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Governance

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

“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”.

Conflict research

Go into the field

As conflicts change, research about them needs to take new directions

Nowadays

The way to avoid diseases

More toilets will lead to less diseases

Infrastructure

Renewable energy

Obstacles to expanding renewable energy in Pakistan

Peacebuilding

Breaking the silence

How raped women in Guatemala found the courage to talk about their fate

Tuberculosis

Saving lives through discipline

Tuberculosis remains a huge challenge in Central Asia

Health care

Global responsibility

A global health fund could have prevented the spread of Ebola in West Africa

Editorial

Questions of ownership

Development success depends on national ownership

Relevant reading

Reduced inequality in Latin America

Rainer Thiele: Relevant reading on Latin America's reduced income disparities

Polio disease

The end of a long struggle

Thanks to systematic vaccination and awareness raising, India is now free of Polio

News

In brief

Regime change in Burkina Faso / G20 demand action on climate change

Sustainability

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