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Published on Wednesday, 16 July 2008 05:07 | | 
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Soaring food prices triggering riots in several countries, climate change
threatening increased population displacement and the world's growing
demand for energy caught up with both - are these interlinked issues the
new challenges to conflict prevention in Africa?
By Alex Evans, former special adviser to the UK's Secretary of State for International Development
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week, for the first time since it was set up in the 1970s, issues of resource
security – and scarcity – are dominating the G8. Climate change, the Japanese
government’s top G8 priority, is making itself felt faster and stronger than
scientists thought even just a few years ago. Food prices have risen 83 per
cent in three years; oil is just below $145 – its highest level ever.
Published on Friday, 11 July 2008 18:01 | | |
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Arctic photographer Norbert Rosing was sure that he was going to see the end of his dogs when the polar bear wandered in
Published on Tuesday, 08 July 2008 19:00 | | |
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In a village in northern Ghana, poor farmers are discovering the true cost of biofuel production.
A short film from ActionAid
Published on Tuesday, 01 July 2008 19:00 | | |
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How can we move from a culture of war to a culture of peace? Despite the huge sums poured into war, there is cause for hope, argues Robert C Koehler
The culture of war goes quietly about its business. Last week, Congress fed it another $162 billion, perhaps with some nostalgia: this was the final war-funding request of the Bush administration, the lame-duck, despised status of which making absolutely no difference in the dispatch with which the money was delivered.
Published on Tuesday, 24 June 2008 19:00 | | |
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Rarely a week seems to pass without a shocking tale of violence involving kids of school age. But a pioneering UK organisation has been developing effective ways to tackle youth conflict - with impressive results.
Published on Wednesday, 11 June 2008 19:09 | | |
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What exactly is violence? Is it an inevitable aspect of the human condition? What role do systems and cultures play in encouraging - or discouraging - violence in individuals and societies? A short talk by Kai Brand-Jacobsen
Kai Brand-Jacobsen is a practising peaceworker, and founder
and Director of the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of
Romania (PATRIR). This video courtesy of Big Picture TV.
Published on Tuesday, 03 June 2008 19:00 | | |
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Lord Paddy Ashdown, former High Representative in Bosnia and leader of the UK's
Liberal Democrat Party, shares his thoughts about how to bring peace to an increasingly unstable world.
I was going through
Paddington station the other day and somebody came up to me and said '’Ere,' he
said, 'didn’t you used to be Paddy Ashdown?' And I said 'Yes I think on
balance I probably have been at some stage or another.'