Blog: India's Young Generation After the Elections 2014 Published: 23 June 2014 Avani Tewari is a 19 year old law student from New Delhi. In this web dossier she will be giving her reflection on the main debates in the media after the elections and her personal impression of the political discussion every week.
Dossier: World cup for whom? World cup for what? Published: 6 June 2014 Brazil will host the most expensive World Cup of all time. Around 85 percent of the expenses will be funded with public money. For the first time in history, a multitude of questions are being raised about the real meaning of an international mega-event for the host population. This web dossier was designed to add relevant data regarding the guarantee of people's rights and as offer for critical perspectives about the realities on the ground.
Memorandum: Resource Politics for a Fair Future Published: 5 June 2014 How could a just and democratic resource politics look like that respects both planetary boundaries and human rights? The Memorandum “Resource Politics for a Fair Future” is the outcome of a two-year international dialogue process of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Contact: Staff and Departments Published: 28 March 2014 This page contains all contact details of our staff.
Perspectives Africa Published: 25 March 2014 With this series, we intend to let experts from Africa express their views about current political issues in their region. Perspectives focuses on Southern- , East- and West Africa where the foundation has established offices.
Dossier: Afghanistan’s Transition in the Making? People, Perceptions and the Politics of 2014 Published: 11 March 2014 2014 is viewed as one of the most important years since the Afghan transition process began, over a decade ago. Western troops are being drawn down and more importantly, the first presidential and provincial elections autonomously organised within the country, will present a further important step within the political transition process. This dossier provides analyses, profiles, interviews, as well as studies that will shed light on the events of what is an important year for Afghanistan.
Interviews: New political visions of Afghanistan Published: 10 March 2014 Rahe-Madanyat (Civilization Way Weekly) is a non- partisan and independent weekly magazine established in 2012 by a group of young talented journalist, writers and university lecturers in Afghanistan. Since January 2014, Rahe Madanyat is conducting a series of weekly interviews to portrait young political leaders. This web dossier will publish English and German translations of the interviews regularly until December 2014.
Perspectives Asia Published: 22 January 2014 Perspectives Asia is a publication series jointly produced by the offices of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Asia. With this series, we intend to provide a German and European readership with an understanding of Asian perspectives, as well as an analysis of global trends and greater insights into developments and current political issues across the Asian region.
Meat Atlas Published: 9 January 2014 The publication sheds light on the impacts of meat and dairy production, and aims to catalyse the debate over the need for better, safer and more sustainable food and farming.
The Future Of Arms Control Published: 18 December 2013 Dossier: The Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin held an international expert conference on the “Future of Arms Control”, jointly organized with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies (IFSH) at the University of Hamburg. We are now pleased to publish the conference proceedings.
Energy Transition Published: 11 November 2013 To ensure the success of the energy transition, we have to make the right decisions in the power-, heating- and transport-sector today.
Digital Rights Published: 29 October 2013 In recent years, debates about social media, web censorship, copyright, net neutrality, and intellectual property rights have gained momentum. Ever since the story about the NSA’s surveillance activities broke, basic and civil rights have been at the top of the agenda. Today, digital rights is not purely a question of “web politics” anymore, rather it is about a “digital society” and the question of how we want to live in the future.
Seasons of Change: Climate, Energy and Resource Politics in the MENA Region Published: 28 October 2013 This trilingual webdossier presents analysis and perspectives from a wide range of international and regional experts on how climate change, resource and energy politics relate to political and social change.
Climate Published: 28 October 2013 We need to act now, if we want to keep the planet in a liveable condition under climate change. Ambition has to be raised and wrong approaches to solving the climate crisis have to be prevented.
Economics and the Common(s) Published: 4 October 2013 The prevailing dogma of market-fundamentalism has increasingly been called into question as the predatory dynamics of the market economy became clear and as its threats to the biosphere have become more acute. Our conference has opened up new vistas in politics, economics and culture by exploring the commons as an alternative worldview and provisioning system.