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Moving from the Caribbean to Europe was an interesting experience for me. One thing that really astonished me was how integrated EU countries were. I hadn’t realized (prior to moving [...]
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In the conservative Muslim culture of Mali, women fulfill their traditional gender roles of raising children, tending the [...]
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There’s an old Communist-era joke that neatly sums up the way most Romanians think about the relationship between the state and the individual. It hinges on a play on words [...]
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My recurring stomach issues got me thinking that there are serious problems with the food available on the market. Whenever I've had the chance to eat out, the usual after [...]
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It can be difficult to gauge the balance between making university places accessible but also maintaining their value – here’s how Singapore does it University degrees are a strange commodity. They [...]
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This recent article from Salon describes the evolution of a zero-sum game scenario between the Indigenous Amazonian Shuar tribe and international mining companies backed by the Ecuadorian [...]
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A citizen and his State. This relationship is at the forefront of discussion as the welfare state tests its limits and migration patterns become increasingly metropolitan. Thanks in particular to [...]
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“You cannot drive change into a community and unload it off the back of a truck. That is the lesson of the Intervention.” —Northern Territory Emergency Response [...]
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The Nile: There Won’t Be Enough for Everybody Is the post-revolution change in Egyptian leadership bringing about a shift in foreign policy towards the nations of the Nile Basin? The Nile River [...]
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In the middle of March in Brussels about 40 representatives of civil society from European Union candidate countries (South-East Europe, Turkey and Iceland) attended the European Commission study tour “Direct [...]
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I have been mulling over how to frame my thoughts about the 'relationship trouble' between the people and the institutions that govern them. On FutureChallenges, Corina Murafa phrased [...]
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The crisis in Europe is starting to cause the demolition of the so-called "Welfare State" in many countries while others are struggling to hold it together. At the same time, [...]
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Last Saturday, some Egyptian activists went to demonstrate at the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters. They demonstrated by drawing arrows on the street pointing to the headquarters and proclaiming, “here lies the [...]
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There is one remarkable thing about Icelandic doctors: they actually work in Iceland. Despite lower salaries and longer hours that they could expect in many other countries, they usually return [...]
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Bhutanese women have always enjoyed a privileged gender status unlike their counterparts in neighboring countries. Many of them are trailblazers in their work on issues of domestic violence, good governance [...]
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Abstract: The government of Nicaragua announced in January of this year a campaign that is being called, in short, “Vivir bonito” (“Living pretty”). The initial 14 point plan doesn’t specify [...]
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The Maldives’ Former President is Not About to Go Quietly In the European mind, the Maldives is a tranquil island paradise of exotic settlements and sun-kissed beaches. In February 2012, the [...]
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I made a decision this morning, and that is to be very rich. Mind you, I have always wanted to be rich, but this morning I decided on a new [...]
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“Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Being a man or a woman who makes a difference is a matter of choice” Chhavi Rajawat, the young woman [...]
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When the Future Challenges Team put out a call for local views on International Women’s Day, I thought long and hard. The first [...]
