Showing posts with label breadth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breadth. Show all posts
Monday, 7 May 2012
America's homeless resort to tent cities
Development isn't always straight forward! Read about America's homeless living n tent cities here.
Syria's escalating conflict
Aid needed in the Sahel (again!)
Oxfam says urgent action is needed to stop drought in the Sahel region of West Africa turning into a humanitarian disaster.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17308913
Soldiers loot after coup in Mali
Renegade troops in Mali loot the presidential palace in the capital as the leaders of the coup call for calm and say all borders are closed.
< http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17474946 >
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
So you want a revolution?
Who is Srdja Popovic?
Question: what do the so-called "colour" revolutions – Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004), and the rest – have in common with the uprising that drove Egypt's Hosni Mubarak from power? Answer: the great majority of the people involved avoided committing acts of violence; and the organisers took advice from a young Serbian revolutionary called Srdja Popovic and his colleagues.
Read the full article here.
Question: what do the so-called "colour" revolutions – Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004), and the rest – have in common with the uprising that drove Egypt's Hosni Mubarak from power? Answer: the great majority of the people involved avoided committing acts of violence; and the organisers took advice from a young Serbian revolutionary called Srdja Popovic and his colleagues.
Read the full article here.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Kosovo Serbs defy Nato demands over blockades
Kosovo Serbs defy Nato demands over blockades.
"Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo have defied demands by Nato to remove roadblocks, amid tensions over control of border crossings between Serbia and Kosovo.
Nato peacekeepers had given the minority Serbs until Tuesday to remove barricades set up at two crossings. But Nato troops sent to the area left without dismantling them in an apparent bid to give the Serbs more time. The blockades were erected in July when the mainly ethnic Albanian government sought to seize the crossings."
Read the full article here.
"Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo have defied demands by Nato to remove roadblocks, amid tensions over control of border crossings between Serbia and Kosovo.
Nato peacekeepers had given the minority Serbs until Tuesday to remove barricades set up at two crossings. But Nato troops sent to the area left without dismantling them in an apparent bid to give the Serbs more time. The blockades were erected in July when the mainly ethnic Albanian government sought to seize the crossings."
Read the full article here.
Thursday, 11 August 2011
Africa's mobile economic revolution
The article here describes how the massive growth in mobile phone ownership is fuelling Africa's economic growth.
From the article:'Africa has experienced an incredible boom in mobile phone use over the past decade. In 1998, there were fewer than four million mobiles on the continent. Today, there are more than 500 million. In Uganda alone, 10 million people, or about 30% of the population, own a mobile phone, and that number is growing rapidly every year.'
From the article:'Africa has experienced an incredible boom in mobile phone use over the past decade. In 1998, there were fewer than four million mobiles on the continent. Today, there are more than 500 million. In Uganda alone, 10 million people, or about 30% of the population, own a mobile phone, and that number is growing rapidly every year.'
Swazi HIV patients 'eat cow dung'
Some HIV-positive patients in Swaziland are so poor they are eating cow dung to fill their stomachs and make anti-retroviral drugs effective, activists say. Read the story on the BBC news website here.
Tiny blood card offers easy tests
A cheap and portable blood test could provide a breakthrough for diagnosing infections in remote areas, a study in the journal Nature Medicine says. Read the story on the BBC website here. The U.S developed device will cost about 60p and has shown almost 100% accuracy in tests for HIV and Syphilis in Rwanda.
The researchers hope the device will boost testing of pregnant women, especially in Africa.
Barely a quarter of pregnant women in low and middle income countries are tested for HIV, a figure which provides scant hoping of reaching the United Nations goal of eliminating mother-to-child transmission by 2015, according to the 2010 UNAids Report on the Global Aids Epidemic.
In Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, for example, only nine and six percent, respectively, of pregnant women currently receive HIV testing, according to the report.
The researchers hope the device will boost testing of pregnant women, especially in Africa.
Barely a quarter of pregnant women in low and middle income countries are tested for HIV, a figure which provides scant hoping of reaching the United Nations goal of eliminating mother-to-child transmission by 2015, according to the 2010 UNAids Report on the Global Aids Epidemic.
In Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, for example, only nine and six percent, respectively, of pregnant women currently receive HIV testing, according to the report.
China's illegal children will be confiscated
A brief editorial from The Economist (found here) suggests this is one way the One Child Policy is being enforced.
It is fairly clear that although the policy has had noticeable success in it's original aim of reducing the birth rate in China, the policy has created demographic issues that will need tro be dealt with in the future.
It is fairly clear that although the policy has had noticeable success in it's original aim of reducing the birth rate in China, the policy has created demographic issues that will need tro be dealt with in the future.
U.S. Debt
Who does the USA owe money to and how does this affect the global balance of power?
The map here shows who the USA owe money to and how the amounts have changed over time.
The website says:
Our goal with this visualization was to show which countries are lending us money and to let people interact with data on a country by country basis to see how this lending has changed over time. For example, mousing over the large dot on China shows that Chinese lending to the United States has gone from $59 billion ten years ago to more than $1.15 trillion today, or one quarter of the total foreign owned debt of $4.45 trillion.
If the USA owes so much money to China where does that leave our traditional view that the USA is 'developed' and that China is 'developing' or an emerging economy?
The map here shows who the USA owe money to and how the amounts have changed over time.
The website says:
Our goal with this visualization was to show which countries are lending us money and to let people interact with data on a country by country basis to see how this lending has changed over time. For example, mousing over the large dot on China shows that Chinese lending to the United States has gone from $59 billion ten years ago to more than $1.15 trillion today, or one quarter of the total foreign owned debt of $4.45 trillion.
If the USA owes so much money to China where does that leave our traditional view that the USA is 'developed' and that China is 'developing' or an emerging economy?
The London Riots and Poverty
There has been a lot of news coverage about the London Riots this week but the causes of the riots are extremely complex. Is there a link between poverty and the riots? Have a look at the map here which shows poverty and the areas of the rioting. Is there a link?
From this same page you can also access the Guardian's interactive map about the riots.
There is an alternative map looking at deprivation and the location of the riots here.
This short post here
examines the link between the riot areas and areas of child poverty.
From this same page you can also access the Guardian's interactive map about the riots.
There is an alternative map looking at deprivation and the location of the riots here.
This short post here
examines the link between the riot areas and areas of child poverty.
Friday, 27 May 2011
Impacts of war
This website is excellent for your 'breadth' examples of the environmental and social impacts of war. Remember to only use examples from the last 30 years though.
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Georgia uprising
The news is reporting that 10,0000 people in Georgia's capital Tbilisi have been stopped from demonstrating by riot police with water canons. The full story is here. This is a good example of the way conflict is expressed (demonstrations) and the reasons for the conflict (poverty, low pensions, rising food prices and unhappiness with the way the President has dealt with these issues). The current President came to power in 2004 after a popular uprising toppled his predecessor, Eduard Shevardnadze.
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Timor-Leste's journey to development
Since Timor-Leste was recognised as independent in 2002 it has been successful in starting to move from being a fragile state along the development pathway. This article details how the country has managed to increase it's GDP by 228% between 2005 and 2010.
This would be a good example to use for the Conflicts issue "No development without security and no security without development".
Friday, 20 May 2011
This is a useful example that covers several aspects of the Conflicts syllabus
Consequences Of Conflict In Sri Lanka
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