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      Vietnam's Clean Energy Transition Must Include Civil Society Freedom

      Locking up a country's environmental defenders is not only wrong from a human rights perspective, but will only slow down the massive shift that is needed to avoid the worst impacts for people and nature.

      Susann Scherbarth
      Fanny Tri Jambore
      Dec 13, 2022

      In the lead up to the EU ASEAN Summit in Brussels on December 14, G7 countries have put a $15 billion offer on the table for Vietnam to consider, half public loans, half pledges from the private sector but no needed public grants. The proposed "Just Energy Transition Partnership" (JET-P) is a multi-faceted financing deal being negotiated between the EU, the UK and Vietnam to support its transition away from coal toward renewable energy. While this is a key strategy in mitigating climate change that must be considered, questions should be raised about how a JET-P can be successfully implemented in Vietnam while their environmental defenders are in jail.

      For Vietnam, those currently in prison were allies working constructively to assist the Vietnamese government in its revision of its energy plan to phase out coal and forge a path towards a clean, energy-secure future.

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      Buddhist Monk and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Dead at 95

      "He inspired so many good people to dedicate themselves to working for a more just and compassionate world."

      Jessica Corbett
      Jan 21, 2022

      "This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died... Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye."

      Thich Nhat Hanh shared that lullaby for "the person who is nearing their last breath" in his 2002 book No Death, No Fear. The Vietnamese Buddhist monk died early Saturday at the age of 95.

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      Post-9/11 "Nation-Building" in Afghanistan and Iraq Was Nothing But Destruction

      Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq was the resurrection of a doctrine that should have been buried after Vietnam.

      Walden Bello
      Sep 12, 2021

      In one of his interviews before the Taliban retook Afghanistan, John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser, blamed the American failure in Afghanistan on a change in Washington's mission from anti-terrorism to "nation building." In his view, Washington should just have held strategic sites in the country to keep terrorists off balance and not engaged in an ambitious reconstruction of Afghan society.

      Hopefully, this time around, nation-building or liberal democratic reconstruction will be buried once and for all.

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