This climate-fragility risks guidance note seeks to inform the development and implementation of strategies, policies, or projects that seek to build resilience by linking climate change adaptation, peacebuilding, and sustainable livelihoods. It recommends a two-step approach to build resilience to climate-fragility risks: Assess the links and interactions between climate change, …
status: Almost no tourism; crafts trade only Rs 900 crore potential: Eco- and religious tourism can generate Rs 1,000 crore revenue, while handicrafts can turn in Rs 3,500 crore strategy: Revive confidence by reviving governance Some 1,400 empty, rotting houseboats ringing the Dal Lake provide mute testimony to tourism and …
As an economy, reviving Kashmir is not a difficult proposition. The new government, instead of exploring the more difficult option of sourcing resources from outside, has to look inwards. It has to bring about a basic change in the state's policy: from that of dependence to self-dependence. While the government
status: Five per cent of the state's forests are degrading every year potential: Regeneration of the degraded forests can create 120 million humandays of employment strategy: Open up the forests to people and involve them in regeneration and management with benefits A 150-year-old deodar tree
there will be peace in Kashmir. Unfortunately, the very institutions that profess this belief are the ones blocking its realisation. Consider the recent prime ministerial visit to the state. Vajpayee went, he saw, he wished to conquer the media. He spoke about unemployment, and promised 1 lakh jobs. But he …
Recently, I met some senior British diplomats. Conversation moved to the impending war in Iraq and its "rationality". It became heated. I wish to share a piece of Bushspeak the discussion ended with, leaving me stunned. "Remember, there will be war. The us wants it. But if you are with …
After 20 years If the bombs didn't kill, the land will. Afghanistan's natural resources are all but dead survival is an impossible dream in Afghanistan. Last December, as Afghans looked up to the deceptively beautiful sky for rain, bombs rained from endless streams of b-52 bombers
We are not starting from scratch. Our institutions have been substantially weakened. But they still exist,' says Hedayat Amin-Arsala, minister of finance of Afghanistan Interim Authority. Hidayat's statement has more meaning now when the interim government is struggling hard to convene the Loya Jirga and to chart out his country's …
life ravaged by war and drought has one hope: resilience of a people. "A good monsoon and a bit of peace will bring Afghan's life to normal,' says J Gabriel Campbell of icimod. Take Kohistan district of Kapisa province for example. Just after usa bombarded and damaged water channels in …
Around 100 villagers in Thailand protested on August 27 against a decision of the House budget scrutiny panel to approve funds for a nuclear research project at Ongkharak district in Nakhon Nayok. The villagers also demanded that the government must revoke the contract which was signed between Atomic Energy for …
in his book, Biohazard , a defector from the Soviet germ-warfare programme, Kanatjan Alibekov, has written that Soviet researchers tried to turn HIV, the AIDS causing virus, into a weapon. Even as the last Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, pursued peace openings with the West, he ordered a vast expansion of …
United Nations (UN) efforts at maintaining peace in the world has benefited the US immensely. Thirty-three per cent of all peace- keeping contracts and a further 20 per cent of other UN contracts like the supply of goods and services to the organisation, have aft gone to the US. The …
EXACTLY after a decade, the Nobel Peace Prize has found a recepienty campaigning directly against atomic weapons. In1985,it had been awarded to the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. The crusade of this year's awardees, Joseph Rotblat and the Conference on Science and World Affairs - drily called …
The recently concluded conference to extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (npt) has once again driven home the message that hypocrisy is the buzzword in the present world order. After nearly 2 years of preparation and 4 weeks of intense negotiations, the member states "unanimously" agreed to extend the treaty indefinitely …
Peace may yet return to Mexico. Mexican rebels from the troubled southern state of Chiapas have signalled their willingness to bury the hatchet and strike truce with the federal government. The Zapatista National Liberation Army, in a statement dated March 24, appealed for talks on "politiCal, social, cultural and economic …
DISHA is a voluntary organization working for socio-economic development of urban and rural communities. DISHA is a voluntary organization inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology of serving the downtrodden, poorest of the poor and marginalized sections of the urban and rural community by working on peace, justice, human rights, advocacy, education, …
