Ecological economics and short term crises (ISE...

Ecological economics and short term crises (ISEE 2010) Blog post by Peter May

Peter H. May is past president of the International Society for Ecological Economics (2008–2009), professor at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and associate direct...

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Towards a global development strategy

April 2010

Join the online discussion! Debate topics include: Identifying Obstacles, Global Civil Society, Knowledge Infrastructure, Building a New Structure, Going Global and Getting the Basics Right. The Broker invites everybody to take part in t...
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Discussion blogs

The Treehuggers' Treadmill http://www.bel-media.nl/ The world of development still surprises us in many ways. We are all starters in the sector and fear that the development community has become an inward looking culture that has hardly any interaction with outsiders. Instead of ‘going with the flow,’...
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Global green economics What can be done to achieve a truly green global economic system? This question - more pertinent than ever with the current economic, food and energy crises – guides our blog on global green economics. The blog was launched at the 2nd Degrowth confere...
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Nano Rights and Peace Part of the current Dutch societal dialogue on nanotechnology is the international dimension: implications of nanotechnology for peace, security and the interests of people in developing countries. This weblog, coordinated by Ineke Malsch, enables (in...
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Towards a global development strategy

Getting the basics right The energetic online debate about global development is a starting point for reformulating development policies. In response to the report written by the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), contributors to The Broker's blog on the report e...
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Going global Our increasingly interdependent world requires development policies that acknowledge the global context and address a new reality where a variety of actors as well as the state play a role. In this discussion, we invite you to comment on some general...
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Building a new structure A new institutional architecture for global development is sorely needed. How can this be done without shifting the focus away from those who need it most, namely the poor and the marginalized? How can we create ministries and other political and poli...
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Janelle Ward
July 07, 2010
Janelle Ward is assistant professor of media and communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research explores how civil society organizations and issue campaigns use new communication technologies to inform and mobilize ordinary citizens... read more >>
The Responsibility to Protect
July 19, 2010
Five years after its acceptance by the 2005 World Summit, it is time to consider the contribution that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has made and could make to the prevention of mass atrocities. While there isPhoto: Mo Fogarty USA conside... read more >>
Enrique Mendizabal
August 28, 2010
Quique (real name Enrique Mendizabal) is a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute. Through his illustrations and cartoons, Quique will explore a number of development issues and debates. He will share his impressions on new resear... read more >>

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Re: R2P: A new 'standard of sovereign responsibility'? “A portrait of moral courage”
Samuel P. Oliner wrote in “A portrait of moral courage” that many of the reasons that non-Jews had to rescue Jews where justice and compassion. One of the characteristics that rescuers share, was that they all had parents or role models that wher...

karla molina , August 31, 2010
Re: The Plenitude Path to Sustainability (ISEE 2010) The plenitude path -comments on perspectives
HI there Julia, I am one of those who heard your talk at the SIEE and thank you for a good input. However what came to my mind when sitting in the hall is my experience from travelling in Romania in 2003. Living with families of 4 where all ha...

Maria Maack , August 26, 2010
Re: Global norms and values for nanotechnology UNITAR/OECD/IOMC awareness raising on nanotechnology
UNITAR and OECD aim for capacity building in developing countries and transition countries to address nanotechnology issues. Pilot projects in some countries will be undertaken, funded by the Swiss agency for Development and Cooperation. Source:...

Ineke Malsch , August 26, 2010