David Rieff on The Arab Uprisings and the Global Food Crisis

About the Speaker:

David Rieff is a New York-based journalist and author. During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia. Now a writer for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor for The New Republic, he has written extensively about the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Rieff is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. He is currently completing a book about the global food crisis.

About the Event:

Global food prices reached a record high in January 2011, surpassing even the levels seen during the 2007-08 food crisis. This latest surge in wholesale prices has been stoking inflationary pressures and triggering food riots across the developing world. One manifestation of the crisis can be seen in the extraordinary uprisings in the Maghreb and the Arab Middle East, where, according to Rieff, the failure of official development aid policies has been an important contributory factor. Rieff's presentation focused in particular on the issue of chronic malnutrition in children and the vicious cycle of poverty that this tends to engender.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• David Rieff
• Arab Uprisings
• 2011
• Global Food Crisis
• Egypt
• Tunisia
• Libya
• IIEA
• Food Crisis
• Aid

[keeyk118b]

poor goverance , corruption, inequality . no emphasis on education. religious fanaticism.all these are common in the middle east.

[aon10003]

If i undestand what hes saying.

If you let a person starve at young age, they basicly get to dumb to understand the meaning of peace.

Correct me if im wrong.