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Child soldiers of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone.

Civil wars

Children in terrorist organisations

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by Dagmar Wolf
Mauritius is trying to fight beach erosion due to rising sea levels with sand bags.

Climate action

Covid-19 and the climate crisis are linked

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by Katie Cashman
by Waldo Soto Bruna
by Luis Cisternas
Participants in an SDG conference in Kigali in 2019.

Our view

The crucial development challenge

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by Hans Dembowski
A woman reports from a village planning group in Chad.

Participation

Valuable resource

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by Frank Bliss
On 7 June, protesters in Bristol pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and later threw it into the harbour.

Development discourse

Unsustainable western exceptionalism

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visiting Washington in 1949: US President Harry Truman declared “development” of “underdeveloped” countries to be the goal of foreign policy during the Cold War.

“Development”

False promises, questionable term

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by Aram Ziai
by Julia Schöneberg
Queen Elizabeth II and President Kwame Nkrumah depicted on a billboard in Accra in 1961 ahead of the monarch’s visit to the former colony Ghana, which was then considered to be an “underdeveloped” country.

International relations

From “underdevelopment” to the SDGs

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
UN peacekeepers in Cote d’Ivoire in 2012.

Global Governance

Self-perpetuating cycles of violence

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by Florian Gaisrucker
Young Afghan victims of war.

Our view

Belonging together

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by Hans Dembowski
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