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Not in my backyard please!
Written by Anikó Mészáros
Imagine your country is rich in an expensive, useful but dangerous resource. Imagine this resource lies near your town. What would you do? What do you think Hungarians should do? Hungary is a small country in Central Europe that lacks significant energy resources and is strongly dependent on energy imports. […]
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Nairobi Future Day – Guns & Roses: Security, Ecology and East African Integration
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Date: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 9:00am – 4:00pm Attendance restrictions: open to the public Location: Nairobi For the next Future Day, the Bertelsmann Foundation is partnering with the Society for International Development with support from the Rockefeller Foundation to create a dynamic event in Nairobi, Kenya. The Future Day will bring together voices from East […]
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Megatrend Future Day in Houston
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Date: Fri, Nov 9, 2012 7:30am – 3:30pm Attendance restrictions: open to the public Location: Houston Full-sized poster for event You are invited to attend and participate in what promises to be a special event–the November 9 University of Houston (UH) Megatrend Future Day. Ten UH colleges, including the College of Engineering, are partnering with the […]
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Lending a learning hand
Written by Muhammad Bilal Khalid
What started as a project to help improve the English language skills of underprivileged kids turned into something a lot more for the group of volunteers who ventured out to teach students at the Dar-ul-Shafqat, an orphanage in Pakistan. With activities ranging from English language workshops to playing cricket and letting the kids sing […]
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BRICS Reports: Faster Than The Censors
Written by dandanwang
This article is part of a cooperation between Future Challenges and the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI). SGI’s new study “Change Ahead? Sustainable Governance in the BRICS” examines policy making in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. We’ve asked five of our bloggers to tell us what they think about the reports. In China, social […]
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La carísima paz
Written by Mariana Belloso
You can live in relative peace in El Salvador, if you have the resources to afford it. There’s a direct relation between how poor people are, and how vulnerable they are in front of the country’s violence and insecurity.
A minority, the same portion of the population with de higher income, can buy “peace”, in the form of private security services, bodyguards, armored vehicles or extra secured houses.
But the rest, the people with lower income, have to deal with robbery, violations, extortions, and other types of violence.
