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WiTbD - What is To be Done

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Current Articles

  1. The Digital Communication Revolutions - recently added
  2. Nanotechnology - recently added
  3. Russia and Democracy - recently added
  4. The Future Of NATO And Military Alliances In The Twenty-First Century
  5. The International Trading System and the WTO
  6. Commercial Involvement In Scientific Research
  7. Scholarly Communication
  8. Women's Rights
  9. Immigration into Europe

Topic areas

Culture, Secularism and Religion

  1. Work and the family
  2. Community, diversity and liberalism
  3. Nationalism
  4. Fundamentalism
  5. Effect of moral codes on the law
  6. Cultural values and capitalism
    • Welfare capitalism and measurements of quality of life

Economic Regulation

  1. International trade
  2. Poverty
  3. Debt
  4. Overseas aid
  5. Employment
  6. Age, work-life balance and childcare
  7. Financial regulation
    • The global movement of money

Education

  1. Literacy
  2. Numeracy
  3. Primary education
    • Primary education in the developing world
  4. Education and equality
  5. Alternative education
    • Developing and assessing alternative education models
  6. Political education in democracies
  7. Religious Education

Gender

  1. Domestic violence
  2. Women's rights
  3. Equality of opportunity
    • Equality of participation in higher education, media & politics
  4. Control of resources
  5. Abortion

Governance

  1. Centralization of government
    • Conflicts between centralization of government and civil liberties
    • Resolving the conflict between participatory democracy and the technocratic structure of government necessitated by technical complexity of modern issues
  2. International justice system
    • Addressing the possible need for a functioning international justice system, with particular regard to war crimes
  3. Global human rights
    • Establishing personal legal rights independent of race, sex or sexual orientation
    • The role of a religious code on a nation's legal framework
  4. Democracies, diversity and representation
    • Developing of constitutional frameworks which can apply to nested nations and diverse nations
    • Developing an understanding of democratic representation and voting systems
  5. Punishment and imprisonment
  6. Security and civil liberty
  7. International crime
    • Eliminating criminal drug trafficking

Health

  1. HIV / AIDS
  2. Drug addiction
    • Developing reliable treatments for drug addiction
  3. Sanitation
  4. Healthcare provision
  5. Maternal health
  6. Mental health

Information Science, Maths & Computing

  1. Complex systems
  2. Digital communication
  3. Computer viruses
  4. Privacy in an information age
  5. Computer games
  6. Natural Language Processing
  7. Interoperable Knowledge Systems
  8. Quantum Science
  9. Returns to investment in technology
  10. Academic knowledge

Natural Resources and Biodiversity

  1. Food provision and distribution
  2. Renewable energy
  3. Externalities
    • International measurement and accounting system for externalities particularly those relating to pollution
  4. International co-operation on environmental issues
  5. Climate change
    • UK challenges to address climate change
  6. Water
  7. Oil
  8. Biodiversity
    • Agriculture and biodiversity

Population, Migration and Housing

  1. Population growth
    • Controlling regional disparities in population growth
  2. Age profile of modern societies
    • Provision for the elderly
  3. Urban planning
  4. Migration

Science, Space and Biotechnology

  1. Commerce and science
  2. Agricultural science
    • Genetically modified crops
    • Soil science and biodiversity
  3. Alternative science
  4. Cognitive science
  5. Intellectual property rights
    • Property rights in genetics
    • Property rights in software

Transportation

  1. Urban mass transit systems
  2. Non-petroleum transport

War, Peace and Global Intergovernance

  1. National Sovereignty
  2. NATO
  3. UN and conflict resolution
  4. International weapons industry
  5. Weapons treaties
  6. De-mining
  7. Terrorism
  8. Nuclear weapons
    • Preventing the proliferation of nuclear capability