Category: OPINION

Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte The writer is an Ambassador, former United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affair, and President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. NEW YORK (IDN) — The Charter of the United Nations consolidated important norms of international law. Its Preamble affirms the decision to “save succeeding generations from the scourge […]

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — During the difficult years that preceded the British handover of Hong Kong to China the Chinese government’s intense antipathy to opium and the still-fresh memories of the evil that eighteenth-century buccaneering Britain had inflicted on China and Hong Kong added an extra emotional charge to what, anyway, […]

Viewpoint by Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens GENEVA (IDN) — 24 April 2022 saw renewed violence in the Darfur Provence of Sudan between Arab militias and the indigenous tribes of the area, the Masalit and the Fur. The violence began in 2003 and has caused some 300,000 deaths and some three million displaced. […]

This article was issued by The Institute for International Political Studies – ISPI. Viewpoint by Lucia Ragazzi MILAN (IDN) — Since the war in Ukraine broke out in Europe, its consequences and side effects have been reverberating across African countries. Rising food and energy prices, supply disruptions, and inflationary pressures have created additional challenges on […]

Viewpoint by Prof. Dr Rolf J. Langhammer Prof. Langhammer is a trade expert at Kiel Institute for World Economy (ifw). The following comment on the resilience of the Russian economy against the background of the discussion about an oil embargo was issued by the Kiel Institute Media Information. BERLIN | KIEL (IDN) — Hopes that […]

This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. Viewpoint by Herbert Wulf BONN (IDN) — At present, historical analogies are very often used to explain reasons for or against the causes of the war in Ukraine or to describe the horrors of this war with historical arguments. […]

Viewpoint by Olatubora Ayodeji LAGOS, Nigeria (IDN) — It’s very important to understand that Russia is the world’s third biggest oil producer, behind the US and Saudi Arabia and of about five million barrels of crude oil it exports each day, more than half went to Europe before the sanctions were announced. Before the announcement, […]

Viewpoint by Boaventura de Sousa Santos This article was produced by Globetrotter. Boaventura de Sousa Santos is the emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. His most recent book is Decolonizing the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice. COIMBRA, Portugal (IDN) — The North Atlantic media is entangled in an […]

Viewpoint by India Walton* BUFFALO, NEW YORK (IDN) — When I ran for mayor of Buffalo, New York, last year, my past-due parking tickets became a major reason for reduced favorability among voters. When Stacy Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, there was a lot of talk in the mainstream media about how […]

By Annalena Baerbock Following is the text of a speech by Germany’s Minister of Foreign Affairs at the “Sustaining Peace amidst the Climate Crisis: The Role of Data Science, Technology & Innovation” Conference on May 2-3 in Berlin. BERLIN (IDN) — The climate crisis is a threat to our world, to our lives. Many of […]