-A defiant development strategy is to reverse the ‘normal’. So, should development be ‘delivered’ or be participatory? You know the answer… -As a development motivation in this tinderbox, compassion is…
(Alex Gladstein, RobertoSavio) -The problem with using statistics to sing the praises of autocracy is that collecting verifiable data inside closed societies is nearly impossible. 1. The data that ‘proves’…
(Louis Casado) -Along human history, fictitious stories, over and over, succeeded over the truth. For hundreds of years, historians have known this. This is why they so often have had…
I think that, like in boxing, the Left has received a big blow and is groggy, not knowing where to go (Boaventura de Souza Santos) 15. The history of political…
(Claudio Sepulveda) Politics is not the art of the possible, but the result of the correlation of forces (Louis Casado) 1. These days, in so many countries, politics are not…
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1. Democracy is a constant struggle for compromise –forever a construction site. An end is never in sight as people will always have to renegotiate how they live together. This…
*: Does this include us all reading this? Human rights remain far from being universalized -A good friend tells me that the problem with many of our peers and colleagues…
Corporate Agendas 21. Behind every multistakeholder initiative (MSI), there is a decision by a corporation to engage since, at best, it is keen to improve its social and environmental record…
(adapted and summarized from Nick Buxton, editor, TNI) -As public-private partnerships (PPPs) mushroom, core human rights mechanisms established since the late 1940s are being underfinanced and weakened. Defining multistakeholderism 1.…