Viewpoint by Ray Acheson This article first appeared as Editorial in NPT News in Review, Vol. 16, No. 7 on May 10, 2019. The writer is the Director of Reaching Critical Will – the disarmament programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). She represents WILPF on several coalition steering groups, including […]
Move Fast on Cameroon Before a Window of Opportunity Closes
Viewpoint by Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens GENEVA (IDN) – On May 8, 2019, Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, after a three-day mission to the Cameroon, welcomed the Cameroon government’s willingness to cooperate over finding workable solutions to what she called “major human rights and humanitarian crises” caused […]
Beware of Negativity Bias Running Riot
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Do we, especially our politicians and media, focus more on threats than on opportunities, dwell on loses more than on gains, and learn more from past failures than from successes? When we are children we are frightened of bogeymen. When we are adults we often inflate dangers. […]
Burqa Ban Does Not Absolve Sri Lanka Govt. of Responsibility for Carnage
Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK (IDN) – One week after the heinous bomb blasts that shattered the calm of an Easter Sunday, the Sri Lankan Sunday Times carried an editorial titled ‘Let’s resurrect ourselves from this catastrophe’. This was a timely advice since only crude opportunists would attempt to hijack “the dastardly attacks by […]
Hate Speech: Tech Companies and World Leaders Opt for Band-Aid Solutions
Viewpoint by James M. Dorsey James M. Dorsey – a senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, an adjunct senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute and co-director of the University of Wuerzburg’s Institute of Fan Culture – offered this viewpoint to IDN. SINGAPORE (IDN) […]
Saudi Gas Ambitions Likely to Have Geopolitical Impact
Viewpoint by James M. Dorsey James M. Dorsey – a senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, an adjunct senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute and co-director of the University of Wuerzburg’s Institute of Fan Culture – offered this viewpoint to IDN. SINGAPORE (IDN) […]
Demographic Peace Likely as Russia, China and USA Turn Grey
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Traditionally old men have sent young men to fight the wars they have started. Today it may be somewhat different. Old men may be shying away from war while young men are still beholden to it. The world, as never before, is becoming demographically lopsided, with older […]
Arab Power Struggles: ‘The King is Dead, Long Live the King’
Viewpoint by James M. Dorsey James M. Dorsey – a senior fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, an adjunct senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute and co-director of the University of Wuerzburg’s Institute of Fan Culture – offered this viewpoint to IDN. SINGAPORE (IDN) […]
The Primacy of Institutionalised Unity is Key to the Georgetown Agreement
Viewpoint by Sir Shridath Ramphal “The truly compelling lesson . . . is how critical it is to pool our resources: political, economic and intellectual in negotiating with countries beyond ourselves: globally, in Europe, in the Hemisphere,” says Sir Shridath Ramphal – one of the original drafters of the 1975 Georgetown Agreement that created the […]
The Secret of Greatness Lies in ‘Net Resources’
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Let’s make America great again! Or as the prime minister of France said: Let’s make France great again. Or, as President Donald Trump conceded, let every nation in the world announce that they are going to be great again. But what makes for greatness? Over that there […]