Francine Mestrum

Adam Michnik

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Alexey Mikhalev

Philani Mthembu

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Franz J. Marty

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Andrew Monaghan

Francine Mestrum

Belgium

President of Global Social Justice, Member of CETRI (Centre Tricontinental) Board of Directors, Brussels, Belgium. As researcher and international consultant, Dr. Francine Mestrum is working on globalization, poverty, development, social protection, gender.

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The Backlash Against the Environment

The green movement across Europe needs to reflect on strategy – on the arguments it uses to convince people. This is needed not so much for the environmental movement itself to survive, but mainly to avert a real environmental disaster, Francine Mestrum writes.

16.02.2024

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How Just a Just Transition Can Be?

 You cannot want clean energy and at the same time reject mining. Or to put it another way, you can reject mining, but at the same time you have to be willing to give up available energy, as well as mobile phones, laptops, cars, trains and planes. It's a ripping choice that most probably will not be made, writes Valdai Club expert Francine Mestrum.

25.02.2022

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Social Movements: the Strength of Organisation vs Anarchic Networks

Are ‘traditional social and political ties’ weak? Have they always been so and will they be so in the future? These are questions that certainly cannot be answered in one page.