Monitoring disaster displacement in the context of climate change
Issue:Climate change
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An IPI policy forum launched a new joint study by a UN office and a prominent Norwegian group showing that 36 million people were displaced in 2008 by sudden onset natural disasters — 20 million of them by climate-related disasters such as storms and floods.
Read more »Posted on 16/11/09
India's 21st-century war
Issues:Climate change, Global militarisation, Marginalisation
In an age of climate change and deepening inequality, the spreading Naxalite insurgency in India - not al-Qaida - may show the world its future.
This article was originally posted on openDemocracy.
Read more »Posted on 11/11/09
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Gorbachev - Twenty years after the fall of Berlin wall the world is no fairer
Issue:Marginalisation
Twenty years have passed since the fall of the Berlin wall, one of the shameful symbols of the cold war and the dangerous division of the world into opposing blocks and spheres of influence. Today we can revisit the events of those times and take stock of them in a less emotional and more rational way.
Original article published in the Guardian and based on an address delivered to the World Political Forum conference, 'Twenty Years After: The World(s) Beyond the Wall' held in Italy, 9-10 October 2009.
Read more »Posted on 8/11/09
The heart of India is under attack
Issues:Climate change, Competition over resources, Marginalisation
Odd, isn't it, that even after the Mumbai attacks of 26/11, the government was prepared to talk with Pakistan? It's prepared to talk to China. But when it comes to waging war against the poor, it's playing hard
This article was originally posted in the guardian.co.uk's comment is free section.
Picture: Dongria Kondh’s Sacred Mountain in Orissa (angryindian.blogspot.com)
Read more »Posted on 4/11/09
AfPak-Iraq: wrong war, right path
Issue:Global militarisation
The term "global war on terror" has long since been dropped from the United States's official vocabulary. The phrase that came to be proposed as a replacement even when George W Bush was still in office, the "long war", has similarly fallen by the wayside, to be succeeded in March 2009 by a less overtly combative Pentagon formulation: "overseas contingency operation". But it is easier for the Barack Obama administration to redefine the conflict it is involved in than to change the bleak current reality in three main flashpoints - Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
This article was originally posted on openDemocracy
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Posted on 4/11/09
