Arab Human Development Report 2012 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
Empowerment: The Will of the People
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About the 2012 AHDR
The Arab region has embarked upon the most dynamic period of its modern history. What began as a protest in rural Tunisia has spread quickly, reaching every Arab country in its own way. It is a moment of tremendous potential for human development – and also one of great risk. The Arab Human Development Report 2012 is part of UNDP’s contribution to Arab peoples and policy-makers in the joint search for a brighter future.
Drafted by an independent team of Arab scholars, the report shows that despite the region’s progress on some areas of human development in recent decades, the current reality in the Arab region is dominated by long-standing state structures which have inhibited the empowerment of Arab individuals and communities.
In order to reverse this legacy, the report proposes a three-point agenda of empowerment, calling for a transition to more accountable and effective governing systems, a revitalization of development progress which benefits all, not only the few, and efforts to promote social cohesion at a time when pluralism and consensus have never been as needed.
In hopes that the current wave of change may be the Arab region’s best chance yet to achieve its potential, the AHDR 2012 aims to foster dialogue on options for harnessing the will of the people for the empowerment of Arab societies.
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Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries
The fifth volume in the series of Arab Human Development Reports sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme and independently authored by intellectuals and scholars from Arab countries.
The report argues that human security is a prerequisite for human development, and that the widespread absence of human security in Arab countries undermines people's options.
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