Bonn, 22. April 2015
Die deutsche Entwicklungspolitik war unter den bislang 13 Ministerinnen und Ministern durch ein Wechselbad von Strategien geprägt. Deutschland-, Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, Wirtschafts- und Rohstoffpolitik sowie Umwelt- und Friedenspolitik waren stets durchwoben von ethisch-humanitären Motiven. Der Autor skizziert diese häufigen…
Bonn, 16. April 2015
2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. Both the world and the UN have changed since its 51 founding members signed the UN Charter on 26 June 1945 to prevent the doom of another World War. Today, the UN totals 193 member states while the nature and scope of the United Nations' activities have greatly expanded. Moreover,…
Bonn, 15. April 2015
The organisers welcomed about 55 international participants to join the workshop on “ Measuring the social, economic and political effects of social protection: How to overcome the challenges? ” on 15-17 April 2015 at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, Germany. The Workshop has…
Bonn, 09. April 2015
A year ago on 16th March 2014 the Autonomous Republic of Crimea held a highly controversial referendum on its legal status. A translation of the referendum questions from Ukrainian and Russian to English indicated a choice between autonomy within Ukraine as per the 1992 constitution or joining the Russian Federation. Maintaining the…
Tawfik, Rawia (2015) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 25. März 2015
The Declaration of Principles on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has sparked much controversy among experts and commentators in Egypt.
Bonn, 25. März 2015
Among both practitioners and scholars of democracy promotion, there is broad consensus that democracy is not simply a good that can be exported from one country to another. External democracy promotion, by definition, involves a complex sort of interaction between external and local actors that can hardly be grasped by the notion of a…
Bonn, 19. März 2015
A new global order is in the making. Basic global principles such as the Westphalian order are eroding and seem to lose support globally. Equally, democracy has been on decline since 2006. Freedom House’s report Freedom in the World 2015 highlights new and disturbing global trends, including a more explicit rejection of democratic…
Tokyo, 19. März 2015
The world is now witnessing a rising prominence of so-called “emerging economies” such as China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa in the international political and economic sphere. The emerging economies’ role in the discussions over the post 2015 development agenda as well as their prospect for ever active engagement in the future…
Bonn, 16. März 2015
In the last three decades, the number of democracies held steady or expanded every year from 1975 until 2007. Nothing like this continuous growth in democracy ever had been seen before in the history of the world. But then, around 2006, the expansion of freedom and democracy in the world came to a prolonged halt. Since then, there has…
Bonn, 12. März 2015
The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) invited to a public brown bag lunch with Ryan Muldoon, member of the Core Team of the 2015 World Development Report, and Senior Research Fellow in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at the University of Pennsylvania. The World Development…
Bonn, 11. März 2015
Christiane Zarfl (Universität Tübingen, IGB) und Klement Tockner, Leiter des Leibniz-Instituts für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) warnen in ihrer neuen Studie „A global boom of hydropower dam construction“ (Aquatic Sciences 2014) vor den dramatischen Folgen, die der Bau von Wasserkraftanlagen haben kann. Da mit der rasanten…
Bonn, 05. März 2015
The European Network for Conflict Research (ENCoRe) meets biannually to discuss developments in conflict data and analysis. ENCoRe brings together scholars from renowned universities across Europe and is funded as a COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) action. The Bonn meeting 2015 drawed on the research conducted over…
SDSN Deutschland: Führende Wissensinstitutionen benennen Lenkungsausschuss Direkt zu: Führende Wissensinstitutionen benennen Lenkungsausschuss für neue deutsche Nachhaltigkeitsinitiative Führende Wissensinstitutionen benennen Lenkungsausschuss für neue deutsche Nachhaltigkeitsinitiative Pressemitteilung vom 09.05.2014 Zehn deutsche Wissensinstitutionen benannten heute erste Mitglieder für den prominent besetzen Lenkungsausschuss des neuen deutschen Sustainable…
Erweiterter Lenkungsausschuss von SDSN Germany: Deutsche Nachhaltigkeitsarchitektur stärken Erweiterter Lenkungsausschuss von SDSN Germany: Deutsche Nachhaltigkeitsarchitektur stärken Pressemitteilung vom 02.03.2015 Bonn / Berlin. Auf Einladung der Co-Vorsitzenden des deutschen Sustainable Development Solutions Network ( SDSN Germany ) Dirk Messner und Klaus Töpfer, tagte am 26. Februar in Berlin erstmals dessen Erweiterter Lenkungsausschuss. Dem erweiterten…
Diamond, Larry (2015) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 23. Februar 2015
Why have freedom and democracy been regressing in many countries? The most important and pervasive answer is bad governance.
Bonn, 11. Februar 2015
Cities present a crucial challenge and opportunity in the coming decades, as more than 2.5 billion people are expected to be added to the world’s urban areas by 2050. There is strong evidence that improved economic productivity and resource efficiency that accompany urbanization can be achieved while simultaneously addressing the…
Scholz, Imme (2014) Mitarbeiter sonstige
Pérez Pineda, Jorge A. (2015) Die aktuelle Kolumne, 04. Februar 2015
Even if there is “One World”, there is not a “one size fits all” solution for its problems. This means, how does Germany include the “common but differentiated responsibilities” statement in the Charter for the Future?
Bonn, 03. Februar 2015
Diskussion: Christine Hackenesch , Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) Irene Knoke , Institut SÜDWIND Winfried Polte , Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Moderation: Reinhard Hermle , Forum Eine Welt der NRWSPD China erscheint allgegenwärtig in Afrika. Sein Engagement wird allerdings sehr kontrovers diskutiert. Insbesondere in…
Bonn, 28. Januar 2015
Urbanization is a mega trend that is shaping our future. By 2050, two thirds of the world population will live in cities. Both the potential as well as the challenges of global development will be decided in urban areas. The current preparations for Habitat III, the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban…
