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Development and cooperation

D + C

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E + Z

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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Rehan Fernando

“Dialogue of life”

Michael Rodrigo was a Catholic priest who campaigned for religious dialogue in Sri Lanka. He called his efforts the “dialogue of life”.

Terrorism
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Roots of violence

D+C contributors assessed background of Islamist terrorism before Paris atrocities

Commodities
Philip Thon Aleu

Paralysed by fuel shortages

Fuel shortages in South Sudan lead to water shortages

BMZ
Michael Bohnet

Shifting paradigms

The BMZ must face global challenges

Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Welcoming refugees is right response to Paris atrocities

West must counteract ISIS propaganda of clashing civilisations

Books
Katharina Borchardt

Confronting a trauma

Current Indonesian literature focuses on the terror of the Suharto dictatorship

Governance
Rozina Islam

Defining corruption

Ideas about corruption diverge, so the term needs to be defined clearly

Comment
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Great nations

What makes a nation great

Burundi needs institutions, not a strongman

Women’s empowerment
Khadija Farhana

Money for women’s businesses

Special grants help poor women in Bangladesh’s urban areas

Renewable energy
Boris Schinke
Conrad Schetter

The social dimension of “desert power”

Research project on the social impacts of a concentrated solar power station in Morocco

Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Mexico must include its indigenous population in the tourism sector

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography
Modern dowry payment in Kenya
Mexico’s first female president

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

“Dialogue of life”
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
“I am angry because Kenya is not working for many of its citizens”
Why Kenya is on fire
Building bridges to reconcile religious conflicts