Sudan after Revolt

The revolt of youth: some historical comparisons.

The existence of a youth problem appears to many a phenomenon peculiarly characteristic of our own time. In fact, in the United States over the past fifty years almost each generation has produced distinctive young rebels-the bohemians before and after World War I, the radicals of the thirties and forties, the beatniks and hipsters of the fifties, and the hippies and romantic anarcho-marxists o...

The United Democratic Front and Township Revolt ^ South Africa

Recent years have witnessed the revival of organised mass opposition to Apartheid. Fighting in the townships, labour unrest, classroom revolts, rent strikes, consumer boycotts, worker stayaways and guerilla warfare all these have become familiar features of South Africa's political landscape since 1976. From the inception of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983, though, radical black oppos...

Multidimensional Poverty in Sudan and South Sudan

This paper assesses multidimensional poverty in Sudan and South Sudan. We use the National Baseline Household Surveys (NBHS) of 2009 to measure poverty incidence in education, consumption, access to public assets and possession of private assets across these two countries. We differentiate between children/teenagers aged six to fourteen years and adults aged fifteen years or older. We apply a c...

Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion, and Political Power

Thwarting ‘The Great Patent Revolt’ in your Engineering Organizations

www.fenwick.com When a patent practitioner reads an article calling on engineers to stage a patent strike within their organizations, alarm is the natural reaction. For inhouse counsel, such articles and sentiments (which I have found to be rather prevalent) make filing patents a tough sell to engineers. The following are some tips for in-house counsel to encourage engineers to engage in the pa...