Poverty | -2010 – US Poverty 15.1% -

Many thanks to A2 student Jay Kim for this article in the Huffington Post. It shows that 42.6 million Americans (15.1%) are now below the poverty line. The official definition of poverty in the country is when a family of 4 earns less than $22,314 a year. An interesting point from the article was the [...]

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Civil Violence|-three steps to understanding the ‘mindless criminal’.-

Posted by Jaideep Gupte, Research Fellow, Conflict, Violence and Development Cluster, IDS Last weekend, twitter and various internet blogs lit up: London was under attack. Television news repeatedly showed bewildering scenes of riotous mobs on the rampage, shops being looted and buildings on fire. As the violence spread from Tottenham to several neighbourhoods across the [...]

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London|-these are mindless riots, but that doesn’t make them pointless.-

Sorry to point this out to you, but these are not pointless riots. Yes, they are sickening, and I condemn them wholeheartedly. But this does not mean that there are no underlying problems in British society that are likely to have accentuated these violent conflicts. Thuggish looting on our television screens demonstrates a group of [...]

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Hungry Planet – One Week of Food for families around the world

By Jessica Bell (CD News – Programme Coordinator) Peter Menzel documents families from around the world and what they eat in one week.  His Photo essay is the subject for his book “Hungry Planet” which visually shows the inequality surrounding the distribution of food and wealth (take a look at how much per week the [...]

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Hungry Planet – One Week of Food for families around the world

By Jessica Bell (CD News – Programme Coordinator) Peter Menzel documents families from around the world and what they eat in one week.  His Photo essay is the subject for his book "Hungry Planet" which visually shows the inequality surrounding the distribution of food and wealth (take a look at how much per week the [...]

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Musings (mijmeringen)

When I was a kid, we had a very popular topic for high school essays: "Is man better off in modern society than in primitive nature ?". I remember being astonished by the absurdity of the statement as it seemed to me then. Of course, man is better off in modern society! Look at the [...]

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