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In the UK and Europe a number of estate and landowners are converting to rewilding

The promise of rewilding

Natural capital and a nature-based economy

President Iván Duque: we have serious concerns about bringing forth the truth

Open letter to President Iván Duque

Request for a hearing, from the Advisory Council to the Truth Commission, Bogotá, Colombia

Russia has attacked Ukraine, in a clear violation of the UN Charter

Russia's attack on Ukraine

Are we facing a new undesirable European security architecture to emerge?

There is anxiety and sense of fear of white loss of control and domination of America

The fear returns

By 2050, minorities would make up more than 50 percent of the American population

In the United States, both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party owe their allegiance, not to the people, not to the voters, but to large corporate donors

Corporations versus democracy

As citizens we must prevent our politicians from pursuing this insane brinksmanship

Environmental education is very important in achieving sustainable development

Green education in Costa Rica

Diverse approaches paving the way for ecological and economic sustainability

Variants of other viruses are emerging

The NeoCoV virus

The next Coronavirus pandemic may be just one mutation away

Vulnerable members of society in India: we are divided but no one can escape the pandemic if everyone does not escape the pandemic

Uniting society post-pandemic?

Reflections on society’s illness and the lack of a political project

Social Forum of Resistances 2022: the strength of women is more than ever essential

Is the utopia of another world possible?

Social Forum of Resistances 2022

Failure is common in business

How to address the failure of a project?

The topic of failure is not included in the curriculum of business schools

Ukrainian troops assemble on the border

Europe: weapons, war and peace

History reminds us that peace is short-lived

The World Economic Forum 2022 was held via the WEF website and social media channels between 17 and 21 January 2022

World Economic Forum 2022

The world cannot waste even another half-year without making progress

The current crisis in Ukraine is the next step in Vladimir Putin's attempt to make Russia great again

The NATO-Russia-Ukraine train wreck

Options for peace

Collective Security Treaty Organization forces were deployed to Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan and the importance of stability in Central Asia

Conflict in January 2022 highlights the geostrategic relevance of this region

Deep Ocean Mission and Blue Revolution will both threaten India's marine biodiversity and livelihoods of small fisherfolk © Ashish Kothari

Highways to unsustainability

India’s 2022-23 budget gives environment and climate token attention

Public health in Bhutan is related to their “Gross National Happiness Index”

Re-visioning public health

Involving and including happiness and a sense of well-being

Financial inequality keeps millions of people below the poverty line

Helpless politics

The world does not suffer a lack of resources, but of political and social organization

Numerous countries are already in the process of adding third and fourth boosters

Covid-19 booster vaccines

The worst is behind us?

Local action groups relying on grassroots initiatives are certainly a valuable instrument of democracy

Sustainability of grassroots initiatives

A valuable instrument of democracy

Education is classified as consumption, even though it is the most important investment all societies make in the health and competence of their future citizens

Market opportunities in metaphysical reconstruction

Achieving circular economies with innovative thinking and reshaping of whole sectors

Nobody can escape the challenges that inhabit the beginning of 2022

2022 and you: the Alpha Bet

The challenges we currently face along with those that shall emerge

Antonio Guterres: Will his second term change how his performance is perceived?

António Guterres’s hour

Can the UN Secretary General step up and make his mark?

US soldiers are being deployed to the Russian-Ukraine border

The Ukraine conflict

The cornerstone for a new pan-European peace order could be laid in Ukraine

Balkan region has experienced major floods in the past

The triangle of disaster

Τhe BIMS three-state response

The World Social Forum was established 20 years ago

The demise of the World Social Forum

The International Renewal Group denounces the WSF's irrelevance due to being unable to adapt to changes

Capitol under siege

Attacks on democracy in the United States

The Republican Party has become irresponsible

Advances in digital technology in the health sector is one outcome of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Surfing the fourth industrial revolution in Costa Rica

Creating the right political environment to capitalise on the 4.0 economy

At doom's doorstep: the Doomsday Clock is now at 100 seconds to midnight

Message from the World Philosophical Forum

An appeal for the application of classical philosophy by our world leaders, as Doomsday looms

The struggle of Tunisian women

Harassment, gender and sexism in the city

Eternal struggle for the reappropriation of public space by women

Gabriel Boric won with 4,619,222 votes

Gabriel Boric, president of Chile

The wide victory of the 35-year-old left-wing candidate

The "Global Innovation Index" is the most authoritative ranking of innovation performance covering 132 countries

Innovation: the engine of growth and development

More than ever the prime generator of economic and social progress

Is the world entering into a new Cold War?

Not a new Cold War

It is even more dangerous

The second healthcare market will be a growing part of the total health economy

The second healthcare market

What will be the fiscal impact of technical and social developments in the health sector?

Police services follow an integrated security strategy

Morocco police departments fight against Covid-19

Vigilance, physical presence, and commitment

Venezuelans are suffering from hunger

Semi-slavery in Venezuela

Work almost for free with no options

The symbolic doomsday clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight

2022 in covid’s waning wake

Pain, aches and quakes from 2021’s remains

Consider ourselves guests on Planet Earth and stop ecocide

As we consider our future

And want ecocide to stop

Improving wealth equality is not only a question of justice, it is also a question of social and economic intelligence

What is this all about?

Individual success has no meaning if it does not contribute to social welfare

Part of the forests regenerated by Auroville's residents © Ashish Kothari

Bulldozing a dream?

Auroville’s importance as an experiment in alternative living

2021 saw Washington’s inglorious exit from Afghanistan after 20 years in the country

Osama and Trump

Two bookends to the downspin of an empire

The international community has done too little so far about global climate change

Promises aren’t climate action

The Paris Agreement must result in binding and enforceable commitments against heat-trapping pollution

Gabriel Boric, Chile’s next president

Historical upheaval at the Chile’s political stage

Chilean second transition

Some people think that freedom of expression is no more than the right to go along with the mainstream

The right to freedom of expression

Striking the right balance

The project leaders are not making the necessary effort to find and engage the available sources of funding

Challenges of project funding

Many times people in charge of interesting projects are not properly informed about the available funding

How do the 40 years of ESG screening stack up regarding US and global corporations for compliance with socially-responsible norms and ESG, ethical impact investing?

Can the USA and China find paths to common prosperity?

Exploring synergies between the super-powers' approach to money and markets

The ability to avoid global ecological catastrophe is largely dependent upon cooperation between the US and China

China and US: cooperation or self-destruction

Does our global future rest on these two power-houses working together to achieve social and ecological justice?

You’ll be a better investor if you accept that you know nothing

Information is money

Misinformation is money for someone else

Between 1526 and 1867, 12.5 million Africans were shipped from Africa and 10.7 million arrived in the Americas

The opposing or “other” views

We are at a choice point of choosing: humanity and morality over hatred and greed

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), pioneered the concept of a simple life, in harmony with nature

The enormous human ecological footprint

The explosive rise of the human population

Although this COP is the best one in history, it has already come too late

2022: a year of grace with the best COP to date

Until COP27 in Egypt to reconcile itself with the science

Guayaquil, the "Pearl of the Pacific"

Guayaquil, a landmark case

The International Tribunal on Evictions restarts the road to housing security for more than 5,000 families

Between $20 and $30 trillion US dollars remains hidden from tax authorities

Why international organisations prefer to chase the chimera of poverty

Japanese work culture

The relevance of the value of time

Whoever does not know how to manage time, does not know how to manage anything

China, India, US, ASEAN should forge a common initiative to resolve Myanmar crisis

Big power rivalries. The thugs of Myanmar

What China, US, India could do together

After more than 20 years since the end of the last armed conflict, ethnic and religious intolerance and poor communication remain high

European integration and Western Balkans

Numerous conflicts, uprisings and rebellions over the last century have left enormous consequences

Irma Passoni

An interview with Irma Passoni

A leading light and voice of Brazil’s popular movements during the country’s heavy years of military dictatorship

It is crucial that Washington deepen its own practices of democratic governance at all levels

After the Yankee doodle dandy democracy Summit

The Biden Administration virtual Summit on democracy

Moroccan policy to combat climate change has adopted two key components: the adaptation to climate change and mitigation of the effects of greenhouse gases

Moroccan integrated strategy to face climatic changes

Kingdom's climate is tending more and more towards more aridity

The current humanitarian situation is one of the worst in the world

Global migration and humanitarian action

It's time to address the cause of forced migration, not build more walls

Primitive peoples were first to inhabit the land, and need to be respected as such - Dongria Kondh indigenous people, Odisha (India) © Ashish Kothari

How they change meaning through history

Public health policy in the U.S. is unclear and seems cluttered by a list of prominent diseases

Looking at public health

The Covid code has been cracked

A street in Warsaw destroyed during the failed 1944 uprising against the Nazi German occupiers

Poland, always a place to remember

A nation struck by history

The role model men unconsciously or consciously follow shapes our kind of economy and politics

Male role models: how the warrior pervades

Could a provider approach instead positively influence our economic and political environment?

Economic success is pointing in the wrong direction

The reward system is just plain wrong

How will our social system work if it rewards extraction, instead of contribution to the common good?

The prices we pay for fossil fuels today are nowhere near their actual costs to society, the economy, and the environment

Hidden numbers are killing the US

Only “deep math” will prevent environmental disaster

Oil and gas are set to continue playing a vital role in meeting the world’s energy needs for decades to come

Uncertain times for oil and gas giants

Angola’s energy policies as the key pillar of energy security

According to numerous scientists, inaction in addressing the adverse impact of climate change could cost the world up to USD 1.7 trillion a year by 2050

Are science and religion compatible?

Religion and climate change

Gender more balanced economies are growing faster

Gender equality in R&I

It is now more important than ever before in history

All our global media have become humanity’s external nervous system

Progress or collective insanity?

Enslaving ourselves to infotech speed and virtual reality

Is an issue of this nature best served by protests in the streets?

Are environmental protests actually helping the environment?

A look at the efficacy of demonstrations for environmental justice

All we need to do is end the ability to pollute for free

The pursuit of an ecological future: is there another way?

Transforming our tax system for economic growth and ecological improvement

Price can be pure psychology

The psychology of a market correction

Investors decide to finance companies, but they unwittingly also finance each other

Plastic bags will soon be eliminated from many African countries

Plastic bag pollution: from science to law

Kenya's government is leading the way to prohibit and eliminate plastic bags

Now the world is confronted with a new kind of nuclear threat

A nuclear catastrophe on the horizon?

Improvised Nuclear Device (IND)

The spread of misinformation is spreading across the land

Misinformation: as American as apple pie

The spread of misinformation is spreading across the land

At COP26 in Glasgow, this vision of the long-term future was not discussed

Let's get money out of politics

Why COP26 failed future generations

Chinese military aircraft and US naval forces face each other in the South China Sea. Where does Europe stand in all of this?

Europe needs a new vision, not a new Cold War

In a changing world, Europe must act according to its own security and economic interests

Protests leading to the Fair Housing Act in 1968

Redlining and its effect on the mortgage process

Real estate discrimination

12,837 are the young Tunisians who have crossed the sea to Italy since the beginning of the year 2021

Migration, failure of public policies

Youth in perdition

A look at the idea of global solidarity

Colonialism and solidarity

What do welfare states have to do with Europe's colonial past?

Philosophers like Plato and Aristotle stated that creative thinking was a gift

Creative thinking and business intelligence

A valuable and indispensable element

Angela Merkel is considered in the collective memory a great stateswoman

Germany, new times

Challenges of the Teutonic country with the departure of Angela Merkel

The environmental impact of products and services

The impact of Social Life Cycle Assessment

Politicians could do much more to impose rules helping economic operators and consumers to act responsibly

Ecologists, activists and scientists are not satisfied with the current situation

Results of COP26 and trust

The financial industry and the climate crisis: transparency is necessary for accountability

Global health is high on the medical, economic and political agenda worldwide especially since the outbreak of covid-19

Global health: a new challenge

A path to advancement in worldwide health

Without a more refined diet of diplomacy, America will continue to throw its bulging military weight around—but with only counter-productive results

War is not inevitable

A lean China confronts an obese America

This appeal is presented with confidence that philosophy will not be allowed to slip from the agenda of the United Nations

Urgently appealing to the United Nations COP26

Philosophical thoughts on whether to COPe or to COP-out

Covid is everywhere

Cracking the Covid code

Media manipulation of the narrative

The poor are not responsible for the workings of the system that holds them in the poverty trap

Wealth inequality in the world

An ethical challenge, source of political instability and economic stagnation

Compared to our apparent potential, we are primitives

Are we ready for another planet?

Neither we nor millions of other species will continue surviving if we don't better understand life on Earth

World leaders Shri Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia and Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia at the Bandung Conference in 1955

The revival of the Non-Aligned Movement in Serbia

Fostering the multilateral initiatives to meet the global challenges

Ladakh (India) pastures are crucial for pastoralists but threatened by mega-energy projects © Ashish Kothari

Will the Glasgow Declaration save the world’s forests?

Governments have repeatedly failed in delivering ecological and socio-economic justice

Whenever it comes to lobbying, people think negatively first

Legitimate and ethical lobbying

Lobbying can and should be an important instrument of democracy

Although there is a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there is no equivalent instrument for democracy

For a Universal Declaration of democracy

Draft and formulation

Climate and ecological emergency

The climate crisis and the Questians

Generation Q, the new generation of emerging climate change activists

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