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President's Column |
On The Contrary |
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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
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Blue Peace for the Nile
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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
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Beyond the
Horizon
Part 6 : Water Footprint: The Next Big Thing |
Ilmas Futehally |
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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
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 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
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SFG News
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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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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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