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To see clearly is a difficult task. At night, or when there is too much light, when tired, or when too many people are around, where the rush of events is clouding our ability to ...
After two years of covering the topic of global governance, the Global Journal is just beginning to do justice to the intricacies of the subject. As the concept of international relations is now part and ...
Pr. Louis Loutan, President of the Geneva Health Forum and Head of division of International and Humanitarian Medicine at Geneva University Hospitals. What was the origin of the Geneva Health Forum ? We launched the first ...
The notion of Global Governance remains an abstract one for many of us. Some would see it as an invention by people who dream of being more powerful than the powerful. Others imagine it as ...
2012 is dawning much better than our usual fearmongers were predicting. Chiefly, perhaps, because 2011 was a dramatic year, with its share of terrors and a multitude of surprises. From here on, there are many ...
Renowned Syrian dissident lawyer and judge, 80-year old Haitham Maleh, believes the continuing brutality of President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, which has led to a death toll of over 5,000, is a sign that ...
Maria van der Hoeven, a former economics minister in the Netherlands, took over as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency in September. She is taking over amid concerns that the I.E.A. is ...
It was an unlikely duo who faced an audience at the University of Geneva (October 14) to share their thoughts on human rights: celebrated American author and Nobel laureate, Toni Morrison and Swiss renegade politician ...
‘Global Governance’ is a victory whose time will come. If we cannot yet imagine a world government or the passing of our current national governments, it is still obvious that global issues are increasingly the ...
Diplofoundation is a non-profit organization created in 2003 and based in Malta, unique in its vision of diplomacy as a field in need of greater inclusiveness through use of the internet. Its most emblematic achievement ...
We are used to thinking about tribunals as having all the means, and the power, necessary to shed light on criminal acts. This fundamental idea is even more indispensable when it is at the service ...
Mallika Sarabhai is a noted Indian dancer and choreographer, turned political activist. She first came to international notice when she played a lead role in Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata, first in French and then ...
The Geneva Creativity Center was officially launched on June 28 with the purpose of provoking unexpected encounters between researchers and industrialists to develop unique projects for the benefit of the local economy.The Center is ...
Whatever the process, whoever is in charge, we always come back to wondering how current policies will shape the future. Are the men and women running our governments and institutions around the world able to ...
Swiss watchmaker Marc A. Hayek cherishes those who make watches and those who love them. In this interview he talks about looking towards a global market and the surprises he faces when thinking locally and ...
If the idea of world governance is disturbing, the idea of an actual world government, the stage for the final dispossession of national sovereignty, is alarming. Should we regret the time when the master of ...
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera of Uganda has been given the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders for her courage as a gay activist defending minority rights. Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda and can be ...
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan took office on May 3rd as the new Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG) after resigning his position as chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in ...
In an increasingly disaster prone world, leaders from the UN, the World Bank, NGOs and countries recently hit by natural disasters agreed on a global road map for how best to rebuild after fires, floods ...
World military spending reached $1.6 trillion in 2010, an increase of 1.3 per cent in real terms.* This increase looks more like a decline when compared with the average annual growth rate of ...
Exactly one year ago, the Global Journal was founded jointly in Geneva and New York, a transatlantic link between two heartlands of the United Nations. What was unforeseen was that a bridge would also rapidly ...
Sandrine Salerno, Mayor of Geneva since June 1, 2010, is convinced that the future of global governance starts at the local level. Here, she explains how cities should be working together to fulfil their natural ...
We thought the word “progress” had disappeared from the dictionary, replaced by a blank space and a note: “See ‘crisis’ or ‘depression’”. And here it is making a comeback where least expected. The lead weight ...
The world took notice in 2009 when China officially became the biggest exporter. But Don Brasher, CEO of Global Trade Information Services (GTIS), thinks that what is about to happen next is even bigger news ...
“We’re at a Huge Transition Phase in Our History” Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was at the helm in London when the global financial system came close to collapse in the autumn of ...
The City, the World's Local Laboratory Sandrine Salerno, Mayor of Geneva since June 1, 2010, is convinced that the future of global governance starts at the local level. Here, she explains how cities should ...
Geneva. One week after the G20 Finance ministers’ meeting in Paris, Sarkozy’s very ambitious vision for the G20 continues to present a rhetoric leap that intrigues advocates of a reform in global governance. On ...
Why does it matter to Global Governance and National Policy Makers ? Dr Carol Y.-Y. Lin - Pr Leif Edvinsson They see each other as Map Makers ! The usual tools for traveling the ‘World in Globalisation ...
Do you feel as though you are helping to bring about a form of soft governance? If this phrase does not seem appropriate, which words would you choose? If what you mean by that is ...
Like a photograph, numbers can also be worth a thousand words. With little need for lengthy comment, they have a way of bringing us back to reality. In this case, we are talking not percentages ...
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