Mandela neither demanded nor received an entirely unconditional devotion; in power he expected his compatriots to behave as assertive citizens not genuflecting disciples
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Daniel MittlerDaniel Mittler is Political Advisor to Greenpeace International working on global trade and corporate accountability issues. From 2000-04 he was head of international campaigns at Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and from 2000-02 also the Earth Summit Coordinator for Friends of the Earth International. He is a Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology, Edinburgh and a member of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Vienna. He lives in Berlin. Recent articlesIs modern Germany lying to itself? Many Germans continue to believe that their country is the vanguard of environmental and social progress in Europe. The latest European Social Forum is an opportunity to puncture this illusion. Pressing on: environmental campaigners and UN summitsThe 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg delivered disappointment to NGO activists – and this leading environmental campaigner says that things have got worse since then. But, he argues, it is too early to give up on UN summits altogether. |
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