Viewpoint by Hugh Miall This article was issued by Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. KENT | United Kingdom (IDN) — The new V&A Museum, designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, opened in Dundee, Scotland in 2018. ‘What If’…’ is one of its opening exhibitions. A Scottish architectural practice brought […]
Need to Learn Lessons from NATO Overthrowing Libya’s Gadhafi
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — It’s 10 years since NATO hammered defenceless Libya and French jets drove the mercurial President Muammer Gadhafi into a drainage tunnel where members of a mob killed him. President Barack Obama, who had preached again and again of his abhorrence for any more military interventions, reversed himself, […]
COP26: Protect Peace and Justice at the Climate Change Summit
Viewpoint by Arunabha Ghosh and Isabel Studer Noguez While Dr Arunabha Ghosh is CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water, Dr Isabel Studer-Noguez is Director of Alianza University of California-Mexico. Both sit on the international expert panel for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) initiative Environment of Peace. STOCKHOLM (IDN) — When world leaders […]
A Day in the Life of an Editor
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — This topic reminds me of two recent incidents. I was in the office on the morning of Tuesday, July 13 when a colleague rushed in with his phone. He seemed quite animated, but there was […]
North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program is a Logical Response to Repeated Threats from the US-Japanese-South Korean Alliance
Viewpoint by Joseph Gerson The writer is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security; Co-Founder of the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy; and author of “Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World”. NEW YORK (IDN) — News reports recently broadcast North Korea’s ostentatious display […]
Our Future vs. Neoliberalism
Viewpoint by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK (IDN) — In country after country around the world, people are rising up to challenge entrenched, failing neoliberal political and economic systems, with mixed but sometimes promising results. Progressive leaders in the U.S. Congress are refusing to back down on the Democrats’ promises to […]
WTO Extends Measures for LDCs to Access Knowledge, But Why not Go the Whole Way?
Viewpoint by Teresa Hackett The writer is Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager at Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL). She oversees the development and delivery of a unique, copyright service for libraries in developing and transition countries, providing specialist resources in multiple languages, and individual assistance on legislative issues. VILNIUS, Lithuania (IDN) — When members of […]
The EU Sidelined?
Viewpoint by Herbert Wulf This article was issued by Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission What do the Biden administration’s recent lonely foreign and security policy decisions imply for the EU? Perplexity and annoyance in Paris. Consternation in Brussels. Lots of open questions and no answers in Berlin.
Volunteerism Must be at the Centre of Our Common Agenda
Viewpoint by Simone Galimberti The Co-Founder of ENGAGE, a not-for-profit NGO based in Nepal, Simone Galimberti, is one of the participants at the IVCO 2021 conference. KATHMANDU, Nepal (IDN) — The ambitious plans put forward by UN Secretary-General António Guterres with the recent launch of Our Common Agenda, are based on key universal values and […]
Public Development Banks Fail to Meet Commitments to Human Rights & Community-led Development
Viewpont by Siddharth Akali The writer is an international lawyer who has been trained by local communities, Indigenous governments and peoples in Canada, India and Nepal. He works as director of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development, a global coalition of social movements, civil society organizations, and grassroots groups working together to ensure that […]