted the importance of the rule of law in supporting crisis response in countries struggling with the effects of conflict. One of the most important rule of law principles in such settings is accountability, particularly “downward accountability”, in which state authorities focus on serving citizens dependent on them. Corruption and […]

Time for a joint vision on gender-responsive leadership

10 februari, 2021

Right before the winter break, 236 women and men from 105 different organizations and 46 countries around the world joined our International Dialogue on Gender-Responsive Leadership, to discuss an absolutely critical and often missing part of the gender equality puzzle: gender-responsive leadership. After twenty years of struggling to achieve the commitments of the global women, […]