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On The Contrary

Part 10: The Failure of Protest

The Arab Spring, India’s anti-corruption movement, Occupy Wall Street movement have all failed – with lots of media coverage but no change in real power equations. Only twenty years ago, protest movements in Eastern Europe managed to topple autocratic regimes. What has changed? Is there a future for protest?



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Blue Peace in the Middle East

HRH Prince Hassan to Chair High Level Group

HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, former Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis of Turkey and former Finance Minister Mohamad Chatah of Lebanon are members of a new High Level Group on regional water cooperation in the Middle East, launched at a meeting held in the Royal Scientific Soceity, Amman in April 2012.

The High Level Group will promote the Blue Peace process for advancing regional cooperation in water between Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey for two years with support from the Government of Switzerland and intellectual partnership with Strategic Foresight Group.

Press Note: High Level Group

Media Coverage

Blue Peace Report featured in House of Lords (UK) Debate

Workshop on Cooperation Council for Water Resources in the Middle East

The Blue Peace: Highlights in English

The Blue Peace: Highlights in Arabic

Summary of Recommendations (in English)

Abridged edition (Arabic Translation by Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

Launch and Presentations

Middle East Water Resources Map

Mega Arc of Hydro-Insecurity - Map

Blue Peace for the Nile


SFG and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation hosted an international workshop bringing together over 35 policy makers and parliamentarians from the Nile River Basin countries in Zurich on February 23-24, 2012. It was organised in partnership with Political Directorate of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

HE Charity Ngilu, Chairman of Nile Council of Ministers and Minister for Water and Irrigation of Kenya delivered the keynote address. The participants identified key natural and political challenges and many different ways to make a breakthrough.

Workshop Report

Keynote Address by Minister Charity Ngilu

Opening Address by Dr Martin Dahinden, Director General of SDC

 

Beyond the Horizon
Part 6 : Water Footprint: The Next Big Thing

Ilmas Futehally

There are many different ways of calculating the water footprint of a product or a country. Ilmas Futehally examines some of them, their usefulness and their ramifications for the future.




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What Others Say

The Future of Africa - Vision 2030

President Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria, and currently UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for Great Lakes, was due to address the Nile Workshop co-hosted by SFG and SDC in Zurich in February 2012. He had to rush to Senegal to contain election violence at the request of the African Union. However, he sent an inspiring message on the Future of Africa.





The Future of Africa by President Obasanjo

SFG News

Catalysts For Change : Paths Out Of Poverty

SFG's Horizon Scanning Unit participated in the Catalysts For Change: Paths Out of Poverty game, organized by the Rockefeller Foundation and Institute for the Future, from April 3-5, 2012.








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Looking Ahead

Every month Strategic Foresight Group's research team conducts in-depth analysis on current and future political events. The articles below include a range of perspectives on regional and global issues.

In this month's issue we discuss:

  • Sudan and South Sudan in the East African Community? - by Ekta Talwar - New
  • Pakistan's Backbone - by Anumita Raj - New
  • The Iran Quagmire - by Ambika Vishwanath
  • The ‘Defence’ of Pakistan - by Sahiba Trivedi

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