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Restoring Livelihoods and Building Resilience

Restoring Livelihoods and Building Resilience

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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Conflicts impact livelihoods in diverse ways, which can manifest in coping, survival, maladaptation, and the degradation of natural resources. Understanding the base for…
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What Are Human Rights and Why Do We Need Them?

What Are Human Rights and Why Do We Need Them?

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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Joshua Castellino addresses why the world needs human rights. He questions how the order that is created by governmental and social systems pays attention to justice. He…
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What are the Key Issues Facing Minorities and…

What are the Key Issues Facing Minorities and Indigenous Peoples?

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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This chapter begins with a case study of the Nukak Indians in Colombia, who are on the brink of total extinction. The land rights questions lies at the very heart of the…
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A Vision of Rights for the Future

A Vision of Rights for the Future

From SDG Academy on 12 August, 2019

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In addressing the sustainable development agenda of the next thirty to fifty years, it is important to bear in mind six key concerns. The first is an emphasis on…
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New and Emerging Perspectives on Global Governance

New and Emerging Perspectives on Global Governance

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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There are many different schools and approaches on how to reform global environmental governance. Deep institutional reform builds on the idea that, if you manage to…
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The Co-option of Rights

The Co-option of Rights

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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Individuals has been foregrounded within the neoliberal paradigm. The World Bank produces this paradigm through structural adjustment programs to increase economic…
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Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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Intellectual property rights guarantee that the individual who spends time constructing something new in the context of human experience can continuously claim credit in…
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Democratization and Political Participation: The…

Democratization and Political Participation: The Situation Room

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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In this chapter, Elizabeth Prügl discusses an initiative that has proliferated in Africa called the Women’s Situation Room. It responds to election violence…
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Households as Sites of Inequality

Households as Sites of Inequality

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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The household is the unit we live in. It may include our family or may not. Over time, as industrialization has occurred, the definition of family has shifted to the…
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The Gendered Experience of Poverty

The Gendered Experience of Poverty

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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There is a gendered experience of poverty: women and men experience poverty differently, and women may experience poverty differently from one another. In the case of…
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Corruption and Politics Today

Corruption and Politics Today

From SDG Academy on 8 October, 2019

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Case Study: Blood Chocolate: Cacao and Conflict…

Case Study: Blood Chocolate: Cacao and Conflict in Cote d'Ivoire

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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While acknowledging that there were a variety of factors that led to the outbreak and conduct of Cote d’Ivoire’s two civil wars, this chapter specifically…
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Global Snapshots of Social Exclusion by Continent

Global Snapshots of Social Exclusion by Continent

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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This chapter addresses the experiences of indigenous peoples beyond the European and North American experiences, such as the San in Botswana whose lands have been taken…
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Governing Global Commons

Governing Global Commons

From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019

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The regulation and enforcement of the oceans is very difficult. The Law of the Sea Convention and other landmark legal instruments have brought important progress over…
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Imagining the Anthropocene

Imagining the Anthropocene

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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Professor Garry Peterson provides a theoretical thinking approach to living in the Anthropocene. He encourages us to look at the depiction of sustainability provided…
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Root Causes and Lived Realities: Violence Against…

Root Causes and Lived Realities: Violence Against Women and Girls

From SDG Academy on 7 August, 2019

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Violence against women can be seen on three levels: the international, national, and intimate levels. We can look at psychological as well as patriarchal factors, and…

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