I’ll be off on holidays for a week or so, so don’t expect a lot of posts. Best wishes for a ‘worldly 2008′!

Photography © by Iwan Baan.

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In the early 1890s, Mahatma Gandhi worked as a lawyer in South Africa. One day, while travelling in a first-class train compartment on business, he was ordered to move to third class, which was designated for non-whites. Gandhi refused, producing his valid first-class ticket as evidence of his right to stay. At the next stop, [...]

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The trend toward fewer conflicts reported by peace researchers since the early 1990s now seems to have been broken. This is shown in the latest annual report “States in Armed Conflict,” from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program at the Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research. The findings worry the researchers. The Middle East [...]

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Given the volume of commentary from bloggers throughout the world about the assassination of ex-prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, earlier today in Rawalpindi, Global Voices has set up a Special Coverage page aggregating some of the reactions from Pakistan and other parts of south Asia, as well as their own coverage on Global Voices. [...]

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In line with the traditions of most magazines and newspapers, I have compiled my own ‘great moments’, photographs, lovely magazines, music, big trends, iconic people, etc.
2007 was the year of the Sustainable Breakthrough, of Al Gore, the IPCC and their Nobel Peace Prize, of Sarkozy, Chávez and Ahmadinejad, of weather extremes (again), of droughts [...]

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