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Of: Linnea Gelot
Sweden can play an important role in counteracting conflicts in Africa. We should more clearly prioritize conflict prevention and gender equality in the work to promote peace and security, writes researcher Linnéa Gelot.
October 22, 2015, Debate
Of: Gabriella Irsten
Sweden must stop patting itself on the shoulder and become more self-critical. It is time to see the problems that Swedish arms exports create, not least for women around the world. Make feminist foreign policy a reality and abolish Swedish arms exports, writes Gabriella Irsten, an expert on disarmament and security issues.
October 20, 2015, Debate
Of: Charlotte Bohman
The new global goals strive to show in an easy-to-understand way the challenges in the world today. An excellent initiative. Now the rest depends on the implementation. This is where the biggest challenges lie - to make everyone want to participate in the process and really do something, writes Charlotte Bohman at the organization Hand in Hand.
October 14, 2015, Debate
Of: Bertil Odén
The Government's budget for 2016 contains ambitious plans for development assistance. The challenge will be to resist the political spinal cord reaction to be involved everywhere and be prepared to downgrade some of the areas, writes aid expert Bertil Odén.
October 8, 2015, Debate
Of: Ulla Andrén
It is a key task for Swedish development assistance to provide support to people on the run, but also to prevent conflict and promote development. This requires both knowledge and resources. Aid funding for building peace should not be reduced due to the fact that asylum reception and humanitarian support require increased resources, writes Sida employee and former ambassador Ulla Andrén.
September 23, 2015, Debate
Europe's largest humanitarian catastrophe since World War II is currently under way in Europe. The wars in Syria have claimed hundreds of thousands of victims, while millions are on the run, exploited and endangered by smugglers. This is an unbelievably great tragedy where many governments should feel responsible, writes Mukhtar Bulaale who is a political scientist and works with unaccompanied refugee children.
September 15, 2015, Debate
We can not expect states or technological development to create a sustainable world. The use of resources - whether social, financial or natural - requires individual responsibility. Creating a responsibility through knowledge is crucial for sustainable development, writes Marcus Hjalmarsson at the organization Global Playground Stockholm.
September 1, 2015, Debate
Of: Annie Sturinge (f. Sturesson)
Lots of extra aid money is needed to meet the UN's new sustainability goals. To get there, we must have a more generous definition of aid. We need assistance that stimulates innovation and private capital, writes Annie Sturesson, senior economist at the Ministry of Finance in Uganda.
August 27, 2015, Debate
Of: Amanda Svensson
Developing and emerging countries have far too little influence in important economic institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The New Development Bank is a concrete protest against the global institutions not keeping up with the shifts in power that are taking place in the world today. It writes Amanda Svensson, a recent graduate student at the University of Gothenburg.
August 19, 2015, Debate
Of: Tobias Peterson
The Swedish LGBTQ movement and the government are on their toes about LGBTQ issues in development aid policy. Sweden provides aid to homophobic countries and through the recognition of Palestine, homophobic forces were recognized. In order to send the right signals, Sweden must include LGBTQ rights in each recipient country's performance strategy. In addition, all Swedish aid organizations should be LGBTQ-certified, writes Tobias Petersson who is an LGBTQ activist and writer with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa.
August 3, 2015, Debate