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Hailing from Somalia, Ukraine, Venezuela and Uganda, the 2022 Laureates have each created new models for human and societal interactions that challenge the status quo. With crises stemming from authoritarian governance, international aggression, profit-seeking economic systems and political inertia to take action against a planetary climate breakdown, these change-makers have imagined a better world and…
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The Right Livelihood Centre and the sustainability team at the University of Zurich organise the online lecture series Sustainability Now! Global societal challenges and transdisciplinary problems such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, food insecurity, scarcity of resources, economic instability and social inequalities will be discussed with Right Livelihood Award Laureates. The first lecture will…
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Achieving food security is one of the major concerns in Egypt. Wheat is considered the most important crop in Egypt, as a strategic and political commodity, as most Egyptians depend on wheat for their daily intake in form of subsidized bread and millions of smallholders produce wheat for their livelihoods. Despite an increase of productivity…
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On Friday, January 8, 2021, the Right Livelihood College (RLC) celebrated its 11th Anniversary with a festive online ceremony, not only to congratulate the RLC on its birthday, but also to celebrate the beginning of a new phase in the history of the RLC. Watch below the speech of Anwar Fazal, Right Livelihood Award Laureate…
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On November 26, 2020, Swati Banerjee, RLC Campus Mumbai Coordinator and Professor at the Centre for Livelihoods and Social Innovation, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) gave an online lecture on “People-Centered Social Innovation – an Emerging Paradigm” at the Cusanus Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung. In her lecture, she introduces the concept and…
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On January 28, 2021, Right Livelihood Award Laureate and Coordinator of the RLC Campus Córdoba Raúl Montenegro gave an online lecture on “Coronavirus, environmental crisis and wars: the three pandemics” at the Cusanus Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung. He analyses the various interconnections between the coronavirus, the environmental crisis and wars, which he sees as three pandemics,…
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On Friday, January 8, 2021, the Right Livelihood College (RLC) celebrated its 11th Anniversary with a festive online ceremony. Right Livelihood Award Laureates Paul Walker and Raúl Montenegro, Chief Executive Officer of the Right Livelihood Foundation Ole von Uexküll, RLC Coordinators and many other partners and friends joined this joyous event, not only to congratulate…
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RLC Bonn junior researcher Dorothy Birungi has written an article on “Agricultural Cooperatives and COVID-19 in Southeast Africa. The Role of Managerial Capital for Rural Resilience”, together with Nicola Franscesconi (Royal Tropical Institute KIT) and Fleur Wouterse (Global Center on Adaptation GCA), which was published in Sustainability by MDPI. The article aims to understand how…
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On January 13, 2021, RLC Bonn Junior Researcher Amit Kumar presented his research on “Understanding the Waste to Energy project in Mumbai: An ANT account of success and failure” in an online colloquium. Amit has worked in Mumbai together with Right Livelihood Award Laureate Medha Patkar and her organization “Ghar Banao Ghar Bachao Aandolan” and…
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“The RLC enables the UZH to be in regular exchange with Right Livelihood Award Laureates. This network sharpens our awareness of the global challenges of sustainable development.“ Prof. Lorenz Hilty, UZH Sustainability Delegate The RLC Global Network is pleased to announce that the Right Livelihood Centre of the University of Zurich has joined the initiative as 10th institution. The Right…
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