This paper articulates concrete proposals and puts forward ideas for devising smarter strategies that make engagement by civil society in international climate policy more effective.

There are several hundred prisoners caught in the crossfire between India and Pakistan. Fishermen from both countries are regularly arrested and their boats seized in the small area of water that is disputed territory between India and Pakistan, known as the Sir Creek. This publication documents the efforts to resolve the issues as part of a larger agenda to establish sustainable economic cooperation between the two countries.

In this issue, our authors report on conflicts stemming from coal and copper mining in Afghanistan, India, and Myanmar. The articles on Cambodia and on Inner Mongolia in China illustrate how the traditional economic models and ways of life of indigenous populations suffer from the unrestrained exploitation of raw materials.

Perceptions and Policy Strategies of Women Parliamentarians The present study by Andrea Fleschenberg shows that in national and international debates about the transition process in Afghanistan women’s voices are seldom present, or taken into consideration.

Big transnational corporations do what they can to stick to and increase their power in the natural resources sector and promote that as “Green Growth”. How can civil society react to that? In their paper Nancy Alexander and Lili Fuhr analyse the state of the development and formulate questions for a debate.