2,314 search results

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...public service. He was appointed to the United States Senate in 1980 to complete the unexpired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who resigned to become Secretary of State. He was elected to a full term in the Senate in 1982 in a stunning come-from-behind victory. After trailing in public opinion polls by 36 points, Senator Mitchell rallied to win the election, receiving...
Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...health, demography, regime type and (yes) the power of the state. The days when one could claim that the situation of women is a “small bore” issue in foreign policy should now be emphatically over. When Clinton was secretary of state, the global empowerment of women was enshrined as a key foreign policy objective. While there were failures as well as successes in...
The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...health and education. Different calculators therefore give different results depending on their assumptions, data sources and what they include. This calculator attempts to be comprehensive by including the effects of income, goods and services consumption and infrastructure emissions as well as the usual energy, food and transport footprints. For this article we are...
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...public, private, individuals, groups), fields (e.g. social, political, health, environment) and levels (e.g. local, national, global). Difference refers to interested parties coming to development management with their own histories that diverge on the basis of their interests, values, agendas, cultures and access to power. Emergence refers to the way development...
Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Public Understanding of Technology) on September 31, 2011. On October 1, 2011 John became Vice-President of Wolfson College, Cambridge, a post held for four years, until his term came to an end in September 2015. In 2012, with the historian Richard Evans and the political theorist David Runciman John was Co-Principle Investigator on a large 5-year Leverhulme-funded...
The pensions timebomb
Society, Politics & Law

The pensions timebomb

...public lost faith in occupational and private pensions? Should the state pension be enough to see us through our old age? And with the non-working to working ratio continuing to rapidly increase, who will pay? We hear from those that were directly affected by the scandals of the 90's and the collapse in private pensions since - and from the experts whose job it is to help...
Welfare, crime and society
Society, Politics & Law

Welfare, crime and society

...public, formal and informal forms of security in the White Rose Shopping Centre. Gated communities: who and why? Exploring some of the reasons why people in different parts of the world choose to live in gated communities. Gated communities: insiders and outsiders The purpose and nature of surveillance for residents of gated communities. Gated communities: socialness and...
Politics
Society, Politics & Law

Politics

...public in relation to issues of toxic and nuclear waste. In the final three of the audio tracks, course team member Andy Dobson explains why these topics were chosen for this course, and unpicks some of the issues that emerge. The material forms part of the course DD203 Politics... Politics A short introduction to this album. GM: The UK debate An introduction to the UK...
Audio 1 hr 19 mins