The United Nations and Democracy in Africa

Zoë Wilson completed her Doctorate in Political Science at Dalhousie University (Canada) in 2004 and is a specialist in local implementation of global norms and standards. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Civil Society in South Africa. Recent articles appear in Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and the edited volume: Gender, Complex Emergencies, and Peacekeeping:National and International Feminist Perspectives.

1. Power, Politics and Doomed Projects 2. Policies and Institutions: 'Unpopular Among Some - or Even a Majority - of the Population' 3. Human Development Reports: 'Universally Valued by People of the World Over' 4. The Millennium Road Map: 'Urging States,' 'Encouraging Governments' and 'Working within the United Nations' 5. From Global Ideas to Regional Road Maps: 'Whereby a Whole Community... Settles for a Wrong Choice of Priorities' 6. Country Level: 'Systemic Dissemination of Information, so as to Promote Universal Understanding...' 7. Wishful Thinking, Willful Blindness and Artful Amnesia 8. Paradoxes and Dilemmas of Institutional Change: Human Rights and Livelihoods in Rural War-torn Angola 9. Minor Discourses and the Performance of Irony