While praised as a triumph of contemporary diplomacy the United Nations regime to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, biological) seems to have enabled every nation that wants a WMD capability to obtain the technology to become a threat, or in the case of terrorists and other non-state actors, to employ proxy governments…

 
For the past decade Ukraine has been in the midst of a political tussle, or metaphorically a 'Geopolitical Football Championship'. Though, in all fairness, it is hard to see it as a unified team. As it appears more like a political trophy for two major sides. On one side, the EU aims to win Ukraine to make sure its gas is supposedly…

“None of the above!”, or “Against all” («Против всех»), is an option that a voter can choose at an election to determine that none of the candidates that are running for office reflects voter’s interests, or simply said it is an option to bespeak disapproval against all candidates. This curious…

Coming on the heels of the suicide bomber attacks in front of a Kabardino Balkaria  mosque  is the suicide bomb attack In Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), 520 miles from the Northern Caucasus.  The female Jihadist from Dagestan, wearing a green scarf, blew herself up in a bus, killing six people and wounding 33 others. It is the first…

 
Coming on the heels of the suicide bomber attacks in front of a Kabardino Balkaria  mosque  is the suicide bomb attack In Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad), 520 miles from the Northern Caucasus.  The female Jihadist from Dagestan, wearing a green scarf, blew herself up in a bus, killing six people and wounding 33 others. It is the…

Despite the degree of uniqueness stemming from its particular specifics, each case of nuclear weapons proliferation also exemplifies one or more of the five main determinants of a state’s decision to acquire nuclear weapons that have been identified in the relevant literature: security, domestic politics, norms, technology and economics. While…

Long before Saladin the Kurd in took power in Egypt and Syria in 1174 child soldiers, child laborers and child prostitutes were a fact of life. Before the emergence of sharia law, before the Christian era, before the appearance of monotheistic Judaism and before the birth of the Orthodox Church.  In spite of efforts by Islamic fundamentalists, one…

Interview with “Mama” Hawa Aden Mohamed, 2012 Nansen Refugee Award_Global Education Magazine from Global Education Magazine on Vimeo.
Published in: http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/interview-mama-hawa-aden-mohamed-2012-nansen-refugee-award/

Javier Collado interviews Hawa Aden Mohamed with special occasion of World Refugee Day…

Global Education Magazine is inspired in the universal values of the Declaration of Emerging Human Rights that aims to contribute to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by United Nations (MDGs) which is supported by the Regional Offices of Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO and UNHCR. An initiative…

Karibu! The word democracy comes from Greek “demos”, it means people and those who hold sovereign power. Thus, democracy is closely interrelated to metacognition of feelings and fundamental principles of others. For this reason, current global educational policies must support the civic imperative to educate in neurobiology of love…

The end of the Cold War more than a decade ago created a world in which the relative stability between the two superpowers has disappeared. During the Cold War, a country’s every action was conducted in the light of the adversary relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. As the possibility of a major power declined…

On October 10th , Brunei hosted East  Asia Summit. This was the 8th annual meeting of EAS – the forum which was  launched in 2005 and has now gained the status of the Asia-Pacific’s most important multilateral venue to discuss security issues at the highest political level. EAS now consists of 18 members (10 ASEAN countries…