You are here

Home

Social Crisis

Primary tabs

Sun, 2011-09-18 01:38 — mdmcdonald
This working group is focused on tracking factors that may lead to riots during social crisis.

The mission of this working group is to track factors that may lead to riots during social crisis.

Add Content to this group

Click to add a new Group Post Simple to this group
Click to add a new Group Post Simple w Images to this group
Click to add a new Group Post to this group
Click to add a new PRIVATE Group Post to this group
Click to add a new TASK to this group

Members

Jerry Glenn Kathy Gilbeaux Maeryn Obley mdmcdonald
Subscribe to group

Email address for group

social-crisis@m.resiliencesystem.org

Egypt: Protesters Gather Nationwide To Demand Morsi's Ouster

Sun, 2013-06-30 17:47 — Kathy Gilbeaux

huffingtonpost.com - By MAGGIE MICHAEL, SARAH EL DEEB and HAMZA HENDAWI - June 30, 2013

CAIRO — Hundreds of thousands of opponents of Egypt's Islamist president poured onto the streets in Cairo and across much of the nation Sunday, launching an all-out push to force Mohammed Morsi from office on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration. Fears of violence were high, with Morsi's Islamist supporters vowing to defend him.

Nationwide, the rallies were among the most gigantic Egypt has seen in nearly 2 1/2 years of continuous upheaval, including during the square-packing, 18-day uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in early 2011.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
General Topic Tags: 
Communication
Politics
Security
Vulnerability
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem

Five things you should know about Turkey and the Istanbul protests

Sun, 2013-06-30 15:07 — Maeryn Obley

Video: Turkey protests 'a warning' to Erdogan

telegraph.co.uk - June 3rd, 2013 - Ruth Sherlock

Since the 1920s Turkey has been vigorously secular in its public sphere. Now protestors accuse Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of blurring the line between religion and state by trying to impose the Islamist values of his Justice and Development party (AKP) on society as a whole.

Last month the government introduced a new law cracking down on alcohol, banning the sale of drink between 10pm and 6am and forcing restaurants near schools or mosques to be dry.

(VIEW COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
General Topic Tags: 
Citizens
Politics
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem

Egyptian Troops Deployed to Keep Order After Brotherhood Offices Attacked

Fri, 2013-06-28 20:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

cnn.com - by Reza Sayah and Greg Botelho - June 28, 2013

(CNN) -- Egyptian troops canvassed streets Friday after a fresh spate of violence in the volatile North African nation, hoping to prevent a repeat of the bloody, chaotic revolution of two years ago, a military spokesman said.

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
General Topic Tags: 
Politics
Security
Vulnerability
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem

Climate Change’s Links to Conflict Draws UN Attention

Fri, 2013-02-15 16:08 — admin

By Flavia Krause-Jackson - Feb 14, 2013 8:30 PM MT - Bloomberg News

Members of the United Nations Security Council in New York met with Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who presented a number of scenarios to show the connection between climate change and global security challenges.

Climate change is a “reality that cannot be washed away,” according to notes prepared for diplomats at today’s session. “There is growing concern that with faster than anticipated acceleration, climate change may spawn consequences which are harsher than expected.”

Topics ranged from Hurricane Sandy, to fossil-fuel deposits, to glacial melting and how the seeds of conflict, unrest, and revolution are being sewn.

Read the entire article

Read the National Intelligence Council Global Trends 2030 Report

Climate Change as Source of Future Conflict Draws UN Attention

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
General Topic Tags: 
Agriculture
Citizens
Climate
Collapse
Drought
Economics
Sea Level
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem
Situation Report

Spain Hit by New Wave of Street Protests

Tue, 2012-10-09 10:51 — Kathy Gilbeaux

aljazeera.com - October 7, 2012

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
General Topic Tags: 
Economics
Policy
Politics
Security
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem

French Protesters March in 'Resistance' to Austerity

Sun, 2012-09-30 18:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Protesters carry a banner reading 'no to austerity' at a march in Paris. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP

guardian.co.uk - by Kim Willsher - September 30, 2012

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest against the spread of economic "austerity" in France and Europe.

Chanting "resistance, resistance", the crowds had been rallied by around 60 organisations, including the leftwing Front de Gauche and the French Communist party, which oppose the European budget treaty.

"Today is the day the French people launch a movement against the politics of austerity," said the Front de Gauche president, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
General Topic Tags: 
Economics
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem

Protests puncture euro zone optimism

Sat, 2012-09-29 19:59 — Maeryn Obley

A protester runs from police in Athens on Wednesday. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)

Image: A protester runs from police in Athens on Wednesday. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)

globalpost.com - September 26th, 2012 - Paul Ames

Riot police fired tear gas at an angry mob throwing gasoline bombs during a general strike in Athens today, a day after Spanish police shot rubber bullets at leftist protesters attempting to storm parliament, where lawmakers were mulling more austerity.

Days after it seemed European policymakers may have finally launched a drive to save the continent’s single currency, the euro zone's battlefield is spreading from trading floors to the streets.

Now Spain’s richest region is calling for independence, part of the mounting political fallout from an economic crisis that is far from resolution.

(VIEW COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
General Topic Tags: 
Economics
Politics
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem

Protests spread against US over anti-Islamic film - as it happened

Sat, 2012-09-15 12:33 — Maeryn Obley

A Google map locating protests around the world tied to a low-budget video produced in canyon country north of Los Angeles. Photograph: Google

Image: A Google map locating protests around the world tied to a low-budget video produced in canyon country north of Los Angeles. Photograph: Google

guardian.co.uk - September 14th, 2012 - Matthew Weaver, Brian Whitaker and Tom McCarthy   

Protest activity smoldered in Cairo, Tunisia, Lebanon and elsewhere after a day of upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa. Relatively small but intense protests outside US embassies across the region resulted in multiple fatalities in Tunis and at least one each in Lebanon and Cairo.

Gunmen staged a raid on a peacekeepers' outpost in Sinai, with three foreign soldiers, believed to be Colombian, reportedly injured. The raid was described as major, with dozens of fighters and vehicles, and was not of a kind with the protests outside US diplomatic outposts.

(VIEW COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
General Topic Tags: 
Citizens
Communication
Politics
Visualization
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem

Why 2013 will be a year of crisis

Wed, 2012-09-05 20:07 — Maeryn Obley

Prediction: 2013 will be a year of serious global crisis. That crisis is predictable, and in fact has already begun. It will inescapably confront the next president of the United States. Yet this emerging crisis got not a mention at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

Image: Rotting corn was damaged by severe drought on a farm near Bruceville, Indiana.

submitted by Samuel Bendett

cnn.com - September 3rd, 2012 - David Frum

Prediction: 2013 will be a year of serious global crisis. That crisis is predictable, and in fact has already begun. It will inescapably confront the next president of the United States. Yet this emerging crisis got not a mention at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

(VIEW COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
General Topic Tags: 
Agriculture
Climate
Disaster Response
Drought
Extreme Weather
Food
Scarcity
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Problem

The U.K. August 2011 Riots Could Have Been Predicted

Thu, 2012-07-05 11:44 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Burned-out hulk of stores and apartments after night of rioting // Source: wikipedia.org

Homeland Security News Wire - July 5, 2012

Researchers studying urban violence have developed a new method which can help city authorities to assess the conditions where conflict could potentially tip into violence; Participatory Violence Appraisal (PVA), used in Kenya and Chile, could have helped to anticipate the tipping points that led to last summer’s riots in cities across the United Kingdom, the researchers say

A University of Manchester team researching urban violence has developed a new method which can help city authorities to assess the conditions where conflict could potentially tip into violence.

(READ COMPLETE ARTICLE)

Country / Region Tags: 
Global
General Topic Tags: 
Security
Vulnerability
Problem, Solution, SitRep, or ?: 
Solutions
Problem

Pages

howdy folks