Arab Spring

Young Greeks face tear gas at a protest in Athens, December 2008. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42632457@N00/3098761766/">How Will I Ever (Flickr)</a>

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UN group: Vast numbers of unemployed youth threaten global stability

The swelling ranks of unemployed youth threaten to create a lost generation that endangers the global economic system, a new report warns.

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What Arab youth still want: jobs

Arab youth know what caused the uprisings a year ago. What they want to know is how their day-to-day lives will improve once the fanfare of elections subsides.

Failure to adapt to global climate change led to unrest across the Arab World. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/6argoo3a/6253592631/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Saleem-Homsi (Flickr)</a>

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How climate change puts the heat on governments

Incompetent, unjust governance by some of the Middle East’s worst despots brewed a recipe for disaster before the Arab Spring, but it took climate change to turn up the heat.

Educated youth in Tunisia want employment that utilizes their skills and passion. Photo: Joy Portella/Mercy Corps.

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Tunisia does not want handouts, loans or traditional aid. Can they get the investment they need?

"Can Tunisia become the Silicon Valley of the Arab World?" Columnist David Rohde explores this question in The Atlantic:

Protesters wave Egypt's flag. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/caitelle/5403613016/sizes/m/in/photostream/">C. Elle (flickr)</a>

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Turning Arab Spring youth opinions into data - and change

This story was republished in The Christian Science Monitor.

Tunisia becomes the first country of the Arab Spring to hold a general election. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/piaser/5359879369/">Photo: Gwenaël Piaser (Flickr)</a>

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In Tunisia, voting on the future of the Arab Spring

While the world's eyes are fixed on violence in Egypt and Libya, the Arab Spring’s most importa

Anger over food prices helped lead to Muammar el-Gadhafi's assassination Thursday. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/3632276546/in/photostream/">Thierry Ehrmann (flickr)</a>

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Did global warming kill Gadhafi?

Muammar el-Gadhafi gave Libya's people plenty of reasons to hate him. But it may have taken climate change to do him in.