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Digital Development Debates

Dear Reader, after seven years of inspiring discussions, „Digital Development Debates“ (DDD) has been discontinued. DDD was created in 2010 as an innovative digital platform for the development community. With 20 issues and more than ...

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Time for New Stereotypes

Africa has always been the dark, hopeless or lost continent - today, it is time for a new cliché.

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New New Orleans

After Katrina New Orleans’ residents discussed: Do we want to reconstruct or reinvent our city? Award-winning journalist Jed Horne looks at New New Orleans.

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A Pirate’s Paradise

Why piracy in Somalia is worthwile for it's inhabitants

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Pakistan's Islamists on the Rise

Ideological warfare between secularists and militant Islamists is shake Pakistan's polity.

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Environmental Activists Take Back the Power

Governments are no longer the ones who rule the world, the power shifted to global megacorporations.

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The Dangerous Others

Xenophobia in South Africa is higher than anywhere else in the world.

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Facts or Rumors?

Social media plays a huge role in African conflict zones. It offers ways for evading media restrictions, but also bears dangers inherent in its use.

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For a better 2030

Labour unions played a key role in designing the Sustainable Development Goals. Now they are fighting to get them implemented – nationally and internationally

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Shopping Against Capitalism

Revolutions smash capitalism – not. Instead consumer’s disobedience will, says this intriguing short story. (Maybe.)

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Introduction: The Complex Security-Development

Introduction: The Complex Security-Developement Nexus

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Standing with God to End Oppression

Liberation theologians use Christianity as weapon in the fight for the poor. And in a way, even the pope is on their side.

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Editorial

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Pakistan: Time to Tame a Powerful Spy Agency?

How an investigative report embarrassed Pakistan’s intelligence service – and provided an opportunity to place the powerful agency under civilian control.

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