A report on a conference in Beirut with the goal to highlight regional environmental problems and search for and discuss sustainable solutions.

Die Grüne Akademie ist bemüht, Werkstattgespräche, Roundtables, Tagungen und Jahresversammlungen zu dokumentieren. In jedem dieser Formate wird jeweils ein Thema von grundsätzlicher Bedeutung und politischer Brisanz aufgegriffen. Im Archiv finden Sie außerdem Newsletter und Jahresberichte der Grünen Akademie.

For the Belarusian opposition, the lesson of the parliamentary non-election should be straightforward: against the backdrop of irrelevant discussions, unnecessary divisions, and petty factionalism, its Western supporters will be forced to seek engagement with Minsk even if it will mean shifting from a bad policy to a worse one.

A report on the proceedings of the Annual Foreign Policy Conference 2008, Thursday 11 and Friday 12, September 2008.

The Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung has been active in Santiago de Chile since 2008. The focal points in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay are Democracy & Human Rights, Ecology & Sustainability as well as Economy and social topics.

The ecological transformation of the market economy can not be achieved with a solely top-down approach. To deliver it has to be counter-balanced by a bottom-up ecological dynamic, one that includes eco-farmers and high-tech companies, inventors and investors, environmental organisations and enlightened consumers.

The regional office in Abuja promotes the country’s democratisation process by fostering and strengthening civil-society actors. Partner organisations are supported with basic and advanced training measures, the compilation of studies, and funding for their activities.

The regions East Africa and Horn of Africa are home to complex conflicts. The political crisis in Kenya after the December 2007 election revealed entrenched political and social problems in a country often described as an island of stability.

In Nigeria, civil society is increasingly involved in difficult democratization and conflict management processes. Even though women have been active for centuries in large areas of Nigeria as traders and businesswomen, they still must overcome many obstacles in order to participate in the political system.