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In brief
Think tanks
Will Swanson

Targeting hearts and minds

Making peace in unconventional wars

Disarmament
Claudia Isabel Rittel

The vision thing

Disarmement: Negotiating Obama's vision

Civil war
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Sri Lanka’s chance for peace

End of civil war: Sri Lanka's chance for peace

Rule of law
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

The trouble with Guantánamo

Rule of law. The trouble with Guantánamo

Digital divide
Claudia Isabel Rittel

A new era dawns on Africa’s east coast

Faster internet access in eastern Africa

Renewable energy
Ernst Rauch

Saharan sun to power Europe

Desertec plans to generate power from Sahara sun

Climate
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Final sprint at snail's pace

Climate negotiations inch forward slowly ahead of Copenhagen

Energy
Will Swanson

Biofuels’ hidden costs

Energy: Biofuel's hidden costs

Assessing results
Hans Dembowski
Hans Dembowski

Much activity, but no system

Assessing results: much activity, but no system in Germany's development cooperation

Climate
Claudia Isabel Rittel

Unexplored dephts

Climate: The unexplored dephts of the sea

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Poverty Reduction

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

Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
Fundamental human right under attack
Why Kenya’s youth is taking to the streets
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Gender Equality

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

The literary power of Black women writers
What Zanzibar's spices have to do with gender equality
The fate of a Rwandan man with disability
Fundamental human right under attack
Don’t leave sex education to internet pornography

Governance

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

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges

Sustainability

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

Better protection for schools in northern Nigeria
Preventing Boko Haram from recruiting young people
Evicting indigenous people
How a pedagogy of sustainability can help Africa’s future
Youth unemployment remains one of India’s great challenges