Category Archives: Diplomat Artist Buzz

Geothermal Energy is Future for Food Production?

Sustainability is becoming an ever greater consideration in energy and food production. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking greater efficiencies and greater production. According to the FAO:…

Sport as Diplomacy & Tool for Peace

April 6 is the  International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. Sport in the past and even today has been employed to further nationalism, and perhaps as cover for…

Food Prices Drop Good News on Hunger or Danger of Deflation?

Rising food prices only a couple of years earlier were signaling hunger for many and spiking inflation for all. The trend has now switched in the opposite direction, at least…

Microfinance, a Critical Evaluation

While the assessment of the direct benefits of microfinance lending may be “modest” according to the recent World Bank study, there are other related opportunities that may be more critical….

Cultural Ethnic Cleansing

Genocide inevitably involves wiping away the cultural as well as physical existence of the people targeted. No continent has been spared and the examples are too many to enumerate, from…

Do Songwriters & Composers Receive a Fair Share?

The influence of music, commercial to cultural diplomacy, has never been greater; however those who create the songs may be getting undercut, from emerging technologies to outdated legislation. The risk…

More Fertile E-Commerce Environment Urged by UN

The new economy is perhaps even more critical for emerging and developing markets, but the infrastructure and regulatory environment may be lagging. More needs to be done to move e-commerce…

Slavery & Its Victims To Be Memorialized at UN

The new sculpture/memorial is being unveiled on the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, March 25, 2015. According to the UN News…

Orlando Bloom Looks into the Eyes of Ebola, a Very Young Face

  The youngest victims of Ebola may have beaten death for now, but the legacy of their battle will continue to traumatize psychologically and materially. The nightmares will continue for…

Elephants Will Disappear at Current Poaching Rates

  Are we sending a mixed message as to the value of elephants — products to be exploited, or beings deserving greater respect beyond their commercial use? Despite efforts to…