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Abstract: On October 15th 2012 president Evo Morales  enacted the Law of Mother Earth and Integral Development to Live Well. The aim of the law is to protect natural resources, finding a balance between progress and preservation  and also to enable the development of diverse forms of production in Bolivian […]

Barely a week into London’s post-Olympic stupor, before the stardust had settled, a lanky, middle-aged man emerged on the ground-floor balcony of a white stucco-fronted, red-brick building on Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge. The flowing snowy hair had been replaced by a crew cut, but there was no mistaking the body language—this […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.