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According to the biggest headlines this summer, the world has become a dark place. Overshadowed by conflicts, media often forgets to report on positive initiatives and their impact. For this issue we searched for those people who have not ...

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Table of Contents Issue #19New Articles #19

Able to Love

Our cities and buildings are accessible for disabled people but their desire for love remains a taboo topic. Find out how this stigma can be changed.

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Prohibited Pride

Despite a ban on homosexuality, LGBT Ugandans celebrate their pride. Kasha Nabagesera, Right Livelihood Award laureate, spoke about the situation on site.

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Dangerous Waters

Beyond the world’s attention, violent crimes take place on unstable ground: Child piracy creates a legal dilemma that puts vulnerable juveniles at risk.

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The Next BIG Thing

Basic Income Guarantees (BIG) were once laughed at as utopian. But they are already today changing the lives of millions worldwide – especially in the south.

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Violence Is Not Normal

The Caucasus has been splintered by war into Georgia, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia. Three women are harnessing words to counter barbed wire.

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Editorial

DDD’s 19th issue explores how people around the world share hopes for love, peace, health, money and joy.

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The Pocket Doctors

Uganda’s tech industry is booming – health apps being one successful part of it, but funding is still challenging.

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Chapters #19

Introduction

Hope is the fuel that keeps us going. At times it may be illogical or even the last thing we have to cling to. Yet, during conflicts, disasters and despair, a gleam of hope can ignite change. But what form should that change take? Read about some ideas that are (still) utopian.

Love

Love is a unifying feeling. Some say it is boundless and unconditional. Yet it can cause the opposite. Sexual minorities share the hope that they might one day be able to express their feelings openly. Read about people around the world who are fighting to fulfill this hope.

Peace

War cuts through a society’s fabric and the more the threads of a community unravel, the more people hope for peace. In this chapter we follow women and men on three continents who are working for peace, sometimes risking their own lives in the process.

Health

We realise how essential good health is when we are faced with illness. In many cultures most of the primary care for the sick, the elderly and the young relies on women. Without them, there would be no life. Even though half of the world’s population is female, their needs are often not met.

Money

Money is at the heart of any economic activity. People hope for more money to leave poverty or to be able to fulfill their desires. The financial crisis taught us that the connection between real money and its attributed value can be lost. Read about money in the 21st century, about new mediums of exchange, basic income, and alternative forms of payment.

Joy

Children are the most joyful people – if they are lucky enough to be born into a secure environment. We think of joy as an innate quality, but in times of conflict and war, it is a fragile luxury that can be easily taken away from the ones who long for it the most. Read about places where joy is a rare good and meet people who are trying to restore it.

Beyond the magazine

“We can’t just leave solutions to the politicians“

Conference on Religion’s Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Broken Toilets

Emily Madsen and Samyuktha Varma have created an international magazine intended to change reporting on development work.

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All we like

Challenges for the Media – from Information to Participation

Just a blink of the eye in world history, the 40-year existence of the Internet has been revolutionary.

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Interview: Development Aid is Not All Plain Sailing

5 questions to Andris Piebalgs

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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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Coming Issue of DDD

For some work means fulfillment, for the majority of us it is a means to survive. For some working means calculating on a computer, for others painting a wall, others plant food to eat.
And the paradox goes even further: Politicians all over the world ask for more jobs to guarantee an income for their citizens. At the same time companies and scientist invest in new technologies to become more productive and therefore safe work.
Ever since the first introduction of machines, people are discussing, if work is still needed in the future, and how it will change. John Maynard Keynes in the 20th century expected his grandkids to be working 15 hours a week, while more skeptical voices feared mass unemployment and connected instability.
DDD issue #20 asks: What does work look like in the 21. century? And what does it mean for development cooperation?

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Featured Authors

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Franz Nuscheler is Senior Fellow at the INEF (Institute for Development and Peace) at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Johannes Kepler University Linz. »

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Jill Timms is based in the Department of Sociology at London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), where she is completing a doctoral thesis on relationships between ... »

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