Jacqueline Novogratz: Tackling poverty with ‘patient capital’
Jacqueline Novogratz is pioneering new ways of tackling poverty. In her view, traditional charity rarely delivers lasting results. Her solution, outlined here through a series of revealing personal stories, is “patient capital”: support for “bottom of the pyramid” businesses which the commercial market alone couldn’t provide. The result: sustainable jobs, goods, services — and dignity...
Kosovo: the day after
The cost of Kosovo’s independence is the permanent embitterment of its Serb minority. When the tears of joy and despair dry, a fresh diplomatic solution will be needed, says Timothy William Waters. After a decade of waiting and months of intense manoeuvring, Kosovo’s assembly unilaterally declared independence on the afternoon of 17 February 2008. The...
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Doen WIJ genoeg voor een betere wereld?
- 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...
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26,500
Around the world, some 26,500 children die every day. That is equivalent to: 1 child dying every 3 seconds 18 children dying every minute A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every week An Iraq-scale death toll every 15–36 days Almost 10 million children dying every year Some 60 million children dying between 2000 and 2006 The...
New Idealism
(By Farid Tabarki) Just a few years ago Dutch youngsters were seen as lazy, disconnected from society and media junkies. The Dutch Coolpolitics Foundation was founded because it knew better. By undertaking several projects in line with giving a platform to the rise of ‘new idealism’ amongst young people in the Netherlands youngsters are not...
Beyond abstract solidarity
[Open Democracy] James Mensch asks us to be careful of easy generalisations about “solidarity”. Is it necessarily exclusionary? or grounded in the past, the tribe? No, when we examine the lived examples of solidarity, we find a diversity of practices and habits that is not easily reducible to grand theorising. In our increasingly interdependent world,...
Who will be the Person of the Year 2007?
OneWorld.net provides its own selection of people who made the difference in 2007 in the field of international co-operation, human rights, environment, development or justice. Along them are brights minds such as Rajendra Pachaury/ the IPCC, The Burmese Monks, the $100 laptop designers and Vandana Shiva. Here’s the finalist overview…Â You can even cast your...
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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...
