While the related pressures of anthropogenic climate change and population growth will continue to make essential natural resources scarce globally, domestic and international policy has been slow to adapt to this threat. In Kenya, the issue of water rights is heating up rapidly as insufficient infrastructure and dwindling surface waters already leaves many underserved.
Despite the East African country relying economically on water resources, it is simply a water scarce nation. Roughly 90% of its total area is unsuitable for crop cultivation,
On the 9th of May, 2016, the Philippines heads to the polls to vote for a new government. The Filipino people are poised to choose a new president and vice president. This elections also coincides with the elections as well for a new slate of senators, congressmen, and local government officials. Amid much color and festivity, 130 individuals have stepped and submitted their certificates of candidacy for the position of president, 19 for vice president, and 172 for senator. The Philippine Commission on Elections is set to deliver a quicker more efficient and accurate poll by utilizing autom...
Dominic Burbidge, lecturer and researcher at the University of Oxford, presented his research on “Democracy Versus Diversity: Ethnic Representation in a Devolved Kenya†as a seminar organized by the NCID at the University of Navarre.
“This title was chosen to juxtapose democracy and diversity, the idea being that a large proportion of the international community assumes that both of these things are good and compatible and we only tend to say we wonder if diversity is a threat to western democracy (migration)â€, explained Dominic Bu...