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The satirical protest that exposed India’s youth crisis
Ashok Swain, professor of peace and conflict research at Uppsala University, argues that India is investing too little in sectors capable of creating jobs at the scale needed to absorb its growing workforce.The government’s focus on economic growth, infrastructure projects and the expansion of major companies does not automatically translate into employment for millions of young people entering the labor market, he says.“India needs sustained investment in small businesses, manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, education, renewable energy and the care economy,” says Swain. “Without that shift, too many educated young people risk being left in insecure, poorly paid or temporary work.”Swain explains that the economic insecurity is increasingly becoming a political problem for PM Modi’s ruling government. Young people who were promised jobs, merit and opportunity are instead finding that exams are compromised, recruitment is delayed, and degrees do not necessarily lead to employment.He also reasons that attempts to contain that anger through identity and religious divisions may become harder when protesters themselves come from small towns, Hindu families and even sections of the BJP’s traditional support base.“When economic frustration begins to override fear, it can develop into a wider political challenge, fuelled by anger over corruption, inequality and a perceived erosion of democratic freedoms,” adds Swain.
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One year after Gen Z paid in blood, the new political elite keeps the old rules
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The Era of New Alliances
Ashok Swain, professor of Peace and Conflict at Uppsala University, views Trump's "America First" policies as accelerating this shift. He argues that attacks on alliances, hostility toward multilateral instituion unpredictable tariff, and transactional treatment of even close partners have made the US look increasingly unreliable.
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Nepal flood disaster puts climate justice under spotlight
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Expert: Nya fördelen vid förhandlingsbordet
Putin har välkomnat Trumps sändebud till Moskva. Efter mötet ska paret för första gången besöka Kiev. Då har Ukraina ett nytt kort att lägga på förhandlingsbordet, menar Isak Svensson professor i fred- och konfliktforskning vid Uppsala universitet.
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Nepal: Warum sollen wir die Kosten alleine tragen?
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Bekaj: Ngërçi politik po e lë procesin në Hagë si kauzë jetime
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Nepal flood disaster puts climate justice under spotlight
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A new crisis is brewing over the Nile between Egypt and Ethiopia, unless mediators step in
Beyond such a bargain, Ashok Swain, professor of peace and conflict research at Uppsala University, argued that the dams themselves could create incentives for cooperation.“Additional dams could also create interdependence: coordinated reservoirs can regulate flows, reduce floods, produce electricity and support regional power trade with Sudan and Egypt,” he told The New Arab. “Which path is taken will depend less on the dams themselves than on how they are planned and operated.”“Transparency, advance consultation, shared data, agreed drought-time water-sharing rules and Egyptian access to Ethiopian electricity would encourage cooperation; unilateral construction, threats, domestic nationalism and competition over ports, Somalia and the Red Sea would deepen confrontation,” Swain added.
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Ahead of Kenya's 2027 Elections, Here's What We Can Learn From Police Practices in 2022
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Modi’s Indus brinkmanship is another diplomatic blunder
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A pariah in its own neighbourhood?
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Pressen ökar för en kvinnlig generalsekreterare i FN
Maktspelet om vem som ska leda FN går in i ett avgörande skede och pressen på att det för första gången ska bli en kvinnlig generalsekreterare ökar. – Att ha en kvinna på den posten är ju oerhört viktigt efter att man har haft uteslutande män, säger Dag Hammarskjöld-professorn Isak Svensson.
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India's hydropower push raises natural disaster fears in Kashmir
KISHTWAR, India -- On Aug. 1, when flash floods sweptthrough Kishtwar district in India-administered Jammu andKashmir, Iqbal Ahmad, a local trader, saw roads disappearunder floodwaters and thunderstorms wreak havoc on homesand shops alike."We are losing our homes, cattle and livelihood to cloudburstsevery other day," he told Nikkei Asia.The disaster came as mountainous districts in the regionexperienced a series of extreme weather-induced incidents inrecent days. On July 19, flash floods and landslides triggeredby a cloudburst devastated Poonch district, killing at least 12people. And on July 6, rainfall-induced landslides in Kishtwarburied dozens of vehicles near an under-constructionhydroelectric project.These floods and losses brought back painful memories of theAugust 2025 cloudburst that swept away villages and roads,leaving families searching for missing relatives buried beneathdebris.Despite repeated natural disasters there, the Indiangovernment is accelerating its hydropower push in Kishtwar toenhance the country's power generation capacity and itsstrategic leverage in the region that shares a border withPakistan, leaving locals to bear the environmental costs in afragile landscape.India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change inlate June allowed the transfer of 197 hectares of forest land --natural water reservoirs -- for the Kirthai Stage IIHydroelectric Project on the Chenab River. The project is oneof seven hydropower projects planned in Kishtwar, with acombined capacity of 5,190 megawatts.India ordered the construction of the seven hydropowerprojects in Kishtwar in 2017 as part of its long-term effort todevelop the Chenab basin. Project sites include Ratle, DulHasti, Pakal Dul, Bursar, Kiru, Kwar and Kirthai. Those arebeing developed across a landscape already vulnerable tocloudbursts, landslides and seismic activity, causing alarmamong communities living around the proposed dams.G.M. Bhat, a geologist and earthquake researcher at JammuUniversity, said that many of the dams and associated projectsare located on or near fault lines. Kishtwar is alsotopographically prone to cloudbursts, the frequency of which isincreasing with climate change, he said.The large reservoirs created by the projects could add anotherrisk. Bhat said impounding huge volumes of water can causereservoir-induced seismicity, which may trigger earthquakes.He also warned that the creation of dams without adequatetreatment of reservoir rims could cause disasters, such aslandslides, in neighboring areas in Kishtwar."People in power are prioritizing power over protecting theenvironment and people. It is bound to kill locals. It's just amatter of time," Bhat said.In addition to environmental vulnerability, the dams alsoexhibit a strategic dimension. As India's relations withneighboring Pakistan remain strained, New Delhi's move tobuild and operate infrastructure upstream of the Chenab Riverappears to be recalibrating regional geopolitics.Ashok Swain, professor of peace and conflict research atUppsala University in Sweden, said, "India's upstream positionon the Chenab is an important but limited source of strategicleverage. Pakistan depends heavily on the Chenab forirrigation, food production and electricity, so even uncertaintyabout the timing of water releases can create economic andpolitical pressure."Swain, the UNESCO chair on International Water Cooperation,stresses that the projects should be viewed through a broadergeopolitical lens in Kashmir, adding that India could increasethis uncertainty by withholding river-flow and flood-warningdata or by flushing and refilling reservoirs at times that areinconvenient for Pakistan.India is treating the region not simply as disputed territoryrequiring military control, but as a strategic zone containing"water, energy and infrastructure assets," he said.Tension between the two nuclear-armed neighbors heightenedin particular after the deadly attack in India-administeredKashmir in April last year, which killed 26 Indian tourists andwas followed by New Delhi's unilateral suspension of thebilateral Indus Water Treaty.Pointing out the fact that the seven dam projects predateIndia's suspension of the treaty, Michael Kugelman, a seniorfellow for South Asia at the Atlantic Council, said such "tacticalleverage over Pakistan [...] wouldn't come in right away.""In India, building large dams takes time, as is the case with alllarge-scale development projects. Securing resources, gettingbuy-in from key stakeholders, navigating bureaucracy -- this isall part of the process," Kugelman told Nikkei Asia."It would be playing a long game," he added.Tarushi Aswani is a contributing writer.
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Made in India weapons for Israel’s forever wars
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Kushner möter Netanyahu efter Hamas-samtal i Egypten
Trumps svärson Jared Kushner, USA:s sändebud i Mellanöstern, har fortsatt sin rundresa för samtal om Gaza. Efter möten i Egypten med Hamas-ledare träffar han i dag Israels premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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How lonely it is to be Israel
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Experten om Afghanistan: ”Jag känner sorg”
Efter en tio dagar lång blixtoffensiv tog talibanerna över styret i Afghanistan. Den 15 augusti 2021 tågade de in i Kabul som vinnare. De hade lyckats störta den USA-stödda regeringen. Människor flydde i panik, några till och med klängde sig fast i de avgående flygplanens landningsställ. Fem år har gått. I dag är Afghanistan ett säkrare – men också mycket ofriare – land.
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