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Peace Pays for Itself

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7th March 2014 Steve Killelea highlights the economic benefits of a reduction in global warfare. completely peaceful world is indeed utopian. Yet we would add about $2.4 trillion in global economic activity if we made our world 25 percent less violent. That amount...

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Pushing Globalisation too far Undermines its own Institutional Foundations

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5th March 2014 Dani Rodrik previews his newest book about the balance between democracy and processes of globalisation. The argument in my book The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy can be expressed in the form of a syllogism....

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Function, not Form: Defining Targets for Justice in the Post-2015 Development Agenda

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4th March 2014 Peter Chapman explains why the post-2015 development agenda should focus on issues of justice and good governance. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are set to expire, and expectations around the inclusion of justice and good governance in a...

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A Court Victory over Torture Raises Hopes in Kazakhstan

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28th February 2014 Alexandra Cherkasenko reports on a landmark legal victory in Kazakhstan, potentially heralding a new focus on human rights and dignity in the region. The police in Kazakhstan, as in other Central Asian countries, have a dismal record on the use of...

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Book Review: The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John

Book Review: The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray

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28th February 2014 The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray. London: Allen Lane, 2013. 240 pp, £18.99 hardcover 978-1846-144509; £7 ebook 9780141969022; 2014, £9.99 paperback 9780241953914 John Gray’s book, The...

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Towards a Global Parliament of Mayors?

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27th February 2014 Reporting from the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Alex Marsh gives a review of Benjamin Barber's recent work "If Mayors Ruled The World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities". How should a world characterised by increasingly complex...

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Regulation- big brother, or just good governance?

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26th February 2014 Fiona Lander explores the concepts surrounding effective public health regulation, including the new global initiatives in health law, and questions the limits of lawmakers' powers to constrain individual liberties in the name of health. From...

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How to Measure a Post-2015 MDG on Good Governance

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26th February 2014 Nathaniel Heller examines the development of good governance data collection practices and the challenges they now face. As well as this, he offers both critique and suggestions for future progress in a post-2015 MDG era. There’s been plenty...

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Documentary Review: Shattered Sky

Documentary Review: Shattered Sky

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24th February 2014 Shattered Sky [Documentary film], Steve Dorst and Dan Evans (directors), 2012, USA: Bullfrog films.7 In the 1970s the sky was literally falling. There was a panic due to the unprecedented yet scientifically observed reduction in the stratospheric...

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/division-and-injustice-worldwide

Worldwide Inequality

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21st February 2014 Graham Peebles argues that market fundamentalism has failed, and should be replaced by the equitable distribution of resources. Where and to whom one is born is, it seems, arbitrary, chance, fate or karma being the divine decision maker. Wake...

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