In a presentation at the School of Public Policy on December 2, Gloria Lai (Mundus MAPP '11) offered a devastating critique of the global war on drugs – a war that, as she noted, has been enormously expensive: $1.5 trillion was spent on drug control efforts between 1970 and 2010 in the US alone. Despite this, there was no significant change in the levels of drug dependence.
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December 7, 2015
December 3, 2015
SPP Associate Dean Julia Buxton participated in a panel discussion at the U.S. International Peace Institute (IPI) on November 16. The event, entitled "Sustainable Development and the World Drug Problem," was chaired by IPI Director of Research and Publications Adam Lupel. The panel included Jürg Lauber, permanent representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, Tenu Avafia from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Summer Walker of the United Nations University (UNU).
December 3, 2015
Degrowth is many things. It is, according to Vincent Liegey, spokesperson for the French Degrowth Movement, a "bomb word" that often prompts heated discussions. It is also, he went on to explain, a multidimensional, interdisciplinary field of research that seeks to deconstruct the growth paradigm. Liegey noted that although some people in some parts of the world have benefited enormously from growing economies in recent decades, many of these same people don't feel that they are living meaningful lives.
November 20, 2015
"Basic income empowers people," declared Marcus Brancaglione, co-founder of ReCivitas, a Brazilian NGO that managed an innovative universal basic income (UBI) project in a small community on the rural periphery of São Paulo, Brazil.
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