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What Should International Development Look Like After 2015?
In 2000, the member states of the United Nations made a historic commitment to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. The MDGs focus on some of the world’s most pressing development issues, such as pover...
Vomiting Values, or What Is European?
The European Union (EU) has expanded quickly over the last decade, with its latest enlargement welcoming Bulgaria and Romania in 2007. The EU’s enlargement process however, is not as straightforward as it would appear nor doe...
The Impact of Social Media on Presidential Campaigns
The 2012 US election has become a revolution in and of itself. Of course, I could be referring to the dramatic changes in campaign finances or the outlandish comments made by candidates such as Todd Aiken. However, my focus i...
Battling The Autism Stigma This October
October is Autism Awareness Month. And I think it’s important that we take a few minutes to think about that. Being a child can be difficult. Not one of us can say we had an entirely easy childhood, free of bullying and p...
COP20: Typhoon hagupit hits the Philippines
Waves consumed villages, winds warped cities, entire communities were left powerless and destitute. A year on from Typhoon Haiyan, UN delegates present in Lima, Peru for the latest round of negotiations can still vividly recall...
‘Things Fall Apart’
My maternal grandmother has been an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) since 1997, immediately after the December elections and the subsequent ethnic clashes that ensued. My maternal grandfather and his second family followed th...
