D+C 01/2007   Editorial Hans Dembowski: Miracles Monitor Afghanistan: Drug economy increasingly mafia-like Vietnam, a UN test case UNDP focuses on Arab women BMZ budget 2007 Financial markets: Sitting on a powder keg Somalia: Experts fear escalation Female genital multilation: Scarring body and soul Informal institutions: sometimes good, sometimes bad Focus: Trade and regional integration Regional integration in Africa The price is not right yet ACP countries need reforms Mercosul dilemmas ASEAN + 3 ECOWAS’ unfinished agenda Tribune The importance of basic sanitary services Human rights: “Make our position unmistakably clear” No justification for dams Beautified data InWEnt Forum Global warming: Andean glaciers are melting away Fragile states: Priorities … Peacekeeping: End to illusions Media Giving victims a say in reconciliation Few new insights into human-rights protection Civil society should engage in policy-making Debate Debt relief: “Responsibility goes both ways” Aggressors, not peacekeepers in Iraq