78. WE HAVE DECLARED WAR ON POVERTY AND POVERTY HAS WON. (President Lyndon Johnson, 1964)
Have you ever noticed that when we have a problem with something, we declare war on it? The war on…
Have you ever noticed that when we have a problem with something, we declare war on it? The war on…
When reading the last three (or more) Readers, it becomes clear that the question of leadership is a crucial one…
Power is to be understood here as the submission of some to the will of others. When power leads to…
As said so many times before, our ‘do-gooder’ zeal is not good enough to objectively improve the human rights (HR)…
Development in the wrong direction? Development cooperation can neither be reduced to fighting terrorism nor can development policy remain a…
Needs are met or satisfied. Rights are realized (respected, protected, facilitated and fulfilled). Needs do not imply duties or obligations,…
For claim-holders to build their capacity is for people to understand their rights, to claim them and to contribute to…
For decades the ‘Development School’ and the ‘Human Rights (HR) School’ had progressed in a parallel manner with very limited…
At the risk of sounding panfletary, I think the (mostly normative) elements that could begin making our work yield more…
Sustainable development is about processes of popular enrichment, empowerment and participation that our technocratic, project-oriented view has simply failed to…