To better understand why the NGOs walked out of the meeting on that day, it is necessary to understand the nature of the Kimberley Process, an organisation that was established to tackle the issue of conflict diamonds, also known as blood diamonds. Blood diamonds constitute a segment of the rough diamond trade that is linked to egregious …
The first global story concerns Finland’s entry to the world of global capitalism and the benefits of accommodating a huge international company. It also looks at the other side of the coin, a Nordic welfare state dependent on one field of technology and the special interests of one dominant actor with an Anglo-Saxon busi-ness mindset. In that context, ideas and argumentat…
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Scotland is your in-depth guide to this unique country. Explore all that Scotland has to offer, from the streets of Edinburgh to the wind-swept highlands and lochs, from golf trips and whiskey tours to impromptu ceilidhs in cozy pubs.
In recent research, there has been growing emphasis on the collaborative, social, and collective nature of musical behaviour and practices. Among the emerging hypotheses in this connection are the idea that listening to music is always listening together and being with the other; that music making is a matter of intercorporeality, mutuality, and emphatic attunement; and that creative agency in …
Some years ago when I started "collecting" angels as a literary diversion, it was certainly with no thought of serving as their archivist, biographer, and finally as their lexicographer. Such an idea did not occur to me-indeed, could not have occurred to me-until I had corralled a sufficient number of the heavenly denizens to make a dictionary of them feasible. At first I thought that angels, n…
Among the most commonly used types of beverage bottles are bottles made from plastics for single use. The environmental impact of single-use plastic bottles has been widely discussed in society. For example, they are among the top plastic products found on beaches, contributing to the growing littering of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. To mitigate the environmental problems of single-use pl…
The discussion on whether or not entrepreneurship can be taught is becoming obsolete. The number of entrepreneurship courses, specializations and degrees is rising at an unprecedented rate all over the world and the demand for entrepreneurial education teachers or instructors is constantly growing. The global community of entrepre-neurial…