Resources for Seven Global Issues

Beginning at the 2006 Global Student Summit and Bonner Summer Leadership Institute held at Defiance College, the Bonner Network began to examine more closely the following seven global crisis. As a starting point, we provide the following resource links to support development of service and learning programs related to these topics.

Energy Security

A crisis in energy supply and security.

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Economic Power

Rapid shifts in regional economic power away from the Western world and towards oil rich countries and Asia.

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Global Health

Global health challenges include rising health insurance costs and global epidemics from AIDS to Bird Flu.

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Demographic Trends

Demographic imbalance where developed countries are experiencing small growth in population while developing and often poor countries are growing their population at a rapid pace.

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Poverty

Poverty is growing domestically and across the globe at the same time that the disparity between the rich and poor is growing.

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Climate Change

Climate change and environmental destruction is occuring at an increasingly rapid pace.

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Religious Fundamentalism

The world is experiencing a rise in fundamentalism, especially religious.

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