‘A lot is happening, but nothing is going on,’ John Lennon once said.
Behind the happenings and short-like hypes of everyday life, often much more important developments are going on. Things we are rarely aware of. Examples like the climate hype – what is really going on, behind the emotionally loaded quotes of politicians and [...]

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What Do You Want to Change in the World?
Here’s a nice inspirational platform. Go and change the world!
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Fifteen guidelines for peacekeepers, by Jan Pronk, published on his weblog. Nice words. But when are they being translated into action…?
Here’s an abstract of some of the guidelines.
Twelve: Fight bureaucracy. Fight also the bureaucrat in yourself. Stay a movement; keep the spirit of a pioneer.
Thirteen: Care for people. People first.
Fourteen: Peacekeeping is a calling, not [...]

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The Dutch Africa Day 2007, this year in the Hague Polytechnic University and organized by the Evert Vermeer Stichting, was a great success: around 1500 poeple came to listen to speeches, workshops and debates by a.o. Jan Pronk, Mo Ibrahim, Jerry Rawlings, Minister of Development Cooperation Bert Koenders, and many more…
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It’s the first time that such “hard core” issue as international politics, has been spoken about in connection with “soft issues” such as gender rights, HIV/AIDS and peacekeeping.
On the eve of the first United Nations Security Council debate on global warming, the UK foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, warned US businesses to invest in carbon-free technology [...]

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