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THE DEMOCRATIC ILLUSION
Johan Galtung

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, MAY 2008

Democracy is about people choosing leaders who are accountable to the people. So, what kind of leaders do we choose? In the Western democracies, they are not too impressive, writes Johan Galtung, professor of Peace Studies and founder of TRANSCEND, a global peace and development network.

EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK - RECLAIMING SCHOOLS AS ZONES OF PEACE
Helene-Marie Gosselin

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, MAY 2008

Amongst the many casualties of conflict, education seldom makes the headlines, but students, teachers, administrators, and education officials are also on the front lines of battle, writes Helene-Marie Gosselin, director of the UNESCO Office to the United Nations.

CURRENT CRISIS HIGHLIGHTS FLAWS IN MARKET ECONOMICS, AND GDP
Hazel Henderson

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, MAY 2008

The credibility of the economics profession and its macroeconomic and risk models has been shattered by the Wall Street-led financial meltdown. Many analysts see this crisis as the beginning of the end of market fundamentalism as the driver of globalisation. Coming into focus is also the fact that the United States is no longer the world's lone superpower. Military force is giving way to the new weapons of choice in today's geopolitics: currency and cyber-attacks, writes Hazel Henderson, author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2007) and co-organiser of the Beyond GDP Conference in Brussels, representing the Club of Rome.

WHAT'S BEHIND SOARING COMMODITY PRICES
Jose Graziano da Silva

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, MAY 2008

There are two distinct elements driving the current commodity price increases: one is financial; the other is the hitherto unheard of shift in demand: the expansion of consumption in poor countries, writes Jose Graziano da Silva, regional representative for Latin America and the Caribbean at the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).

BHUTANESE HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF THEIR NEW PARLIAMENT
Francoise Pommaret

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, APRIL 2008

Expectations are high among the people of Bhutan for the new government to deliver on its promises, especially once the new constitution is adopted in early May when the parliament convenes, writes Francoise Pommaret, Bhutan's honourary consul in Paris and director of National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris and advisor to the Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Royal University of Bhutan.

JAPAN TAKES PROMINENT ROLE IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
Sadako Ogata

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, APRIL 2008

This year Japan will host two events that will be critical in helping to shape the African agenda: the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), to be held May 28-30, followed in July by the G8 summit in which the continent's issues will figure prominently, writes Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency and former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1991-2001).

SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION:
THE ASIAN EXPERIENCE
Biswajit Nag* - IPS/South Centre

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, APRIL 2008

Over the years South-South Cooperation has evolved from merely sharing technical know-how to cooperation for a comprehensive socio-economic transformation, writes Biswajit Nag, associate professor at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India.

MAKING HIGH COMMODITY PRICES HELP THE POOREST NATIONS
Ali Mchumo

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, APRIL 2008

Since 2001, the prices of many commodities and other natural resources have soared, providing commodity-dependent developing countries with an opportunity to use the increased revenues to combat poverty and make real economic and social gains, writes Ambassador Ali Mchumo, managing director of the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC).

NATURE IS NOT MUTE
Eduardo Galeano

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, APRIL 2008

The world is painting still lifes, forests are dying, the poles are melting, the air is becoming unbreatheable, and the water undrinkable and at the same time Ecuador is debating a new constitution that opens up the possibility for the first time ever of recognising the rights of nature, writes Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer and journalist and author of The Open Veins of Latin America, Memories of Fire and Mirrors: An Almost Universal History.

OLYMPICS MEAN TIGHTER SECURITY AT TIBET-INDIA BORDER
Dorjee

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, APRIL 2008

With the Beijing Olympics fast approaching, there will likely be a decrease in the flow of refugees entering India from Tibet because of tightened restrictions at the border. Beijing is intent on projecting the image of a united China and has no desire to have Tibetan dissidents leaving the country to tell the world about their countrymen's plight in China, writes Dorjee, director of the Dharamsala's Office of the Reception Centres which is in charge of Tibetan refugee arrivals in India.

MAO ZEDONG IS ALIVE AND KICKING IN NEPAL
Kunda Dixit

IPS COLUMNIST SERVICE, APRIL 2008

Mao Zedong is dead in China, but the Great Helmsman is alive and kicking in Nepal. What'’s more, the Himalayan Maoists have come to power not with the barrel of the gun but have been voted to government, writes Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times newspaper in Kathmandu.

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IRAQ: Running Out of Water in Rising Heat

TURKEY: Ruling Party Challenges Closure

ICELAND: Road Threatens Heritage

CHINA: Buying Farmland Abroad, Ensuring Food Security

LEBANON: Hezbollah Unleashes a Coup Bid

INDIA: Gov't 'Helpless' as Farmers Shylocked to Suicide

BRASIL: Alcohol contaminado por etanol estadounidense

ECONOMÍA-CUBA: Dualidad monetaria sigue en discusión

ELECCIONES-EEUU: La inmigración importa

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EEUU-INDIA: Acuerdo nuclear a punto de explotar

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ENERGIE : Une conférence pour éclairer l'Afrique

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