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Nairobians protesting against police violence.

Our view

Black lives matter

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by Hans Dembowski
In 2016, after around 50 years of civil war, Colombia’s then President Juan Manuel Santos signed a peace deal with the FARC rebels.

United Nations

New approach to conflict prevention

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Education matters: a high-school student doing homework in rural Burkina Faso.

UNDP

“Governance is fundamental”

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by Achim Steiner
by Hans Dembowski
Climate protesters with Covid-19-masks in Lausanne in late May.

World in crisis

Why we need global cooperation

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by Hans Dembowski
Locusts on a Kenyan farm in January 2020.

Multiple crisis

Falling back

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by Belay Begashaw
Photo safari in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Park: tourism has collapsed because of the pandemic.

African perspectives

Triple challenge

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by James Shikwati
Protest at a time of pandemic: demonstrators in Chicago on 30 May. Before dying in police custody in Minneapolis, George Floyd had said “I can't breathe”, but the officer holding him down did not remove his knee from his neck.

Power vacuum in international affairs

No meaningful global leadership

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by Hans Dembowski
We'd love to spend our time on something else than fetching water.

UN prognosis

The climate crisis is ­­exacerbating water stress

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by Sarah Josef
Carbon intensive power plant: coal-fired electrical plant Lethabo Power Station in South Africa.

Climate protection

Appropriate carbon prices

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by Hans-Jochen Luhmann
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
by Hans Dembowski
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