{"id":1343,"date":"2017-10-18T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investinpeace.tssef.se\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2017-10-18T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:42:08","slug":"on-where-change-will-come-to-solve-our-most-pressing-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"On where change will come to solve our most pressing problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Having spent my life as an activist within a civil society organisation, working both in UN corridors and in collaboration with social movements on the ground, I am firmly convinced that substantial change and real solutions to our most pressing problems \u2013 food, fuel and climate \u2013 will not originate from governments (or from UN agencies), but from civil society\/social movements. Institutions will never move far enough or fast enough without the political pressure from demands by peoples and social movements.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><small>Mooney, P. (2012). Civil society strategies and the Stockholm syndrome. In H\u00e4llstr\u00f6m, Niclas (ed.), What Next Volume III: Climate, Development and Equity. The Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld Foundation, p.327.<\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/danielpargman.blogspot.com\/\">Daniel Pergma<\/a>n for finding the quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Having spent my life as an activist within a civil society organisation, working both in UN corridors and in collaboration with social movements on the ground, I am firmly convinced that substantial change and real solutions to our most pressing problems \u2013 food, fuel and climate \u2013 will not originate from governments (or from UN &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=1343\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On where change will come to solve our most pressing problems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-quote-of-the-day","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}