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The ‘Open Movement’ is 20 years old. This reflection is written with love – one of us was deeply involved from the start, the other a fellow traveller looking from the sidelines.…
Cristina Stefan, Lead Risk Finance Adviser, and Anna DeGrauw, Policy and Strategic Partnerships Officer, take a look at what the Crisis Toolkit could mean to strengthen pre-…
In a blog for International Women’s Day, new parent Anthony Kamande reflects on the heavy cost his partner and family have paid for the simple act of having a baby.
In…
Arnold Bomans and Peter Roessingh propose that decision-making experts design a procedure to decide on system change.
Nobody noticed, but COP28 failed to deliver its promised…
Tad Daley explores the horrifying decision taken by the team behind the atomic bomb and the consequences we still live with.
The word “infinity” is frequently…
Pooja Ramamurthi argues that partnerships with bridging powers are increasingly vital to unpicking North-South gridlocks and effective climate cooperation.
The latest report…
Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert explores the pitfalls and potentials of the use of AI to provide windows into humanitarian crises and human rights abuses.
AI-generated images have…
Daniel Clausen with some useful tips and techniques for those seeking to refine their art.
As scholars, thinkers, students, and citizens, we are all craftspeople in the fine art…
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits by Rob Geist Pinfold. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 344 pp., £54 hardcover 9780197658857…
South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice belies its recent history of ignoring international law, writes Imogen Saunders. But the case could have…
Duncan Green on whether the UK will seek to regain its lost legitimacy for thought leadership on aid.
So, apologies for the anglo-centrism and all that, but the recent series of…
Briony Hannell explores the positive influence of the microblogging platform.
Like so many millennials, my teenage years on the multimedia microblogging platform, Tumblr…
Robert H. Wade on why repeated predictions of the end of the dollars hegemony are probably, once again, too soon.
The air rebounds with claims of “the end of dollar hegemony…
Sander van der Linden, Lee McIntyre and Stephan Lewandowsky argue that people can be inoculated against the effects of disinformation.
With over half the world’s…
Ubuntu is based on a simple yet radical premise, that there are no primary differences between people. If we take that message into our politics and legal systems we can address…