Entries Tagged as 'Articles by Christopher Baan'
A bright New Year!
Coming soon:
• the year 2008 in review from a young internationalist perspective
• the best – and worst – list of 2008
• a brief preview of the possible, probable and impossible of 2009
In the mean time, take a look at this wow! video (by Famous). Thank you anothercompany
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Tomorrow is a special day. See it here…
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August 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I was happily surprised today to find an e-mail in my Inbox that I was awarded a Belgian Blog ‘Bokaal’ (literally a jar, but in this case an award) by the Dutch weblog Sargasso, a big name in the Dutch blogosphere. Thanks for the honour!
In tradition with following up this award, I have listed 7 [...]
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Time changes, all the time around us. Time flies when you’re having fun. Time can change step by step or it can leapfrog. In such situations, you can do three things: you can sit at the side and watch as a conservative as things go by and the world changes, you can try to row [...]
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New Trailer for the project Rebuild Your Future. In co-operation with the Dutch National Youth Council, The Netherlands Refugee Foundation and UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou.
See also www.rebuildyourfuture.nl
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Tags: Actuality · Articles by Christopher Baan · Developing Countries · Photography & journalism · Society · Youth
I’m happy to present to you a new website which I developed & designed together with the UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou.
This new website, vnjongeren.nl, aims to build a community for Dutch youths interested in the work and themes of the United Nations. Visitors can make their own account and start publishing articles, reviews or [...]
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Tags: Articles by Christopher Baan · Politics & International Relations · World · Youth
February 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
- This article will soon be published in English, too. Sorry for your inconvenience. -
Ondernemend idealisme voor een échte verandering.
Het huidige praktisch idealisme is voorbij. Een veranderende samenleving vraagt om een nieuw idealisme en nieuwe ideologieën. Ik pleit hieronder voor een nieuw soort idealisme, wat mijns inziens een duurzamer karakter heeft en meer kans van [...]
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Tags: Articles by Christopher Baan · Developing Countries · Globalization & Global Culture · Society · Sustainable Development · World
Just back from Morocco and studying again… Here are some pictures from an interesting journey through the High Atlas, through the Sahara and along the Atlantic Coast.
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Tags: Articles by Christopher Baan · Developing Countries · Photography & journalism
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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December 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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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Tags: Actuality · Articles by Christopher Baan · World