Bio
Saleem H. Ali is director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland Australia.
Featured Work
FEB 17, 2011 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Innovating Sovereign Wealth Funds
As we struggle to tackle financial and ecological sustainability, sovereign wealth funds such as in Alaska deserve far greater attention for positive adoption.
NOV 24, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Science Diplomacy in South Asia
The United States should play a more active role in building trust between India and Pakistan around nonpolitical issues such as science and sustainability.
JUN 23, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Simulating Environmental Diplomacy
Incorporating environmental issues in conflict resolution may have positive psychological effects on the willingness of parties to cooperate.
FEB 24, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Confronting Culture in Congo
It is high time the international community confront the elephant in the room when talking about Congo and violence against women worldwide -- culture.
JAN 19, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Developing a Reconciliation Indicator
A composite indicator is needed to substantiate the impact of community-led reconciliation processes and to better target sustainable development aid in post-conflict zones.
OCT 9, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Minding Our Minerals
Certain resources are destined for depletion if they become locked into built infrastructure or recovery costs prove too high. But this could all change if ...
JUL 2, 2009 • Article
The Two-headed Problem of Asian Hydropolitics: Security and Scarcity
With the Tibetan plateau serving as a third pole of available water, and the rift widening between China and the Dalai Lama's government in exile, ...
AUG 11, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Greening of Islamic Politics
For centuries, Muslims considered Indonesia to be Islam's most distant outpost. Yet this diffuse country with multiple identities is leading the way in the greening ...
MAR 12, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Oil and Turmoil
Despite oil's tortured history, it must not be summarily dismissed as a cause of turmoil in Africa.
NOV 20, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Salvaging Peace with Syria
The geography, demographics, and environment of the Golan Heights make it suitable for environmental peace-building. Putting it on the agenda at the upcoming Middle East ...