Off to Morocco
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. People who looked at this item also looked at… Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability The Lotus – A Practice Guide for Authentic Leadership in Strategic Sustainable Development Related...
What the world needs now
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,...
Number of conflicts no longer declining
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...
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
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....
2007 – An Overview off the paved paths
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...
No more charity, please!
Charity is in. Bill Clinton has written a bestseller about it and rock stars are organizing concerts. But Moniek Zegers, co-founder of the recently launched Dutch Comité tegen Goede Doelen Gekte (“Committee against good-cause lunacy”) says we shouldn’t be giving more but taking less. Read more in Ode Magazine… Global Info (in Dutch) published a...
Goodbye Free Trade, Hello Mercantilism…
As countries grow more interdependent, they’re also becoming more nationalistic, tells us another Newsweek article. Is there a clear trend towards mercantilism, or could it be merely a reaction on the current Western, neoliberal expansionism? (for those who believe in it). Here’s today’s quiz. What do the following have in common: (a) Vladimir Putin; (b)...
The Booming South – and the Good News…
A recent article in Newsweek comes with an unexpeted story: despite the economic gloom, a looming credit crisis, failing holiday shoppings in Great Britain and the US, the numbers tell us something other about most developing countries outside western Europe and the US. On the contrary: the future looks actually quite bright, when 98% of...
Off to exams…
Due to preparing 3 exams for next week, I’ll be off the blog activity for a while. Keep visiting my site, as new discussions and issues are continually evolving in the blogosphere about climate change, development, sustainability, international relations and other issues of specific interest for other world citizens… Will be back soon! People who...
Global justice and the costs of climate change: Who pays?
Extreme weather events, partly caused by climate change, are already wreaking havoc, especially in the South. Both floods and droughts are expected to become more frequent and more severe. But who will pay for the measures needed to respond to the impacts of climate change? Read more at The Broker… Related items HOME: It’s Too...
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The Big Challenge
Currently, I’m working on an article where I try to identify the big challenges of our time, as they become more and more visibible last years and politicians seem to be more and more upset with them. Main inspirational source is Chris Abbott’s article and book ‘Beyond terrorism: towards sustainable security‘ at OpenDemocacry.org. In the...
The Seemingly Impossible is Possible
Hans Roslings presentation at the TED-conference in 2006 has been seen by around 500.000 people over the internet, at TED‘s web-page , at Google Video or Youtube. This year, 2007, Hans Roslings TED-speach focused on making the seemingly impossible, possible. Prof. Hans Rosling uses software from Gapminder debunks a few myths about the “developing” world....
