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Gambling and other forms of addictive behaviour are particularly common in unequal societies – slot machines in Las Vegas.

Inequality

How addictive behaviours are linked to inequality

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by Hans Dembowski
Screenshot – website of LMU’s Center for International Health.

Universities

International network

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by Manuel Parra
In Brazil, rain forest has been destroyed to create grazing grounds.

Environmentalism

More satisfaction and happiness

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by Hans Dembowski
Development policy must do more to protect children: needy children receive a warm meal in Zambia.

Development policy

Too little and too unambitious

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Distance learning in Kakuma, a Kenyan refugee camp.

Digital technology

Choosing the right approach

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by Cema Tork
Western countries are struggling with ISIS returnees: British jihadist Shamima Begum with her baby who died of pneumonia in a Syrian refugee camp in February.

Jihadists

Why women join the “holy war”

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by Dagmar Wolf
The French and German ministers of defence, Florence Parly and Ursula von der Leyen, with their Nigerian counterpart Kalla Moutari visiting the construction site of the headquarters of the G5 Sahel Joint Force in Niamey in 2017.

Sahel zone

“Securitisation does not create security”

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by Katja Dombrowski

Nexus

Points to keep in mind

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by Fabian Böckler

Disadvantaged communities

Low-cost private schools

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by Alphonce Shiundu
Alphonce Shiundu
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