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A recent survey found that just over half of boys in India consider themselves politically engaged compared with less than a third of girls. Sayantan Chakraborty/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

New research helps explain why Indian girls appear to be less engaged in politics than Indian boys

A survey of over 600 teens and young adults across India found boys are more politically engaged than girls and also less aware of the barriers women face to becoming active in politics.
Ghanaian voters are among the most sophisticated in sub-Saharan Africa. Kwame Amo/Shutterstock

Good deeds can influence voters: an election strategy for parties in Ghana to try

Political social responsibility has benefits for parties and candidates across the political spectrum.
It may be accepted wisdom that Australians are disengaged from politics, but there are plenty of other indicators to suggest otherwise. AAP/Richard Wainwright

Australians couldn’t care less about politics? Really?

We may believe that Australians are disengaged from the political process, but that may be because we’re not looking in the right places.
It takes more than protest: demonstrators at a 2012 climate change conference in Doha, Qatar. Omar Chatriwala/flickr

Playing ‘serious games,’ adults learn to solve thorny real-world problems

How can diverse societies agree on strategies for tackling complex problems? Lawrence Susskind and Ella Kim of MIT explain how role-playing games can help people learn to collaborate.
These participants in a seminar on advocacy and peacebuilding are part of a generation of young people working for global peace and security. Institute for Inclusive Security/flickr

Not just victims or threats: young people win recognition as workers for peace

When nearly half the world’s people are under 24 years old, they clearly have a critical role to play in working for peace and security around the world.
When our political institutions are market-driven, they risk becoming a democratic shell that no longer serves the people, as the European Union experience is showing. Theophilos Papadopoulos/flickr

Democracy that bows down to the market is a false compromise

Democracy’s problem is not the crisis but the triumph of capitalism. Democracy has become market-conforming, resulting in whole sections of society lacking meaningful representation.

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