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Germany’s dubious arms exports: Encouraging dictatorship and conflict on Europe’s doorstep
Written by sergio.marx
Germany has an official agenda of supporting democracy and peace. However, the German arms industry sells weapons to dictators or conflict-suffering regions, sometimes to the detriment of even the country’s own interests. Compared to other NATO-states, Germany is generally reluctant to engage in wars. The most recent example is last […]
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Nepal: Democracy Dreams
Written by Bhumika Ghimire
“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.” Voltaire suggested more than two centuries ago. Scan the headlines of any major broadsheet today and you can see that many countries (Nepal included) have taken the assassination bit more seriously than the democracy part. Nepal has been flirting with […]
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El encuentro con el otro: en busca de nuevos caminos
Written by Mayxué Ospina Posse
Abstract: Just a brief look at our everyday environment verifies the presence of conflict as an inherent fact in community life. From the most basic relational structures as the family, to the more complex forms of human association as the nation-state, implicitly involve places of disagreement between different interests […]
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Uganda’s Quest for Peace and Joseph Kony
Written by Mubatsi
Is peace between individuals and societies possible, or is conflict simply a part of human nature? Does it differ from culture to culture, religion to religion, nation to nation? All human history is punctuated by conflict and endless struggle for peaceful coexistence. Even before the American Revolution in 1777 to […]
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Transformation Thinkers Conference: Lessons Learned
Written by Chak Sopheap
The Berlin Wall and ThePianist (2002), a biographical war drama film were my primary sources of information about Germany since 2003, derived from my bachelors study in International Relations- war and genocide being my points of reference. This time my trip to the Transformation Thinkers Conference in Berlin, organized by the Bertelsmann […]
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Is the governing party of Hungary really an anti-EU party?
Written by Kinga Szálkai
What responsibility do we bloggers have when we choose the expression of “an anti-EU party” for describing the governing party of Hungary? Fidesz is definitely not one of those easy-to-grasp parties. Just remember how proud Hungary was of its EU Presidency at the beginning of 2011, over half a year […]
