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Are democracies always the best providers of disaster relief?
Written by TahirImran
If we talk about the ways disasters impact on democracy and the ways democracies cope with them, we can see considerable variation from country to country, even though the impact of a disaster is always a testing case. In my view it’s not democracy but a functioning system that helps […]
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Future Day Part 2 – Hear what they say but pay more attention to what they don’t!
Written by kachwanya
This is the second post in a the three-part series of articles looking at the Future Day held recently in Nairobi and organized by Future Challenges, SID East Africa and the Rockefeller Foundation. Check out the first post here . On this article I look at the security situation in the region and […]
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Creating a Common Future: The Asian–European Young Leaders Forum: Day 3
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
The last day of the Forum on 1 November (here is a blogpost about the first day and here is a post that covers the second day) started with an air of finality in the search for solutions as various speakers discussed the effects of aspects ranging from cross-border migration […]
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Mining Propaganda provokes the People of Mongolia
Written by Otgoo Jargal
This poster by Oyu Tolgoi mining (OT) – a copper and gold mining company in Mongolia – shows the share of Rio Tinto (29%) in the form of a loaf of bread. Rio Tinto and the government of Mongolia are co-owners of the OT mining company. But in reality Rio Tinto actually has […]
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The Whole Enchilada
Written by tecglobalist
9/11 not only changed American discourses on security but also modified the US- Mexican relations and with it its promises of a fair accomplishment of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) regarding immigration and trade
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The Drought Strikes Back: Power Production in Central America
Written by vlemus
Abstract: Hydroelectric power is very much like petrol: no one thinks we’ll ever run out of it until we do. Water is bountiful in Central America, you may think; we have rain pouring down on us for almost six months of the year and water is, by definition, a renewable resource. […]
