Month: January 2013

Dr Sara Davies recently attended the High-Level Cross-Sectoral Consultation on Pandemics as Threats to Regional and National Security conference. The conference was held in Manila on January 9th to 11th. The conference looked at how the modern, globalized economy reflects one, complex, interconnected, and interdependent socio-economic system. There is growing international awareness that this globalized […]

Originally posted in International Peace Institute’s Global Observatory, Alex Bellamy writes: “Understanding why some rebel groups commit atrocities allows us to predict these crimes in advance and target scarce resources toward their prevention. It also gives clues as to what those preventive strategies should look like.” Read the whole blog posting via The Human Protection […]

“To be held next week, the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum compel one to revisit John Maynard Keynes’ observation that “the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.” In particular, the Forum meetings highlight the ways in […]