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Local and Regional governments publish a manifesto for deeper engagement with global politics.
The modern world is changing rapidly. Trans-national and national governments…
The New Urban Agenda (NUA) makes a bold pledge that ‘no-one will be left behind’. A pledge which was unanimously reaffirmed in Monday’s High-Level Roundtable.…
Marc-Olivier P. Cantin surveys the profound foreign policy mutations that Canada is experiencing after a year under the Trudeau administration.
‘We’re back’. It…
Two days into the Habitat III conference public space (natural and built) has been discussed in terms of its importance for equitable, healthy, sustainable cities - making them…
The UN challenges governments to address housing as a human rights issue, but speakers admit they are at the mercy of the free market.
Day one of the Habitat III conference has…
In taming the climate crisis, the crude reality is that the interplay between politics, economics and culture figures prominently, which is another way of saying that the profound…
This week the UN Habitat III Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development is underway in Quito, Ecuador. Eight students from the University of Sheffield will be working…
Amy F. Woolf explores the implications of a possible no first use policy in the US.
In July 2016, reports in U.S. newspapers indicated the Obama Administration considered adopting…
My inbox has been buzzing with praise for a new paper on this issue by the Carnegie Endowment’s democracy guru, Thomas Carothers. Since he’s one of my favourite FP2P…
Stephan Manning explores how the modular principle can help develop solutions to various global 'wicked' problems.
We live in a world burdened by large-scale problems…
This interview was conducted by Joel Sandhu for the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to…
On the last day of the AWID International Forum in Brazil, more than two thousand women came together to help imagine a feminist future, and to look at the hard realities of…
Johanna Mendelson Forman argies that food is an important aspect of national security, social entrepreneurship, and peacebuilding.
We are witnessing a revolution in food. New…
Their message is that it will change production, benefit consumers and bring a sense of togetherness, writes Giuseppe Porcaro.
Any device with an on-and-off switch can (and should…
Nelson Mandela once said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” He should know. Mandela, and others, vanquished perhaps the world’s second most…