During our time in Banda Aceh, Aceh’s provincial capital, one statement was voiced over and over again. “Go back home and tell Americans good things about Aceh,” people told us. The first time I heard this, I was surprised. It was during a conversation about the implementation of sharia law in Aceh with a [...]

Leonard Chitunhu.
After unleashing all manner of ill upon the then known world, Pandora peered inside the box, and all that was left, was hope. She wrapped hope around her knuckles and fought back.
The Roman Senate never heard a woman’s voice. Athenian philosophers rarely saw a woman ‘just taking a jog’ in the streets. The Imperial [...]

Diego Ángeles Sistac
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Mexico City, Mexico.
There is an entire range of movies and books trying to predict what will be of our future not just eleven years from now, but hundreds and even thousands. However, movies and books have always got it wrong, not because our imagination of “what will be” [...]

BY MATTHEW ESCANO
In 2002, a team of scientists led by Mathis Wackernagel, an analyst at Redefining Progress, determined that mankind’s consumption surpassed the earth’s regenerative capacity around 1980. This study, published by the U.S. Academy of Sciences, also estimated that the world’s demands in 1999 exceeded the earth’s capacity by 20 percent. Donella and Dennis [...]

BY TANEJA YOUNG
I was born in Barbados and grew up on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. Trinidad has a rich and varied culture, having been colonized by the Spanish, the French and finally the British. Under British rule, indentured labourers from India and slaves from Africa came to work on the sugar-cane plantations. [...]

By Anna Kellar
On December 8, the Yale Afghanistan Forum brought Professor Mariam Abou-Zahab, of Science-Po (home of the Paris Globalist), to New Haven to speak about the origins of the Taliban. Professor Abou-Zahab is a political sociologist, and an expert on the Pashtun tribal areas.
While at Yale, she discussed her current work over lunch with [...]

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at the Bella Center– Erin Schutte
Security was at its tightest today as protestors attempted to storm the conference center, the metro station shut down, and even registered observers with their secondary passes were denied entrance the Bella Center after one unnamed delegation supposedly let in some delegates through a back door.  Fortunately, [...]

Monday, December 14, 2009–Erin Schutte
The observers inside the Bella Center today are thankful they set their alarm clocks. Registration for COP15 got bogged down nearly immediately after the doors opened this morning at 8 AM, causing thousands of environmentalists to wait for hours outside the venue in the bitter Danish winter. I arrived at the [...]