Blogs

Citizenship after the citizen’s year 2011. Michele Micheletti

Submitted on the 10th of July 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
by Michele Micheletti. No notion is more central in politics than citizenship. And none more contested. Citizenship defines how states treat their people, how citizens regard each...

Rupturing the status quo through unruly politics. Mariz Tadros

Submitted on the 27th of June 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
by Mariz Tadros. What is emerging around the globe is not another strain of new social movements, nor the return of conventional Leftist politics, nor large-scale 'advocacy...

Free Agents and followership. Allison Fine

Submitted on the 27th of June 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
by Allison Fine. On the one-year anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, Alaa abd el Fattah remained in jail. 'Democracy' today in Egypt means that people involved in the uprising...

Human Trafficking in East Africa

Submitted on the 25th of June 2012 by EA Trend Monitor Observatory.
  By Ahmed Salim  On June 22, 2012 The East African reported a story stating that Kenya, via the Kenyan Foreign Affairs Ministry, has suspended the recruitment of its citizens to...

Development 55.2 'Citizenship for Change' out now!

Submitted on the 15th of June 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
How does civic action provide possibilities in the search for new alternatives to politics and political engagement?  This issue of Development, the quarterly journal of the...

Rio +20 and The New Greed Economy

Submitted on the 15th of May 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
by Pat Mooney The 1992 Earth Summit produced a Book of Promises called Agenda 21 that included combating desertification, safeguarding forests, confronting climate change and...

‘Producing the Green Economy’: an innovative approach

Submitted on the 15th of May 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at theInstitute of Social Studies, and author of Development 55.1 ‘Greening the Economy’ describes the...

Disaster Preparedness in East Africa: Are We Prepared for a Tsunami?

Submitted on the 14th of May 2012 by EA Trend Monitor Observatory.
By Ahmed Salim  Five months after floods in Dar es Salaam gridlocked the city and put a significant proportion of homes under water, recovery efforts have stalled. On May 7, 2012...

Being Young in East Africa: Perceptions, Expectations and Reality

Submitted on the 7th of May 2012 by EA Trend Monitor Observatory.
by Ahmed Salim  It has become patently obvious that the world’s youth are having a significant influence on the political, economic and social future of society. The ‘Arab Spring...

Africa in 50 Years Time-A Vision From Tunis

Submitted on the 30th of April 2012 by EA Trend Monitor Observatory.
by Ahmed Salim The African Development Bank (AfDB) was established in July 1966 with a major role of “contributing to the economic and social progress of its regional [African]...

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