The lecture formed the keynote part of the 5th International Conference on Sustainable Development "The World in 2050: Looking Ahead...
Topic: Sustainable development
Peace Education: Change Starts Here
Dawn Engle, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the The PeaceJam Foundation, shares her experience with encouraging young people from...
Challenging inequalities and unsustainabilities
Across the world, the rise of multiple forms of inequality, and growing environmental problems such as climate change and resource degradation,...
Why securitization only works in Star Wars
We live in the complex world with security becoming a more pressing issue every day. In the face of security...
Globalization, migration and future of middle class
Development @ 70: New Life or Gracious Exit?
As the era of development nears its seventh decade, and in the context of a much changed world since its...
Human Development: achievements and challenges
This lecture traces the evolution of thinking from an exclusive emphasis on economic growth to Human Development starting with the...
Education: fundamental to a country’s future
"The next century is already being built daily in today's classrooms. However, it becomes more and more obvious that family,...
2030 development agenda: from committment to action
While continuing to pull our weight as the world's largest provider of official development assistance, the EU and its Member...
New developing world’s middle class: does it matter?
History suggests that a large and secure middle class is a solid foundation on which to build and sustain an...
Life without water: what happens when glass is empty?
Environmental journalist from the Guardian, Karl Mathiesen, interviews the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate Shri Rajendra Singh who received the...
Impact of refugees crisis on Western Balkans and EU
Neither the limited local infrastructure nor tried and tested social capitals can withstand the size of the present migration challenge...
From war to development – women leading the nation
Violence is the order of our world. The « Wars in our World website listed 584 militia groups globally a...
From crisis to stability
"We live in turbulent times." With these words Carl Bildt, a former prime minister and foreign minister of Sweden, began...
E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development
Beyond crowdfunding: power of crowd in development
Financing for rural development
Why refugees need jobs, bank accounts, and insurance
Our world is in the midst of one of the most intense refugee crises it has ever seen. In fact,...
Ethics of emerging technologies
Structural reforms: lessons from other lands
Structural reform has become a major issue in Greece, as a critical component of what the country needs to do...
Sustainable Development Goals: Getting Started
Later this year, we'll see the world adopting a new set of global goals to guide us over the next...
Integrated solutions for sustainable development
Role of civil society in global governance
The experience we’ve had fighting corruption with the help of the CSO Transparency International has shown me the impact organised...
Development goals – brilliant propaganda?
Development blind spots: rethinking gender inequality
"Why it is considered reasonable to intervene when the Taliban in Afghanistan organizes to stop girls from attending school? And...
Ideology of celebrity humanitarianism
Celebrity charity work is deeply tainted and ideological. Its altruistic pretensions are belied by several accompaniments: its tendency to...
Development assistance in a new world
Extreme poverty has been halved and people have never been richer, healthier or better educated. More than 600 million people...
Bringing production back to development
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Human relations at heart of development
There remains a unshakeable assumption in the international policy community that development in one country can be switched on and...
Transition to „a developing world”
Citizen mobilisation and empowerment
Can behavioural science improve public policy?
Urban at heart of Sustainable Development Goals
Truly universal post 2015 development agenda
Traditional development concepts and their related strategies do not provide adequate answers to the emerging global problems, be they accelerated...
Kinky development – why „1$/day” doesn’t solve poverty
Foreign Policy Magazine named Pritchett as one of the top global thinkers and described his work as: “Pritchett's solution is...
