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Let's ask the G8 to consider the case of Ms. D. She was a mother of six, her youngest child two years old. She caught a cold on a Sunday. The cold weakened her ...
The Verizon or PRISM or Snowden affair, revealed by The Guardian, marks a turning point in the history – a very young history – of the Internet and its governance within the international landscape. With the facts ...
Ivo Ivanovski is the Republic of Macedonia's Minister of Information Society and Administration, and was appointed as Chairman of the Fifth World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum that took place in Geneva from 14-16 May ...
Etienne Eichenberger, Executive Director of WISE, sat down with The Global Journal to discuss his views on the NGO sector. What is your interest in NGOs? I have worked with civil society for the last ...
Eric Darier is a senior campaigner on Ecological Agriculture for Greenpeace International. Let’s not mince our words: chemical intensive industrial agriculture is a failure. No doubt, future generations will wonder why we were so ...
At only 22 years old, Taha Bawa (left) – together with his brother, Omar – is the founder of web platform Endignorance. The two Geneva-based university students saw a challenge: new and old media alike inform the ...
Computer scientist, inventor, philosopher, composer and Microsoft “scholar-at-large,” Jaron Lanier has spent his career pushing the transformative power of modern technology, from coining the term ‘virtual reality’ to developing cutting edge medical imaging techniques. In ...
An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Julia Bacha has focused on the media’s role in perpetuating violent conflict, advocating for the “power of attention” in changing the world for the better. Her philosophy is at the ...
Fahd Ghazy is known at Guantánamo Bay as 026, his Internment Serial Number. These numbers were assigned to Guantánamo prisoners in chronological order according to their arrival. Fahd has a low number because ...
In the second of a regular series inviting prominent members of academia to address key questions of global governance, international politics and the evolution of the international system, Christopher Coker – a leading scholar of international ...
On 14 June, Iranians will go to the polls to choose the successor to outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Against the backdrop of escalating nuclear posturing, and with memories still fresh of the popular disaffection embodied ...
We are living through a period of unprecedented experimentation in higher education. While as far back as 900 years ago students across Europe flocked to the first universities in Bologna, Paris and Oxford, today’s ...
Beset by multiple corruption scandals, the Democratic Party of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is yet to designate a candidate to contest next year’s election. In the meantime, change is in the air. Since ...
Hunters, David Chancellor, Schilt Publishing, €49.90. A young boy, face smeared with blood, stands triumphantly over the carcass of a buck in Eastern Cape. A middle-aged man in fatigues nestles in the leathery folds ...
The Disappearance Of Darkness: Photography At The End Of The Analogue Era, Robert Burley, Princeton Architectural Press, $50.00. In 2007, a series of scheduled implosions of Kodak film factories took place in Rochester, New ...
Wilder Mann: The Image Of The Savage, Charles Fréger, Dewi Lewis Publishing, £25.00. It has passed into the realm of cliché to speak of art as being capable of transporting its audience. In ...
Israel Has Moved, Diana Pinto, Harvard University Press, $24.95. Diana Pinto’s depiction of Israel in her new book, Israel Has Moved, brings some much needed complication to a country often portrayed in black ...
China’s Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers And Workers Who Are Remaking The World In Beijing’s Image, Juan Pablo Caedenal & Heriberto Araújo, Allen Lane, £25.00. More than a sporting event, the ...
Afghan Rumour Bazaar: Secret Sub-Cultures, Hidden Worlds and the Everyday Life Of The Absurd, Nushin Arbabzadah Hurst & Co, £15.95. Twenty years after her family fled Afghanistan, Nushin Arbabzadah returned to the land of “poets ...
Calcutta: Two Years In The City, Amit Chaudhuri, Union Books, £16.99. In 2004, Suketa Mehta’s magisterial work of narrative non-fiction, Maximum City, not only sung the praises of pre-Mumbai Bombay, but inadvertently kickstarted ...
Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What it Means for Our Economic Well-Being, Zoltan J Acs, Princeton University Press, $29.95. In Why Philanthropy Matters, Zoltan Acs traces the role of philanthropy in ...
A History Of Future Cities, Daniel Brook, W.W. Norton & Company, $27.95. What do St Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai and Dubai have in common? Replace St Petersburg with Moscow, and the list reads like shorthand ...
The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda And The New Revolutionaries, Neville Bolt, Hurst & Co, £24.99. “Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell’s famous statement refers ...
Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation Is Failing When It’s Most Needed, Thomas Hale, David Held & Kevin Young Polity Press, £55.00. Gridlock sets out to explore a growing failure in global governance, whereby countries are ...
The Secret Financial Life Of Food: From Commodities Markets To Supermarkets, Kara Newman, Columbia University Press, $26.95. From haute cuisine to gastro-anthropologic travels to simple recipes, television programs and books alike have celebrated in ...
Wheel Of Fortune: The Battle For Oil And Power In Russia, Thane Gustafson, Harvard University Press, $39.95. In Wheel of Fortune, Thane Gustafson explores the imminent challenges faced by Russia if it is to ...
Last year in Geneva during GLOBAL+5, our inaugural festival of global governance, David Held – a seasoned academic versed in the topic and born to be a member of our jury – was very much preoccupied ...
The Executive Director of the UN Environment Program and the Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, Achim Steiner sat down with The Global Journal to discuss his views on the transition towards a green economy ...
As the first Internet stock bubble neared its popping point in 1999, IBM chief executive Lou Gerstner famously dismissed the dot-com start-ups of his day as “fireflies before the storm—all stirred up, throwing off ...
Diversity is not about quotas but fair representation. Following on from her previous analysis of NGO boards, Fairouz El Tom lays out the considerations NGOs should keep in mind when appointing board members. An executive ...
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