In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Atje Drexler speak with Bogolo Kenewendo about the evolution of development cooperation, the challenges it faces currently and climate finance.

References:

The Forum on China - Africa Cooperation (FOCAC): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_on_China%E2%80%93Africa_Cooperation ;

African Debt on China: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/12/response-debt-distress-africa-and-role-china/02-case-studies-chinese-lending-africa ;

German ODA in support of environmental protection: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/germany-is-a-major-provider-of-oda-in-support-of-environmental-protection_2af383e8-en ;

Developing countries and their access to and prices of Covid-19 vaccines: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01410768211053006 ; https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/vaccine-monopolies-make-cost-vaccinating-world-against-covid-least-5-times-more ; 

Gavi: https://www.gavi.org/our-alliance/about ; 

Statement from US Trade Representative Katherine Tai regarding waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines, 2021: https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2021/may/statement-ambassador-katherine-tai-covid-19-trips-waiver; 

UN: “No one is safe, until everyone is”: https://www.un.org/en/desa/%E2%80%9Cno-one-safe-until-everyone-%E2%80%9D 

Climate Change enhances risk for Malaria infections in Europe in the future: https://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/en/observatory/evidence/health-effects/vector-borne-diseases/malaria-factsheet ;

Namibia and Germany signed a grant agreement for 7.5 m Euro for increasing access to electricity for households and small and medium enterprises in Namibia: https://windhuk.diplo.de/na-en/-/2671498#:~:text=On%208%20August%202024%2C%20the%20National%20Planning%20Commission,households%20and%20small%20and%20medium%20enterprises%20in%20Namibia 

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In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Jay Rosen about the developments in the American media system over the past decades, the role that they have played and will continue to play in the American presidential elections.

References:

• Presidential debate 1960 between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9cdRpE4KKc
• Making of the President 1960. White, Theodore: https://www.amazon.com/Making-President-Perennial-Political-Classics/dp/0061900605#:~:text=Book%20overview&text=The%20Making%20of%20the%20President%3A%201960%20revolutionized%20the%20way%20modern,campaign%20coverage%20and%20remains%20unparalleled
• Fourth Estate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
• Savvy style of Journalism. Rosen, Jay: https://pressthink.org/2022/01/the-savvy-turn-in-political-journalism/
• John Kerry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry
• Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Vets_and_POWs_for_Truth
• Pundits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pundit
• Steve Bannon Interview 2018 CPAC: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/16/media/steve-bannon-reliable-sources/index.html
• Flooding the zone: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/impeachment-trial-trump-bannon-misinformation
• Verification in reverse: How 'verification in reverse' powers the conservative media bubble and right-wing politics
• Obama controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories
• MAGA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again
• January 6th United States Capitol attack : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
• Presidential Debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v-8wJkmwBY

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In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Kavita Nandini Ramdas about feminism in today’s time and age and the adoption of feminist foreign policy and what it means. 

References:  

• The Sound of Music: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music
• Drei ostdeutsche Frauen betrinken sich und gründen den idealen Staat: https://www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/buch/drei-ostdeutsche-frauen-betrinken-sich-und-gruenden-den-idealen-staat-9783446279841-t-5252
• Frantz Fanon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon
• French Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
• Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist, known for her declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympe_de_Gouges
• Sweden adopts a Feminist Foreign Policy: https://government.se/speeches/2015/02/statement-of-foreign-policy-2015/
• Sweden ditches "feminsit foreign policy": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63311743
• Germany's feminist foreign policy: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aussenpolitik/themen/ffp-guidelines/2585074
• Angela Merkel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel
• Barenboim-Said Akademie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barenboim%E2%80%93Said_Akademie
• Edward Said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said
• Daniel Barenboim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Barenboim
• Audre Lorde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde
• Bell Hooks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks

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Nisreen Elsaim, Climate and Youth Activist and Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow talks about the complex interconnection between Climate Change, armed conflict and involuntary migration and how better governance, fresh ideas of younger generations and more global responsibility by wealthier nations, can bring hope in an otherwise depressing situation.

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In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Reetta Toivanen about police violence, what racial profiling means, how it manifests itself and some of the things that can be done to tackle this.

References: ECRI: https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-commission-against-racism-and-intolerance ;

ECRI Report: https://rm.coe.int/ecri-report-on-germany-sixth-monitoring-cycle-/16809ce4be ;

Anti Discrimination Law in Germany: https://www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/EN/homepage/homepage-node.html ;

Fundamental Rights Agency: https://fra.europa.eu/en ;

United Nations Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination: https://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/ ;

Basu v. Germany: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/fre#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-220007%22]} ;

Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Staat_gegen_Fritz_Bauer ; Ted Lasso: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Lasso ;

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In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Sanam Naraghi Anderlini about what attracts people towards extremism, her work in peace building and violence prevention.

References: ICAN: https://icanpeacework.org/ ;

Paiman Trust: https://www.peaceinsight.org/en/organisations/paiman-alumni-trust-paiman/?location=pakistan&theme ;

Deeyah Khan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deeyah_Khan ;

Ajmal Kasab: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajmal_Kasab ;

Among the believers: https://www.amongthebelieversfilm.com/ ;

Andrew Tate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate ;

UN Resolution 1325: https://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/wps/ ;

Daughter of Persia: https://www.amazon.de/Daughter-Persia-Journey-Fathers-Revolution/dp/0307339742/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=1CA5L7PDWGFPH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ty6lV-kgsRlIkMNdB0QV5sjcu7aMDhZ98YidBbfU9vJFT6yY4GiIQxCyEO9W3uncfFlskBTdwGx-S91piGvt_ajVetprCXjecY56K-3LR8tih2u_dWfOFBmY70iDAOxAihvlPCcZDDz6-WGP7IW7mg4M_QidKJyMtap_cCuAGGG84jMWlHC4u78RVrb-F3DLQTZnGtMi8wqTpSRui_iUGHwW3Jxsc-oGnFrYydtWX-Y.uAXHEeT9VQXlc3iJXLSY8yHBjmj1SwUubWaJ5tmahqo&dib_tag=se&keywords=daughter+of+persia&qid=1712135078&sprefix=daughter+of+persia%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-1 ;

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In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Cathy Mulligan about digital technologies and challenges in regulating them. 

References:

DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure): https://www.undp.org/digital/digital-public-infrastructure ;

Pope in a down jacket: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-puffer-jacket-fake-photos-deepfake-power-peril-of-ai/ ;

Crowdfunding for Ukraine: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63121649 ;

Continuum (Canadian series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_(TV_series) ;

Olaf Stapledon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Stapledon ;

Last and First Men: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men ;

Starmaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker

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In this epsiode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Bogi Eliasen about different aspects of healthcare and the variety of challenges it currently faces.

References:

FarGen: https://www.fargen.fo/en ;

Nordic Health 2030: http://nordichealth2030.org/ ;

Movement Health 2030: https://www.movementhealth2030.com/fr

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In this epsiode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Anasuya Sengupta about decolonising the Internet, hierarchy of knowledge systems and how all of it is interconnected. 

References:

Wikimedia Foundation: https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ;

Thonas Macaulay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Babington_Macaulay;

Jason Hickel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Hickel ;

Aadhar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aadhaar ;

Rising Democracies Network:  https://carnegieendowment.org/specialprojects/risingdemocraciesnetwork/ ;

Sachsenhausen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp ;

Mariame Kaba: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariame_Kaba ; 

All our knowlege brings us near to our ignorance,

All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,

But nearness to death, no nearer to God.

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries

Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

By TS Eliot in The Rock (1934)

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In this epsiode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Senem Aydın-Düzgit about modern day Turkey, President Erdoğan and Anti-Western sentiments.

References:

AKP (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_and_Development_Party_(Turkey);

PYD (Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Union_Party_(Syria);

DİTİB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish-Islamic_Union_for_Religious_Affairs;

How Erdoğan rules through crisis? : https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/how-erdogan-rules-through-crisis/;

Amitav Acharya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitav_Acharya;

Treaty of Sèvres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_S%C3%A8vres;

Richard von Weizsäcker Forum: https://www.robertboschacademy.de/en/richard-von-weizsaecker-forum-2023

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