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Open Think Tank Articles

May 14, 2012 | Responding to the Arab Spring: NATO and Its Partners

Editorial Team: The additional articles from the second category of “Your Ideas, Your NATO” have been merged into a single “Your Opinion” piece. A recurring theme was that NATO must build civil-military relations and an intercultural youth dialogue, as well as undertake good governance and rule of law initiatives in order to support the long-term transition process underway in partner countries.

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October 12, 2011 | Is a World Resource War in Our Future?

“If we look at the history of peacekeeping operations mandated by the Security Council, we find that 10 operations costing a total of US$35 billion dollars have been deployed to countries where natural resources have played a key role in the conflict.
This figure represents half of the total peacekeeping budget ever spent.”
- Achim Steiner, UN Environmental Programme Executive

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February 12, 2010 | Water Scarcity Forces Business Leaders to Legislate

Increasing water scarcity worldwide is quickly becoming one of the major challenges of the 21st century, which policymakers and business leaders will have to tackle together. Policymakers need to realize that certain technologies developed by leading businesses can decisively contribute to preserving scarce water supplies. Environmentally-friendly technologies need to be helped along by effective

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February 22, 2011 | @Basia: Even though we disagree, sometimes...

February 21, 2011 | "It is universally believed that water is a...

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