Articles by theme: Academic Essays

Counter-narcotics efforts in Burma, the world’s second largest producer of opium, are supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which uses sophisticated satellite imaging technology to determine land usage and poppy cultivation sites.

Corporate social responsibility has been adopted as an approach to international development.1 But who does it benefit, how and why? Does CSR have the potential to redefine the meaning of good business practice as meeting the needs of poor and marginalised groups? Or is there a danger that by basing development policies around a business case, the inequalities that haunt international development will widen rather than diminish?

It is a widely held opinion that religion has regained its strength in the West during the past decade, thus finding its way into spheres of society where power is distributed and where crucial decisions for world peace are made.

It is widely recognised that the huge population sizes of many Asian countries mean that although national HIV prevalence levels are still very low, very large absolute numbers of people are being infected each year with HIV [1]. Urgent responses are required; the effective responses by countries such as Thailand and Cambodia have shown how much can be done.

Academic essay on how a paternal society and traditions impact on food security in Uganda.

“We have very consciously shied away from any risk of writing a celebratory kind of new ‘European’ history,” Katherine Isaacs says.

Rigoberta Menchú Tum won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, for representing and fighting for the rights of the indigenous people of war-torn Guatemala. However, this decision was later to be questioned, especially by the American anthropologist David Stoll.