This is a very powerful documentary that deals with corporate social
responsibility and fair trade. I would encourage everyone to see it. A
brief description is below (you can only watch the preview on this

Jim Carrey calls for people to support the world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi. He also decries Burma's military regime for recruiting more child soldiers than any other country in the world, destroying 3,000 villages in eastern Burma, and forcing 1.5 million refugees to flee. He appeals to viewers to join two organizations:

The Human Rights Action Center
www.humanrightsactioncenter.org

U.S. Campaign for Burma
www.uscampaignforburma.org

In this video Steven Pinker shows that society is actually becoming more peaceful, or at least less people are being killed by others. He looks at why this could be and the impacts it could have on our understandings of peace and war..

In this bracingly honest and funny talk, international security strategist Thomas P.M. Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering US miltary: Break it into two. He suggests the military re-form into two groups: a Leviathan force, a small group of young and fierce soldiers capable of swift and immediate victories; and an internationally supported network of System Administrators, an older, wiser, more diverse organization that actually has the diplomacy and power it takes to build and maintain peace.

The Visual Cultural Studies is a department at the University of Tromsø.  The linked video is one example of their work:  http://uit.no/breifilm/4490/1

Jacqueline Novogratz is pioneering new ways of tackling poverty. In her view, traditional charity rarely delivers lasting results. Her solution as seen in the video is "patient capital": support for "bottom of the pyramid" businesses which the commercial market alone couldn't provide. The result: sustainable jobs, goods, service -and dignity- for the world's poorest.

Journalist Andrew Mwenda from Uganda speaks at the 2007 TED conference urging us to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth and happiness throughout the continent. Most important, he says, the solution to Africa's problmes is NOT more aid.