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Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

Agroecology is increasingly recognized as a powerful response to today’s interlinked crises - environmental degradation, climate change, and deepening social inequalities. This dossier explores how agroecology redefines food systems and promotes people’s agency.

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How Anti-LGBTQ+ Ideas Help the Georgian Dream Consolidate Power

Analysis

Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric has been a central element of the Georgian Dream’s anti-democratic turn towards the far right. How do anti-LGBTQ+ statements and policies help GD expand its grip on power, and why does this strategy work?

By Tamta Gelashvili

Map: Kosovo marked with colored dots showing massacre sites and number of civilians killed.

"Go to Clinton!" A Kosovar historian reconstructs the massacres of the Kosovo War

Comment

Michael Martens reviews Shkëlzen Gashi's book on 83 massacres during the Kosovo War, documenting crimes by Serbian forces and reprisals. The author's merit is to provide new information about the victims, the perpetrators and the search for justice.

Events

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May

Berlin Forum on Global Cooperation 2025

Conference Monday, 26. May 2025 in Berlin

From Disruption to Transformation
Livestream
26

May

Sustainable development and the crisis of US hegemony

Lecture Monday, 26. May 2025 in Berlin

With Adam Tooze - Historian, publicist and co-editor of the business magazine Surplus
Livestream
27

May

Böll.Global | Gaza is starving - and the world is watching?

Online discussion series Tuesday, 27. May 2025

How humanitarian aid is blocked, politicized and turned into a weapon of war
Livestream
27

May

The Self-deception Trap

Book presentation and discussion Tuesday, 27. May 2025 in Berlin

On dependencies and the vision of equal partnership
02

June

Those tempered at daybreak: LGBTQ* eyewitness reports of the war in Ukraine

Exhibition Monday, 02. June 2025 – Monday, 30. June 2025 in Berlin
02

June

LGBTQ* in Ukraine: Diversity and resistance during the war/ЛГБТІК в Україні: розмаїття та опір під час війни

Event Monday, 02. June 2025 in Berlin

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India: When a sacred river turns rogue in the border

Article

Human intervention in the Ganga river is increasingly causing erosion, flooding, and landslides along the India-Bangladesh border. Local residents often lose their land, homes, and livelihoods, facing persecution and criminalization instead of support.

By Sourav Sarangi

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Arab Revolution in Egypt: “We Felt That the World Was Ours”

Longread

The Arab revolutions changed the lives of a whole generation. But it also had an impact on those who were children in 2011. How are they still being impacted by this moment? A conversation between two witnesses.

By Wizza and Inaam Hanim

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Over the last three years, the transatlantic alliance has demonstrated a largely remarkable unity in its support for Ukraine. But the future of US policy under President Trump is particularly uncertain. Given this context, this paper explores how the European Union and its Member States could adjust their Ukraine and NATO policies.

By Rachel Tausendfreund and Roderick Kefferpütz

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Germany Calling

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Germany is dependent on labour migration from the Western Balkans. However, the emigration of young, educated people in particular is slowing down both economic and democratic progress in the region.

By Anja Troelenberg and Franziska Tschinderle

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From Boom to Burden

Report

This report strives to shed light on the various biophysical as well as sociocultural long-term impacts of mining, which can mean massive long-term monetary costs for states and further generations.

By Andrés Ángel and Johanna Sydow

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Recent Articles & Specials

Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

How Anti-LGBTQ+ Ideas Help the Georgian Dream Consolidate Power

"Go to Clinton!" A Kosovar historian reconstructs the massacres of the Kosovo War

Events

Berlin Forum on Global Cooperation 2025

Sustainable development and the crisis of US hegemony

Böll.Global | Gaza is starving - and the world is watching?

The Self-deception Trap

Those tempered at daybreak: LGBTQ* eyewitness reports of the war in Ukraine

LGBTQ* in Ukraine: Diversity and resistance during the war/ЛГБТІК в Україні: розмаїття та опір під час війни

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India: When a sacred river turns rogue in the border

Arab Revolution in Egypt: “We Felt That the World Was Ours”

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Trump 2.0 and European cohesion

Germany Calling

From Boom to Burden

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

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#StandWithUkraine

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Recent Articles & Specials

Agroecology: Our Roots of Change

How Anti-LGBTQ+ Ideas Help the Georgian Dream Consolidate Power

"Go to Clinton!" A Kosovar historian reconstructs the massacres of the Kosovo War

Events

Berlin Forum on Global Cooperation 2025

Sustainable development and the crisis of US hegemony

Böll.Global | Gaza is starving - and the world is watching?

The Self-deception Trap

Those tempered at daybreak: LGBTQ* eyewitness reports of the war in Ukraine

LGBTQ* in Ukraine: Diversity and resistance during the war/ЛГБТІК в Україні: розмаїття та опір під час війни

Our Work Worldwide

Regions

India: When a sacred river turns rogue in the border

Arab Revolution in Egypt: “We Felt That the World Was Ours”

Publications

Trump 2.0 and European cohesion

Germany Calling

From Boom to Burden

Plastic Atlas

Agriculture Atlas 2019

The Ocean Atlas

Publication Series

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#StandWithUkraine

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