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A significant fraction of the global population is currently without access to sufficient clean and healthy drinking water. Although it was recently claimed that the Millennium Development Goal of reducing the number of people without access to sufficient potable water by half has been reached (WHO, 2012), it is also acknowledged that this progress was mainly due to improvements in China, while in other regions such as most of Africa, the situation remains severe or is worsening. Considering the impact of climate change and unsustainable water resource management, it is likely that the number of people without sufficient water will increase dramatically

A significant fraction of the global population is currently without access to sufficient clean and healthy drinking water. Although it was recently claimed that the Millennium Development Goal of reducing the number of people without access to sufficient potable water by half has been reached (WHO, 2012), it is also acknowledged that this progress was mainly due to improvements in China, while in other regions such as most of Africa, the situation remains severe or is worsening. Considering the impact of climate change and unsustainable water resource management, it is likely that the number of people without sufficient water will increase dramatically

2016 is the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU). The IYGU declared by the three leading global sciences organizations of the natural, social, and human sciences recognizes that global social, cultural and climate changes require a global level of understanding. In this paper the basic IYGU guidelines are discussed, as well as the goals and action areas of this ambitious initiative. The topical framework and the outreach program are also described, as well as coordination, partners and organizational structure. The IYGU aims to bridge the gap in awareness between local actions and global effects, and will provide information on culturally differentiated ways to achieve global sustainability. By doing so, the IYGU will help in developing a new geographical imagination for a radically changing world.

Main Releases In The News Maps Publications Blogs Media Relations Spring 2016 With globalization, everyday actions operate within and generate new geographic conditions in which things that are spatially distant are now temporally very close.

2016 is the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU). The IYGU declared by the three leading global sciences organizations of the natural, social, and human sciences recognizes that global social, cultural and climate changes require a global level of understanding. In this paper the basic IYGU guidelines are discussed, as well as the goals and action areas of this ambitious initiative. The topical framework and the outreach program are also described, as well as coordination, partners and organizational structure. The IYGU aims to bridge the gap in awareness between local actions and global effects, and will provide information on culturally differentiated ways to achieve global sustainability. By doing so, the IYGU will help in developing a new geographical imagination for a radically changing world.

With the ongoing globalization processes,
geographical living conditions are changing
profoundly, for everyone, everywhere in the
world. The ways we live locally, how we eat,
work, travel or communicate, shape our world
on a global scale. The International Year of
Global Understanding—submitted in the name
of IGU to and approved by UNESCO—
focuses on making the connection between
local action and global challenges understandable
for everyone, and to fostering on that basis
a new geographical worldview. The paper
presents one of the most important projects in
the history of the IGU, institutional framework,
outcomes, as well as its theoretical
background. The theoretical frame includes the
practice-centered approach of everyday
‘geography-making’, proposed for research,
education, and information. This program
intends to make visible the ways people
transform nature locally and globally. It
addresses the why and how of peoples’ distinct
attitudes on sustainability dilemmas and relevant
implications. Socio-cultural backgrounds
and regional conditions, as well as lifestyle
consequences, are considered the core dimensions
of deep societal transformations. The
project follows the leitmotif that you cannot
change the world toward global sustainability
if you do not understand what your everyday
actions mean for the world as a whole. Global
thinking demands global understanding.

Today Sri Lanka is facing a huge economic crisis and political crisis due to intemperate corruption. Ordinary people are not in a position to face this crisis. Therefore, to find a solution to this crisis, the youth population of Sri Lanka came forward. Still, they are playing a considerable role in Sri Lanka's political sphere. On the 1st of April 2022, the protest started at the president's residence in Mirihana. The protestors demanded the resignation of the president and Prime Minister from the government. They use slogans such as 'Go Home Gota, Government without Rajapakshas, and Give us our stolen money.' In this situation, three months ago, the youth population of Sri Lanka started a protest that is called 'Aadaraye Aragalaya.' This article enunciates the youth uprising movements in Sri Lanka and the objective of writing this article is to share the value of doing a democratic revolution to change world politics, especially in an undemocratic system. Sri Lanka used this democratic revolution to change the ruling system in 2022. The important fact is that for doing this protest, the population of youth is giving their support for a positive purpose. Therefore, this article intends to explore the definitions of youth and youth political participation, the youth uprising movements in world history, the History of the youth uprising movement in Sri Lanka, and finally cogitated the nature of the youth uprising movement against the Rajapaksa's regime in 2022.

This article provides an analysis of how military history museums in Germany, Britain, Belgium, Poland, and the United States exhibit and contextualize weapon technologies that were developed in the two world wars. The article focuses on technologies (gas warfare, the atomic bomb, tanks, and the V2 long-range rocket) that are directly connected to military success and innovation but also relate to dehumanization and destruction. By employing the analytical concepts of experientiality and of antagonistic, cosmopolitan, and entangled memory, this article demonstrates how museums can create open or closed narratives, steer the visitor toward particular interpretations, enhance or deconstruct the authentic aura of technological artifacts, and stage the symbolic potential of technologies. In addition, it shows how museums can educate visitors and allow them to experience the ambiguities, controversies, and complexities of these technologies.

Donald J. Trump has started his political journey aiming at protectionism and making 'America Great Again'. He advocated the theory of high tariffs to control imports, to have more jobs for Americans and substantially promoting the exports. Trump emphasized on the strong connection between jobs and international trade. He criticized some of the free trade agreements like North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). US President's Trade policies promote mercantilism by using the phrase 'Smart Trade Not Stupid Trade'. His prime focus is protectionism against foreign competition. On August 18, 2017, President Trump asked the U.S. Trades Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer to commence an investigation under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 into the government of China's acts, policies, and practices related to technology transfer, intellectual property right (IPR), and innovations. Following a thorough investigation of available proof, USTR, prepared findings showing that, among other acts, policies, and practices, China uses biased licensing requirements to transfer technologies from U.S. companies to Chinese companies. These laws, policies, practices, and actions may impede United States exports, deprive United States citizens of fair honorarium for their innovations, divert American jobs to workers in China, contribute trade deficit with China, and undermining American manufacturing, services, and innovation. The Trade Wars between the world's two largest economies were initiated on these grounds. The current paper focuses on trade retaliations between US and China and its impact on rest of the world in general and India in particular.

The article explores Donald Trump's protectionist rhetoric relating to bilateral trade relations between Canada and the U.S. In particular, it presents how Trump's isolationist economic platform evolved into trade war rhetoric and how this rhetoric affected Canada. To that end, the article analyzes President Trump's statements and policies regarding the renegotiations of NAFTA, his administration's tariff policies relating to imports of Canadian softwood lumber, steel and aluminum, and Trump's opinions published in social media, mainly on Twitter. It also takes a comparative look on Donald Trump's and Justin Trudeau's ideological profiles to explain Trump's lack of sympathy and hardline rhetoric against Canada.

Canada’s growing interest in trade with countries in the Indo-Pacific region corresponds with an ominous growth in geopolitical instability and insecurity in that part of the globe. With Indo-Pacific hunger for oil expected to soar – especially in China, where demand will translate to 80 per cent of imports in 10 years – Canada needs to develop policies to deal with the region’s turbulent realities.

In a situation characterized by a potential trade conflict between its two main trading partners, the EU should avoid being caught in the trap of having to choose between the United States and China. It should therefore respond to a new US offensive on trade with an articulate strategy.

Of the 13,000 works of art in the Canadian War Museum's holdings, only 64 display dead bodies. Prevailing explanations of this absence revolve around respect for the dead and ethical responsibility to avoid the glorification of war. And yet death and destruction are pervasive in war. The irony is that one leaves the museum with the sense that war does not produce corpses, or at least not very many of them. Nowhere is this irony more evident than in the Canadian War Museum's armaments collection, described as 'the way in which human ingenuity has been applied to the science of war, creating weapons and other devices to attack, protect and kill', but with only technical information about weapon calibre and capacities provided. This article describes an effort to dig up the dead. Studying the form and function of the labels accompanying weapons, I argue that seemingly mundane technical specifications classify and standardize certain kinds of bodily injury and death, and make the bodies destroyed by war present. Overall, arguing that injury and death are in the (technical) details, I challenge the assumption that a focus on technological devices sanitizes war. Instead, I propose a way to investigate and interrogate how death and injury in war are calibrated and embodied in the standards that make weapons 'conventional'.