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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...
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Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: Data Privacy: Is Your Information Really Yours?
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...
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Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: Net Neutrality, Keeping the Balance
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 ...
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Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: What’s in a (Domain) Name?
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...
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Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: Ensuring Free Access Points
Today, everything seems to be at our fingertips. The internet brings a wealth of information, entertainment, and products to our door on demand. You can take classes from world renowned expert...
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Analysis The Coronavirus vs. Multilateralism: Who Will Win?
By Harris Gleckman and Georgios Kostakos
This article was originally published on Passblue and can be accessed by clicking here. Covid-19 has pretty much shut down important negotiations at the United Nations, ranging from climate ch...
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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...
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Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: Data Privacy: Is Your Information Really Yours?
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...
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Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: Net Neutrality, Keeping the Balance
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 ...
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Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: What’s in a (Domain) Name?
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...
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Analysis Codifying the Cyber Commons: Ensuring Free Access Points
Today, everything seems to be at our fingertips. The internet brings a wealth of information, entertainment, and products to our door on demand. You can take classes from world renowned expert...
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Analysis The Coronavirus vs. Multilateralism: Who Will Win?
By Harris Gleckman and Georgios Kostakos
This article was originally published on Passblue and can be accessed by clicking here. Covid-19 has pretty much shut down important negotiations at the United Nations, ranging from climate ch...
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Dialogue You don’t know me but I’m your brother
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...
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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, ...
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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...
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Art The UN in a Word
By Katoikos
In observance of UN Day, the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS) and Katoikos issued an open call to citizens of the world to submit photos with one word answering eith...
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Dialogue UN Day 2020 events by FOGGS and partners – 23 and 24 October 2020
By Katoikos
The Katoikos and FOGGS team organised a UN Day celebration with people who actively promote the UN’s ideals in the world without working for the UN: artists, activists, professors, entrepreneu...
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Dialogue UN75+25: The Pandemic as another Chance for Opening towards Omnilateralism?
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...
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Dialogue You don’t know me but I’m your brother
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...
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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, ...
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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...
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Art The UN in a Word
By Katoikos
In observance of UN Day, the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS) and Katoikos issued an open call to citizens of the world to submit photos with one word answering eith...
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Dialogue UN Day 2020 events by FOGGS and partners – 23 and 24 October 2020
By Katoikos
The Katoikos and FOGGS team organised a UN Day celebration with people who actively promote the UN’s ideals in the world without working for the UN: artists, activists, professors, entrepreneu...
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Dialogue UN75+25: The Pandemic as another Chance for Opening towards Omnilateralism?
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...
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The invisible ones: people with disabilities in Latin America
“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...
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COVID-19, risk communication and the crucial role of community leaders
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...
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My Greek grandmother broke her leg, but the health system needed more help
The story of my grandma shows what can happen to EU citizens if their country cannot pay for its health system.
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In memoriam: Pierre Cardin
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...
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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...
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Op-ed COVID-19, the US Election, and the World
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...
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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...
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World UN75+25 Generation
By Katoikos
This is the year of the UN’s 75th anniversary (“UN75”), basically 75 years since the end of World War II. It has been a turbulent 75 years. No new world war but a serious Cold War and many reg...
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Editorials If countries have karma*…
By Katoikos
If countries have karma then the US has one more negative action on its scoresheet, its purchase in late June 2020 of the full production for the following three months of the anti-viral drug ...
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Editorials Engage for a better future after COVID-19
By Katoikos
Humanity is still reeling from the terrifying effects of the invisible enemy known by the code name COVID-19. The dead of this silent war are significant in numbers, and the fragility of the g...
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And the people’s sanctions go to… President Trump!
US President Trump has just surpassed himself in the disrespect that he shows to international institutions, and the truth. His disdain for any kind of broadly-accepted rules that would constr...
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Editorials The virus, the state, the market, and the people
By Katoikos
COVID-19, the coronavirus that made its presence felt first in China a few months ago is currently laying siege on the whole world. Country after country impose restrictions on the movement of...
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In memoriam: Pierre Cardin
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...
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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...
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Op-ed COVID-19, the US Election, and the World
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...
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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...
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World UN75+25 Generation
By Katoikos
This is the year of the UN’s 75th anniversary (“UN75”), basically 75 years since the end of World War II. It has been a turbulent 75 years. No new world war but a serious Cold War and many reg...
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Editorials If countries have karma*…
By Katoikos
If countries have karma then the US has one more negative action on its scoresheet, its purchase in late June 2020 of the full production for the following three months of the anti-viral drug ...
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Editorials Engage for a better future after COVID-19
By Katoikos
Humanity is still reeling from the terrifying effects of the invisible enemy known by the code name COVID-19. The dead of this silent war are significant in numbers, and the fragility of the g...
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And the people’s sanctions go to… President Trump!
US President Trump has just surpassed himself in the disrespect that he shows to international institutions, and the truth. His disdain for any kind of broadly-accepted rules that would constr...
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Editorials The virus, the state, the market, and the people
By Katoikos
COVID-19, the coronavirus that made its presence felt first in China a few months ago is currently laying siege on the whole world. Country after country impose restrictions on the movement of...
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UN75+25: The Pandemic as another Chance for Opening towards Omnilateralism?
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...
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UN75+25: A history model for a model future
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...
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UN75+25: For a future that does not choose economy over life
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...
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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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Submission Guidelines
By Katoikos
Submission requirements In order for your submission to be considered for publication, it must meet the following requirements: Articles must be between 500 to 1000 words in length. Articles m...