As the novel coronavirus started spreading throughout the world in January, a large number of international students living abroad were airlifted by their home countries. Now, for the last 11 months, a lot of those students have been stranded outside…
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American Children and Online Schooling: The Good and the Bad
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed almost everyone’s lives in some way. That includes children, teenagers, and college-age students who have felt a bit ‘up in the air’ about school for over six months. Of course, this hasn’t just been a…
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Omar’s Blog #4: International Trade after the US Elections
Yesterday, it became clear that Joe Biden has won the US Elections. It is a close call and therefore the steps ahead will be challenging for his administration, especially after Trump’s unusual way of doing diplomacy worldwide. But after being…
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A Climate Saver Better Than Her Reputation
“You are failing us!”. According to climate activists, politicians have made false promises ofgreen growth, cheap change and looked the other way once sacrifice became inevitable. Thereis an abundance of good reasons to agree with that. However, a blame race…
I Voted – But What about That Other Guy, and So What?
Considering my situation in Finland, it’s easy to forget what kind of a fundamental right voting, making your voice heard in society, is. When an election closes in, I automatically get a letter detailing all I need to know: no…
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Should the United Nations Security Council be Reformed?
According to the UN’s Charter, the United Nations Security Council (SC) — one of the organization’s six main organs — bears “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security”. When looking at the state of the world, it…
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Interview with Venkatesh Geriti from Swatantrata Center in India
Find our other interviews with liberal and democratic youth organisations here. You are a Founder of Swatantrata Center, which is a policy think tank. Most of your work relates to youth politics and youth NGO work. Could you talk a…
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Technology is Ahead of Humans: Paving a Way for Resilient Digital Societies
Our reliance on technology for everyday life’s obligations, such as accessing information, problem solving, information exchanges, decision making, communicating, trading, advertising, increasing accountability, amongst many others increasingly creates incentives for technology companies, innovators, digital entrepreneurs, digital consumers and governments to…
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Omar’s Blog #3: Cooperation and Capacity Building
In a fast-developing society, the urge for computer engineers is high. Very high. If you think about it, we cannot move forward without computer engineers. All our fast credit card payments are impossible without all the people designing the necessary…
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Half of the Votes; None of the Representation
Surely the duty of a representative democracy is to represent its people. For many living in a democratic country, it’s obvious that when the election is nearing, all a candidate needs is the citizenship and a certain age. They can…
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