Society & Culture

Cyber-terrorism

Every day in this country there are men, women and children who live without honour, decency, values and integrity. This is Africa and sub-Saharan Africa’s masterpiece...

Frankly Speaking: School Safety as a Concept Matters

Safety in school is a microcosm of safety in society, its social institutions and beyond. Squelch, 2001, has defined, a safe school as one that is...

Marilyn Monroe: A cuckoo hatchling pushing eggs outside of its nest

They took photographs of you. Might as well been from dawn to dark photographs. In pictures, in films, the light certainly never left your eyes. Your...

Give me religion that does not polarise society

A few years ago in Aceh, a poster was put up by the Islamic Sharia Department in Banda Aceh of the communications and information agency office,...

You never miss the water, till the well runs dry

In the past twenty years, virtually every country around the world has experienced natural calamities if we have experienced it in the form of drought, famine,...

A World in Distress

World mean temperature is up 1.1C since the industrial revolution.  Climate experts believe we have 12 years before it rises enough to set up a self-reinforcing...

Connecting the Poles: The importance of collaboration between regions

The Arctic and Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), separated by thousands of miles, share many of the same wonders and challenges, and yet they hardly work together...

From Wall-Less Design to Robotics Training: Meet the 16 Schools Defining the Future of Education

The World Economic Forum identified 16 Schools of the Future – defined as schools, school systems and programmes – that are playing a critical role...

Understanding the gender pay gap: Definition and causes

Although the equal pay for equal work principle was already introduced in the Treaty of Rome in 1957, the so-called gender pay gap stubbornly persists with...

Presidents, Pharaohs and Prophets

Over millennia national leadership managed its population on basic divides: Soldiers to just follow orders, workers to just get soldiers ready to march and artists just to...

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