Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

04 April 2024
Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change by Vinod Thomas. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan 2023. 232 pp., £24.99 hardcover 978-981-19-8620-8, £24.99 paperback 978-981-19-8623…
03 April 2024
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.…
27 March 2024
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-…
27 March 2024
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…
25 March 2024
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…
20 March 2024
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…
18 March 2024
Pooja Ramamurthi argues that partnerships with bridging powers are increasingly vital to unpicking North-South gridlocks and effective climate cooperation. The latest report…
15 March 2024
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…
12 March 2024
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…
11 March 2024
Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits by Rob Geist Pinfold. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. 344 pp., £54 hardcover 9780197658857…