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IP, Vaccine Imperialism Cause Death and Suffering, Delay Recovery

Let’s Not Over-Hype Glasgow’s COP 26

Covid-19 Vaccine: COVAX and Western Dominance

Hungary How to Cook Hungarian Democracy Goulash

By Peter Kakucska

Tip: For this goulash, we recommend that you use a relatively young democracy as the main ingredient. We are basing this recipe on the most infamous of Hungarian master chefs – Viktor Orbán, t...
Environment The Challenge of Growing Food in the Heart of the Bolivian Altiplano

By Juan Torregrosa Rodríguez

Officially recognised as one of the New 7 Wonder Cities of the World in 2015, La Paz, the administrative capital of Bolivia, is globally known for its unstable weather conditions. Located at 3...

Analysis The Potential for Sustainable European Agriculture

By Daniel Orth

How the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy needs to address its shortcomings to build a future-ready food system. The European Commission published its “Farm to Fork Strategy” (F2F Strategy) on May 20...
Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: Data Privacy: Is Your Information Really Yours?

By Keith Kenedy Miller

Having covered the rules that protect your access to the data of others in our previous article, the natural follow up is to discuss how your personal data is protected. Data privacy has becom...

Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: Net Neutrality, Keeping the Balance

By Keith Kenedy Miller

Having discussed how data is registered and located on the worldwide web, there is one more factor to discuss concerning your connection to the internet. As the data moves across the network ...
Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: What’s in a (Domain) Name?

By Keith Kenedy Miller

In my previous article in the “Codifying the Cyber Commons” series, I discussed how the data that makes up the internet physically moves around the world. However, to start that movement, some...

Hungary How to Cook Hungarian Democracy Goulash

By Peter Kakucska

Tip: For this goulash, we recommend that you use a relatively young democracy as the main ingredient. We are basing this recipe on the most infamous of Hungarian master chefs – Viktor Orbán, t...

Environment The Challenge of Growing Food in the Heart of the Bolivian Altiplano

By Juan Torregrosa Rodríguez

Officially recognised as one of the New 7 Wonder Cities of the World in 2015, La Paz, the administrative capital of Bolivia, is globally known for its unstable weather conditions. Located at 3...

Analysis The Potential for Sustainable European Agriculture

By Daniel Orth

How the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy needs to address its shortcomings to build a future-ready food system. The European Commission published its “Farm to Fork Strategy” (F2F Strategy) on May 20...

Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: Data Privacy: Is Your Information Really Yours?

By Keith Kenedy Miller

Having covered the rules that protect your access to the data of others in our previous article, the natural follow up is to discuss how your personal data is protected. Data privacy has becom...

Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: Net Neutrality, Keeping the Balance

By Keith Kenedy Miller

Having discussed how data is registered and located on the worldwide web, there is one more factor to discuss concerning your connection to the internet. As the data moves across the network ...

Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: What’s in a (Domain) Name?

By Keith Kenedy Miller

In my previous article in the “Codifying the Cyber Commons” series, I discussed how the data that makes up the internet physically moves around the world. However, to start that movement, some...

Science, Travel Why COVID-19 Vaccination Passports Are a Bad Idea

By Pascale Brudon

Vaccination is underway and it is great news… However, according to the WHO, “94% of countries that have started vaccinating their populations are in the high- or high-middle income category.”...
Science & Technology Do People Trust Science? Modern Technology and The Future of Science Communication

By Daniel Orth

Commemorating Charles Darwin, his contributions to science, and the importance of reason, the scientific community celebrates Darwin Day on February 12. The English scientist is probably best ...

Climate What Can the Carbon Trading Debate Teach Us About Global Climate Governance?

By Stuart Best

As international issues go, climate change is unique in that it will, without exception, impact every single country on Earth. The responsibility for it is therefore shared widely among countr...
Dialogue You don’t know me but I’m your brother

By Yoriko Yasukawa

Many times, over my long career with the United Nations system, I quoted these lyrics from the Doobie Brothers song, ‘Takin’ It to the Streets,’ to explain the meaning of human rights. These l...

Dialogue Political Education and Youth Apathy

By Sean Bennett

This is an abridged version of the original article published on the author’s blog, The Political Abyss, which you can access here. The last few years have been awash with political upheaval, ...
Dialogue The role of Young People in addressing Climate Change

By Manan Shah

Climate Change – unheard of before the 1950s, is now the most significant issue against which humanity has to fight. Our planet Earth has existed for billions of years and has seen a great num...

Science, Travel Why COVID-19 Vaccination Passports Are a Bad Idea

By Pascale Brudon

Vaccination is underway and it is great news… However, according to the WHO, “94% of countries that have started vaccinating their populations are in the high- or high-middle income category.”...

Science & Technology Do People Trust Science? Modern Technology and The Future of Science Communication

By Daniel Orth

Commemorating Charles Darwin, his contributions to science, and the importance of reason, the scientific community celebrates Darwin Day on February 12. The English scientist is probably best ...

Climate What Can the Carbon Trading Debate Teach Us About Global Climate Governance?

By Stuart Best

As international issues go, climate change is unique in that it will, without exception, impact every single country on Earth. The responsibility for it is therefore shared widely among countr...

Dialogue You don’t know me but I’m your brother

By Yoriko Yasukawa

Many times, over my long career with the United Nations system, I quoted these lyrics from the Doobie Brothers song, ‘Takin’ It to the Streets,’ to explain the meaning of human rights. These l...

Dialogue Political Education and Youth Apathy

By Sean Bennett

This is an abridged version of the original article published on the author’s blog, The Political Abyss, which you can access here. The last few years have been awash with political upheaval, ...

Dialogue The role of Young People in addressing Climate Change

By Manan Shah

Climate Change – unheard of before the 1950s, is now the most significant issue against which humanity has to fight. Our planet Earth has existed for billions of years and has seen a great num...

The invisible ones: people with disabilities in Latin America

By Renata Juliotti

“I feel the pandemic has highlighted the invisibility of people with disabilities,” said the mother of Luigi Gabriel, a 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. Throughout history, it has been prov...

COVID-19, risk communication and the crucial role of community leaders

By Cilene Victor

As I am writing this article, someone is being infected by the novel coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) around the world and the statistics of the pandemic are updated and disseminated by some online pl...

My Greek grandmother broke her leg, but the health system needed more help

By Niko Costantino

The story of my grandma shows what can happen to EU citizens if their country cannot pay for its health system.

Editorials International Day of Women and Girls in STEM: Interviews and Perspectives on Nursing an...

By Katoikos

In these trying times of COVID-19, nurses have rightly come to be heralded as heroes, not only of their communities, but of the world at large. It is apt, therefore, for Katoikos to look at th...
Op-ed Myanmar: Democracy in Peril

By Hitoki Den

History cannot be allowed to repeat itself The detention of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders of the civilian government in a military coup staged earlier this week put Myan...
Editorials Rethinking education in light of COVID-19 and digitalization

By Katoikos

Pandemic-related lockdowns have had devastating effects on education systems around the globe. Overnight, everyone was required to go digital, exposing the gap between our fast-changing and in...

Editorials For the Biden Administration: Return to Pre-Trump Multilateralism Not an Option

By Katoikos

By Richard Kinley, Georgios Kostakos and Harris Gleckman* With Joe Biden set to assume office on 20 January, there is great expectation at the return of the US to the multilateral fold, to r...
Editorials There is hope at the end of this long winter…

By Katoikos

Winter, as the coldest of seasons, where it exists, may be in danger because of climate change and resulting higher temperatures. But the winter that our souls have experienced over the past y...
In memoriam: Pierre Cardin

By Alexandros Kapelis

Great sadness at the loss of a giant who touched my life in a unique way. In his long life, M. Cardin was met and fêted by countless celebrities, political leaders, royalty, and just about eve...

Editorials The Shadow Pandemic fought with Music

By Katoikos

COVID-19 and subsequent lockdowns worldwide have exacerbated one major societal issue, a pandemic hidden in the intimate sphere: domestic violence. Incidents of psychological and physical abus...
Op-ed COVID-19, the US Election, and the World

By Tapio Kanninen

Political scenarios – negative and positive* Back in May, Georgios Kostakos and I published two articles (see them here and here) on the global and national responses to Covid-19, and its im...
Editorials International Day of Democracy

By Katoikos

On this International Day of Democracy, we at Katoikos and FOGGS wanted to take this opportunity to discuss the Hexalogue and its connection to global democracy. While all six components of ou...

Editorials International Day of Women and Girls in STEM: Interviews and Perspectives on Nursing an...

By Katoikos

In these trying times of COVID-19, nurses have rightly come to be heralded as heroes, not only of their communities, but of the world at large. It is apt, therefore, for Katoikos to look at th...

Op-ed Myanmar: Democracy in Peril

By Hitoki Den

History cannot be allowed to repeat itself The detention of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders of the civilian government in a military coup staged earlier this week put Myan...

Editorials Rethinking education in light of COVID-19 and digitalization

By Katoikos

Pandemic-related lockdowns have had devastating effects on education systems around the globe. Overnight, everyone was required to go digital, exposing the gap between our fast-changing and in...

Editorials For the Biden Administration: Return to Pre-Trump Multilateralism Not an Option

By Katoikos

By Richard Kinley, Georgios Kostakos and Harris Gleckman* With Joe Biden set to assume office on 20 January, there is great expectation at the return of the US to the multilateral fold, to r...

Editorials There is hope at the end of this long winter…

By Katoikos

Winter, as the coldest of seasons, where it exists, may be in danger because of climate change and resulting higher temperatures. But the winter that our souls have experienced over the past y...

In memoriam: Pierre Cardin

By Alexandros Kapelis

Great sadness at the loss of a giant who touched my life in a unique way. In his long life, M. Cardin was met and fêted by countless celebrities, political leaders, royalty, and just about eve...

Editorials The Shadow Pandemic fought with Music

By Katoikos

COVID-19 and subsequent lockdowns worldwide have exacerbated one major societal issue, a pandemic hidden in the intimate sphere: domestic violence. Incidents of psychological and physical abus...

Op-ed COVID-19, the US Election, and the World

By Tapio Kanninen

Political scenarios – negative and positive* Back in May, Georgios Kostakos and I published two articles (see them here and here) on the global and national responses to Covid-19, and its im...

Editorials International Day of Democracy

By Katoikos

On this International Day of Democracy, we at Katoikos and FOGGS wanted to take this opportunity to discuss the Hexalogue and its connection to global democracy. While all six components of ou...

UN75+25: The Pandemic as another Chance for Opening towards Omnilateralism?

By Wolfgang Pape

Calculations by the London School of Economics show it clearly. If early on Wuhan could have directly informed a truly “global health organisation” and the epidemic thus been restricted to its...

UN75+25: A history model for a model future

By Savio Alencar

The United Nations (UN) is formed by the so-called Member States that assemble to promote both world peace and world unity. However, despite humanitarian actions to help nations that suffer fr...

UN75+25: For a future that does not choose economy over life

By Thainá Freitas

We are living in dark times because of the pandemic of COVID-19, which has been affecting many structures of society. Many of the social and economic problems, though, are a historical phenome...

Artist of the Month Piera Van de Wiel: Musician, Actress and Humanitarian Activist

By Katoikos

Piera Van de Wiel is a British singer-songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur who utilizes her art to raise awareness of global issues. She is passionate about social impact and storytelling and...

Art Water is Life

By Bob Haverluck

Artist of the Month Bob Haverluck: Artist, Theologian and Defender of the Earth

By Katoikos

Artist of the Month Bob Haverluck is a storyteller, cartoonist, and theologian who lives on the bank of the Red River on its way to Hudson Bay. Underlying his work is the question “How mi...

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By Katoikos

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