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Author: Gabriele Koehler
Eco-social contracts: Reflections on India and Nepal
The volume Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures. Mobilising Collective Power to Deal with the 21st Century Polycrisis brings together the research and insights of activists, politicians, academics, artists from around the world. Our discussion on Contestation Movements and the Emergence of Eco-Social Contracts in India and Nepal demonstrates the immense challenges for progressive…
Read MoreEco-social agreements for universal human rights and just futures
Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures. Mobilising Collective Power to Deal with the 21st Century Polycrisis. The multidisciplinary volume brings together the research of activists, politicians, academics, artists, from around the world. On the political trajectory of India and Nepal, see some conclusions by Alina Saba and myself, prepared with significant support and inputs…
Read MoreSAVE THE DATE PLEASE: 20 MARCH 2026
The Centre for International Health of Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian’s University is convening a Global Health Symposium: Building a resilient future: One Health in an era of financial and geopolitical shifts. Happy to give a keynote on “Geopolitical Shifts, Economic and Political Determinants of Health, and the Need for an Eco-Social Contract”. Do join! Please register…
Read MoreEco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures
A solid and unconventional publication out 10 February in open access: Eco-Social Contracts for Sustainable and Just Futures (hardback available soon). It discusses economic and social justice within planetary boundaries. The editors @Patrick Huntjens, @Najma Mohamed, @Katja Hujo and @Manisha Desai pulled together 30 authors across many geographies, disciplines and practices, including activists, policy advocates, NGO leaders, former…
Read MoreKickstart? Imaginings towards a beyond-2030 “development” agenda
The 2030 Agenda and recent follow-ups As is well-known, in 2015 the UN General Assembly adopted, by acclamation, an Agenda for sustainable development (2015 to 2030). The 2030 Agenda followed a continuous series of development decades, since 1960 in fact. Since 2015, the UN secretariat itself launched follow-on processes, such as Our Common Agenda which…
Read MoreWeltsozialgipfel – ein paar Überlegungen
Einige Überlegungen zum Weltsozialgipfel und wie es weitergehen könnte und sollte: ein Kommentar (auf englisch), und in meiner neuen Rubrik „Podcasts“: Zwei Beiträge zum Weltsozialgipfel: Hier und hier in der Podcastreihe UNhörbar der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen (DGVN) mit Sophie Fasshauer, Studierende und Mitglied des DGVN-Arbeitskreises Nachhaltigkeit und Klimagerechtigkeit. Und hier ein früheres…
Read MoreAfter the World Social Summit: Where are we and what can we do?
“In rich countries, floods mostly destroy property. In poor countries, floods mostly kill people.” (Sham Jaff in her Newsletter #373) Where are we now? We are shocked by the horrifyingly accelerating aggressions against the human rights of the peoples in Afghanistan, Myanmar Iran, Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gaza, Ukraine, Greenland, Venezuela, Minneapolis,…
Read MoreNaveen Gautam: Onwards from the World Summit for Social Development – A CDWD Youth Vision
Author: Naveen Gautam For centuries and ages, Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent (CDWD) have lived at the harshest edges of social and economic exclusion. Yet across regions, from Dalit and Burakumin communities in South Asia to Roma settlements in Europe, from Haratin groups in Mauritania to Palenque and Quilombola territories in Latin America, youth…
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One health symposium at Munich’s Centre for International Health