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Fulfilling Basic Human Needs

To help meet this challenge we have selected especially useful information on the topics listed below. Information about the strengths and weaknesses of these resources is also available.

Unmet Needs
   »  Unmet Human Needs
   »  Unmet Identity Needs
   »  Unmet Human Security Needs
   »  Rich / Poor Conflicts
   »  Power Inequities
   »  Effects of Colonization
   »  Oppression and Conflict
   »  Oppression and Conflict: Introduction
   »  The Nature and Origins of Oppression
   »  Forms of Oppression
   »  Maintaining Oppression
   »  Power
   »  Coercive Power
   »  Sanctions
Strategies for Providing and Attaining Needs
      Roles
        »  Providers
        »  Equalizers
        »  Educators
      Human Security
        »  Human Security
        »  Security Guarantees
        »  Identity Issues
        »  Nationalism
        »  Self Determination
      Development
        »  Millennium Development Goals
        »  Development and Conflict
        »  Development and Conflict Theory
        »  Development Interventions and Conflict
        »  Development and Human Needs
        »  Development, Poverty and Conflict
        »  Poverty and Hunger
        »  Food Security
        »  Unemployment and Economic Development
        »  Child Labor and Development
        »  Needs of Children in Developing Countries
        »  Development, Education and Conflict
        »  Development, Gender and Conflict
        »  Development, Health and Conflict
        »  Development, the Environment and Conflict
        »  Global Partnerships and Development
        »  Globalization and Development
        »  Sustainable Development
        »  Global Development
        »  International Development
      Humanitarian Aid
        »  Food Aid
        »  Humanitarian Intervention
        »  Pandemic Response
      Economic issues
        »  Provide Effective Infrastructure
        »  Microfinance
        »  Macroeconomics and Development
        »  Financial Reform in Developing Countries
        »  Monetary Policy in Developing Countries
        »  Political Economy and Development
        »  Trade
        »  Commercial Society
        »  Globalization
      Overcoming Oppression
        »  Addressing Injustice
        »  Distributive Justice
        »  Overcoming Oppression: Awakening the Sense of Injustice
        »  Overcoming Oppression Through Persuasion
        »  Overcoming Oppression with Power
        »  Empowerment
        »  Voice
        »  Capacity Building
        »  Networking
        »  Coalition Building
        »  Activism
        »  Social Movements
        »  Social Structural Change
      War, violence, and needs
        »  Refugees
        »  Refugee Needs
        »  UN High Commission for Refugees
        »  Security, War, and Development
        »  Reconstruction
        »  Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of Ex-combatants
        »  Compensation and Reparations

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I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

- African Proverb

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'm not really interested in persuading people, I don't want to and I try to make this point obvious. What I'd like to do is to help people persuade themselves.

- Noam Chomsky

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Anonymous

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

- Fred Menger