http://info.worldbank.org/etools/bspan/ B-SPAN is a webcasting service that presents World Bank seminars, workshops, and conferences on a variety of sustainable development and poverty reduction issues via streaming video. en-us 2007 The World Bank Group, All Rights Reserved. bspan@worldbank.org bspan@worldbank.org http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2315&EID=1033 Parliaments are one of the primary institutions of any system of democratic governance, and they also provide natural forums for resolving differences in conflictaffected societies. The launch of the book, Parliaments as Peacebuilders in Conflict Affected Countries, which took place at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C. on May 20th, 2008, brought authors and experts together to discuss these issues. The book is the result of a collaboration between the World Bank Institute (WBI), the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and the Government of Finland. B-SPAN Law and Justice Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Tuesday, May 20, 2008 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2315&EID=1033 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2205&EID=999 Islamic economics is a comprehensive and independent economic theory which defines economics in accordance with Islamic law. It is a new discipline in universities worldwide and is thus constrained by the lack of qualified teachers or instructors. The series Introduction to Islamic Economics held from September to December of 2007, and sponsored by the Islamic Development Banks Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), seeks to introduce students to the fundamental principles of the discipline, as well as how Islamic economics fits into the broader context of the rapidly integrating global economy. B-SPAN Law and Justice Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Tuesday, October 23, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2205&EID=999 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2171&EID=973 Although we might not always consider it, a well developed and appropriate legal framework is a very necessary component in the fight against HIV/AIDS. On September 12, 2007, the authors of the report Legal Aspects for HIV and AIDS A Guide for Policy and Law Reform came together at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC, to present and discuss the role of law in the fight against this devastating pandemic. B-SPAN Law and Justice Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Wednesday, September 12, 2007 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=2171&EID=973 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1953&EID=902 The idea that health care, education, and a basic livelihood are rights, for which institutions and public officials should be held accountable, is increasingly influential in international development. Many international and bilateral development agencies now regularly use human rights treaties and covenants in their development work. At the country level, the majority of national constitutions make health care or education a right of citizens. On October 27, 2006, the World Banks Development Research Group (DECRG) held a seminar titled Social and Economic Rights What Difference Do They Make? to examine how these rights are affecting development outcomes. B-SPAN Law and Justice Friday, October 27, 2006 Friday, October 27, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1953&EID=902 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1952&EID=902 The idea that health care, education, and a basic livelihood are rights, for which institutions and public officials should be held accountable, is increasingly influential in international development. Many international and bilateral development agencies now regularly use human rights treaties and covenants in their development work. At the country level, the majority of national constitutions make health care or education a right of citizens. On October 27, 2006, the World Banks Development Research Group (DECRG) held a seminar titled Social and Economic Rights What Difference Do They Make? to examine how these rights are affecting development outcomes. B-SPAN Law and Justice Friday, October 27, 2006 Friday, October 27, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1952&EID=902 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1951&EID=902 The idea that health care, education, and a basic livelihood are rights, for which institutions and public officials should be held accountable, is increasingly influential in international development. Many international and bilateral development agencies now regularly use human rights treaties and covenants in their development work. At the country level, the majority of national constitutions make health care or education a right of citizens. On October 27, 2006, the World Banks Development Research Group (DECRG) held a seminar titled Social and Economic Rights What Difference Do They Make? to examine how these rights are affecting development outcomes. B-SPAN Law and Justice Friday, October 27, 2006 Friday, October 27, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1951&EID=902 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1950&EID=902 The idea that health care, education, and a basic livelihood are rights, for which institutions and public officials should be held accountable, is increasingly influential in international development. Many international and bilateral development agencies now regularly use human rights treaties and covenants in their development work. At the country level, the majority of national constitutions make health care or education a right of citizens. On October 27, 2006, the World Banks Development Research Group (DECRG) held a seminar titled Social and Economic Rights What Difference Do They Make? to examine how these rights are affecting development outcomes. B-SPAN Law and Justice Friday, October 27, 2006 Friday, October 27, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1950&EID=902 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1903&EID=881 Although African conflict has long been recognized as an impediment to successful development, programs for disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) have not always succeeded in preventing nations from slipping back into a cycle of violence. Following a 2005 UNsponsored conference in Sierra Leone on DDR programs, a followup conference will take place in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2007. In preparation for that conference, national counterparts of the MultiCountry Demobilization and Reintegration Program (MDRP) from the Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, and Angola, as well as Belgium and the UN, joined to provide input and share suggestions. Bruno Donat, Communications Officer for the MDRP Secretariat at the World Bank, and Maria Correia, Program Manager for the MDRP Secretariat at the World Bank, facilitated the meeting, chaired by Patrick Hayford, Director of the UN Office of the Special Adviser for Africa. B-SPAN Law and Justice Thursday, August 24, 2006 Thursday, August 24, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1903&EID=881 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1752&EID=843 As much as HIV/AIDS is about treatment and prevention, it is also about the secondorder effects that precipitate its spread, such as gender disparities. In many countries where HIV/AIDS has become epidemic, the problem can be linked to limited legal rights for women. In this March 31, 2006 videoconference, chaired by Gift Manase, a Health Economist for the World Bank Institute, activists and policy makers from several African countries met to discuss how they have approached the gender and legal aspects of HIV/AIDS. B-SPAN Law and Justice Friday, March 31, 2006 Friday, March 31, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1752&EID=843 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1751&EID=843 As much as HIV/AIDS is about treatment and prevention, it is also about the secondorder effects that precipitate its spread, such as gender disparities. In many countries where HIV/AIDS has become epidemic, the problem can be linked to limited legal rights for women. In this March 31, 2006 videoconference, chaired by Gift Manase, a Health Economist for the World Bank Institute, activists and policy makers from several African countries met to discuss how they have approached the gender and legal aspects of HIV/AIDS. B-SPAN Law and Justice Friday, March 31, 2006 Friday, March 31, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1751&EID=843 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1699&EID=819 The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) serves as a leading gathering for knowledge regarding the workings of development and takes place twice per year. For the theme of Beyond Transition, ABCDE met in St. Petersburg, Russia, on January 18–19, 2006. This final session of the conference focused on Judiciary Foundations of a Market System and was chaired by JeanChristophe Bas, Development Policy Dialogue Manager for the World Bank. B-SPAN Law and Justice Thursday, January 19, 2006 Thursday, January 19, 2006 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1699&EID=819 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1642&EID=794 When seeking to reconstruct postconflict nations, it is useful to understand how those conflicts began and how they played out. In contrast to older economic thinking, which viewed war as an external event similar to a natural disaster, it is now possible to examine the distinct economic causes and consequences of war. In a book launch for Understanding Civil War Evidence and Analysis, organized by the InfoShop at the World Bank headquarters on November 8, 2005, the editor and a contributing author presented a collection of 16 civil war case studies. B-SPAN Law and Justice Tuesday, November 08, 2005 Tuesday, November 08, 2005 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1642&EID=794 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1641&EID=793 The knowledge economy has become credited with an increasing role in the worlds productivity. Because of its importance, the Knowledge for Development Group of the World Bank Institute organized an international conference on Intellectual Capital for Communities in partnership with the University of Marne laVallée. Taking place at the World Bank Paris office on June 20, 2005, the final panel of the day was chaired by JeanEric Aubert, Lead Specialist at the World Bank Institute, and included as panelists Ahmed Bounfour, professor at the University of MarnelaVallée; Graham Vickery, Head of Unit at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); Oluf Nielsen, Scientific Officer at the European Commission; Dominique Guellec, Chief Economist at the European Patent Office; Leif Edvinsson, adjunct Professor at Lund University; and Guenter Koch, Chairman of Execupery. B-SPAN Law and Justice Monday, June 20, 2005 Monday, June 20, 2005 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1641&EID=793 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1621&EID=786 As Kaz Kuroda states in this Global Issues seminar, the issue of conflict and development goes beyond the realm of economics. Many developing countries are not only ravaged by market problems and corruption, but also by the problem of violent conflict. Hosted by External Affairs at the World Banks headquarters on November 9, 2005, Global Economy Conflict and Development attempts to introduce students to the problems of helping developing countries, during and postconflict. Students joined the lecture by videoconference from American University of Beirut, University of Amsterdam, University of Ghana, University of Essex, University of Belgium, University of Sarbonne, Kent State University, University of Sussex, and several Washington area universities physically present. B-SPAN Law and Justice Wednesday, November 09, 2005 Wednesday, November 09, 2005 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1621&EID=786 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1619&EID=786 Beginning with an acknowledgement of the corruption problem by former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, the Bank has worked for more than a decade to study and ultimately limit the effects of corruption on development. This lecture for the Global Issues Seminar Series, organized by External Affairs at the Headquarters of the World Bank, addresses the issue of corruption at a basic level. Lecturers for this session included Dr. Vinay Bhargava, Director of External Affairs, and Dr. Sanjay Pradhan, Sector Director of Public Sector Governance, from the Bank, and Dr. Hans Schenk, Director of the Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute. Students joined the videoconference from University of Amsterdam, University of Sofia, Rhodes University, Essex University, American University, the George Washington University, Georgetown University, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, and Virginia Polytechnic and State University. B-SPAN Law and Justice Wednesday, November 02, 2005 Wednesday, November 02, 2005 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1619&EID=786 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1516&EID=711 This years Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Conference took place on April 19 and 20, 2005. Entitled Growth Diagnostics, the conference continued with last years theme of identifying growth strategies, but emphasized practical implementation of growthrelated concepts. The sessions drew upon specific, illustrative country cases to highlight key issues that are of practical policy concern for the World Bank. B-SPAN Law and Justice Wednesday, April 20, 2005 Wednesday, April 20, 2005 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1516&EID=711 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1261&EID=629 The Judicial Reform session, chaired by Mr. Roberto Dañino, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank, shared successes and challenges that policymakers have faced in their respective justice systems. The Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation shared his countrys experience in strengthening its legal system, elaborating on the challenges it faced. Guatemalas Supreme Court Justice shared the challenges of modernizing his countrys judiciary in a postconflict environment, and provided suggestions on how the culture of justice could be improved. The Minister of State for Good Governance of Rwanda discussed the governance and interinstitutional aspects of promoting reform and improving institutions. Finally, the Chief Justice of the Philippines commented on lessons learned from a developing country perspective. Mr. James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, presented a summation of the speakers presentations. B-SPAN Law and Justice Tuesday, May 25, 2004 Tuesday, May 25, 2004 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1261&EID=629 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1006&EID=521 Over the last decade, Tajikistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan have supported the development of equal opportunity legislative frameworks to strengthen constitutional equality provisions that are widely considered to be insufficient. There is growing recognition that strengthening existing provisions will require additional measures. In particular, this includeds laws to promote equal opportunity, protection of women and men from sexbased discrimination, and mechanisms to ensure effective implementation of laws and related policies. As a result, the countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan have drafted equal opportunity laws which are now in various stages of development. In January 2003, state guarantees for ensuring gender equality were approved by parliament in Kyrgyz Republic. The World Bank and UNDP have sponsored a series of distance learning dialogues on implementing gender equality legislation in Central Asia. The events have supported knowledge exchange on program, policy, and legislative issues at the country level and provided an opportunity for participants to collaborate and develop solutions to problems they face in their countries. B-SPAN Law and Justice Wednesday, December 10, 2003 Wednesday, December 10, 2003 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=1006&EID=521 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=849&EID=440 Brian David Levy, a sector manager in the World Banks Urban unit, began the discussion B-SPAN Law and Justice Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Wednesday, August 27, 2003 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=849&EID=440 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=762&EID=387 The secretariats established under various multilateral environmental (ME) agreements play a crucial role in the achievement of the objectives of such agreements. Bharat Desai, an associate professor at the School of International Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, examined selected legal issues concerning the status and functions of the secretariats. David Freestone, chief counsel in the World Banks Legal Departments Environment and International Law network provided introduction remarks for Professor Desai, who said his research reviews the legal relationship between the secretariats of the multilateral environmental agreements and their host institutions. He noted there is also a relationship between the development of law and the institutional mechanisms, and institutions are products of the law making process. Desai suggested many states have been comfortable with the ad hoc legal approach to conducting multilateral environmental agreements in the past. In the past 30 years, some 300 MEs have been conducted, and the process, usually catering to a specific environmental issue, has been scattered with no central approach. He characterized the process as an institutionalized international cooperation. His interest comes from examining the process in which these agreements come together. These agreements seek to address state behavior, Desai said, but they also establish thresholds that dont regulate every incident of environmental degradation. B-SPAN Law and Justice Thursday, July 17, 2003 Thursday, July 17, 2003 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/BSPAN/PresentationView.asp?PID=762&EID=387