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ISSUES / SUBJECTS
THOUSANDS OF ISSUES and SUBJECTS
Not ONE single silver bullet
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INTRODUCTION to ISSUES
Thousands of Issues ... Relatively Few Meaningful Practical Solutions
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INTRODUCTION to ISSUES
There are ISSUES that have to be addressed in every society ... in every human organization ... and in every system. Most times, an effective outcome in addressing an issue cannot be achieved by a single simple 'silver bullet' but requires system thinking and addressing many ISSUES in parallel.
TPB/TVIA commentary:
Far too much of policy making during the past 50 years has attempted to solve a problem ... an issue ... with a single issue focus and response. This might have worked in earlier times, but as the world has become more and more interconnected this approach is bound to fail. Take for example, the United Nations, which has a lot of specialized expertise in its various specialized agencies all of which are organized on single sector lines. In the real world at the country level the poblems overlap many sectors, and this need for multi-sector solutions persists to every community on the planet. The same critique applies to other organizations like, for example, the World Bank and most national governments.
My work in international development and humanitarian assistance was successful when there was the opportunity to engage multi-sector initiatives, whereas single sector projects rarely worked.
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BURGESS BOOK - HUNDREDS OF ISSUES
Hundreds of Issues that Impact Relief and Development Performance
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This text originated in the early 1990s and resulted in a book published in 2006 to highlight the need to have multi-issue initiatives to solve complex socio-enviro-economic problems. A single bullet will not solve problems ... not even those that should be relatively easy to solve!
This was published using Lulu.com print on demand
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STARVATION / MALNUTRITION
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Africa
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North Korea
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Somalia
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War / Physical Destruction
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Aleppo, Syria
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Sanaa, Yemen
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Mosul, Iraq
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... and DEATH ... wanton killing
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Monrovia, Liberia
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Darfur, Sudan
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Rwanda
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Urban degradation
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Detroit, USA
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Modern slums
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More slums
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Inequality
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Obscene Wealth
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Terrible Poverty
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Juxtaposed
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Pollution
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Air pollution
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Land fill
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Plastic
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Land Degradation
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Mining
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Deforestation
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Desertification
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Extreme Weather Events
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Hurricanes
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Rain / Flooding
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Snow
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WHY?
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Some very nasty national leaders
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Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen
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Charles Taylor, Liberia
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Bashar al-Assad, Syria
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Muammar Gaddafi, Libya
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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
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Idi Amin, Uganda
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Money making nasty business ...
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Viktor Bout, Arms Trafficker
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el-Chapo-Guzman, Drug Trafficker
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Sex Trafficking
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Energy Industry ... Big profits and big pollution
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Crude oil in Niger Delta
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Flaring gas in USA
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Refinery air quality
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Coal (Open pit)
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Fracking
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Oil Spills / BP
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Free enterprise oligarchs
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Carlos Slim / Grupo Carso
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Larry Ellison / Oracle
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Bill Gates / Microsoft
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Too much militarism
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Atomic Bomb / Mushroom Cloud
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Powerful Navy
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Air Power
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Too little development cooperation
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UN headquarters
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US State Department
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UNHCR / UN Refugee Agency
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SOCIAL MEDIA
The challenge of controlling the 'dark side'
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Google
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Facebook
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Twitter
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LAND USE
Economic value respected ... Natural value ignored
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SUBJECTS
Matters of interest / Matters for dicussions
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More snow / Less arctic ice / More floods / More storms / More droughts
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