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“Nature has enough for our need but not for our greed”
Written by Rahulkumar
If tens of thousands of people, many of them women, are walking hundreds of miles from Gwalior in central India, to Delhi, the seat of government power, there must be an excellent reason why they are subjecting themselves to such hardship. After all, the other memorable protest march in India […]
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Kathmandu’s Rivers Under Pressure
Written by Bhumika Ghimire
Data from the 2011 census shows that Nepal’s Kathmandu capital district recorded an almost 61% growth in population. In the absence of any proper planning and policies for the sustainable distribution of resources, this huge jump in demographics has put a further strain on natural resources such as the valley’s […]
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August – October 2012 Update
Written by Anneliese Guess
Dear Readers, Below you will find our August –October 2012 Update. This quarterly Megatrends Project Update focuses on the upcoming Future Days in Nairobi Kenya, at the University of Houston, and some changes to our website. [issuu width=420 height=272 embedBackground=%23000000 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=121101141246-21e958ccfd6a4e10aaa6e221f3d95518 name=futurechallengesupdate_q312_for_print username=bertelsmannfoundation tag=blog unit=px v=2] If you would […]
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Conflict is Here to Stay
Written by Josh Grundleger
Conflict is an innate aspect of human nature and thus inevitable. Man can never realistically avoid every single point of discord. Different perspectives, disagreements, divergent values, competing goals, and overlapping claims will always exist. Individuals, and the states they construct, in the quest to achieve their goals, will thus indubitably come to loggerheads. To ignore this fact is to lead policymakers, and the people who they are supposed to protect, down a dangerous path.
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Cultural Aggressiveness and Mexico´s War on Drugs
Written by Kapell
In October 2012, the Canadian journal La Presse published “Sans son arme, un Américain se croit en danger au Canada”, a peculiar story about an American policeman and his wife who vacationed in Canada but complained about the strong Canadian restrictions on carrying weapons. The sarcastically written article told the […]
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When justice fails in Bulgaria, citizens are forced to take the law into their own hands
Written by Nikoleta Popkostadinova
“It’s not fair that I am free, but the law supports me,” said 16-year old Borislav shortly after he was released from detention. “I am very grateful there’re so many loopholes in the system.” A little over a year ago, he killed the 12-year old Tzvetan at a tram stop […]
