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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund convened a group of 33 early childhood development and education experts, including scholars, practitioners, and advocates for a symposium held at The Pocantico Center in November 2001.  This report summarizes the presentations of the meeting's featured speakers.

A report based on a forum about universal access to pre-kindergarten programs.

A report by Roberta Brandes Gratz for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in cooperation with the Conservation fund.

This paper argues for an integrated grantmaking strategy for world security, stewardship, and the peaceful management of change. 

Inter-communal conflict within states in the 1990s has led to a troubling new phenomenon in international security: small-arms and light-weapon warfare, spurred by a correlation between conflict and poverty. By Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael Klare.

In early 1998, the Fund asked Amir Pasic, the deputy director of the Project on World Security, to prepare a review of trends in security grantmaking and a summary of the major security-related programs of other foundations.

Author Stephen John Stedman concludes that there are a range of options available to international actors seeking to mediate these conflicts, but the attempt to do good, if poorly planned and lacking in strategy, can also be harmful.

This report argues that public health surveillance for emerging diseases and preparedness for biological terrorism are strongly related.  By Christopher F. Chyba.

This paper offers a literature review and provides a clear assessment of recent trends in poverty, inequality, and conflict in developing and post-Communist countries; their relation to economic growth; and the links between these trends.  By Joan M. Nelson.