The Impacts of Proliferation of Arms in Africa
Conflicts have been Africa’s biggest challenge for decades, despite efforts by various local and international stakeholders to bring lasting peace to the continent. As...
Understanding the Numbers: The Lives of Syrian Refugees
By Jeffrey H. Cohen
The life of a refugee is not easy. At least 6.6 million Syrians had been internally displaced, and nearly 5 million...
Africa’s Green Revolution? Raising Awareness of New Rice Crops for Africa (NERICAs)
By Aliou Diagne, Steven Glover, Ben Groom and Jonathan Phillips
A Green Revolution in West African agriculture will rely on new technologies such as NERICA...
Empowering Lives With Zakat: Why We Need More Transparency And Innovation
By Namira Samir and Imad el Fadili
A recent study by Sumner (2012) suggested that approximately 960 million people from 1.3 billion poor people in...
China is Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
By Peter Koenig
“China’s 70-Years Development and the Construction of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind”. This is the title of an International...
A Nobel Prize in Physics That We Can All Understand
By Gary Yohe
Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann were awarded shares of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for scientific work that is both understandable...
Fixing the World Economic Forum
By Shawn Pope
Although the World Economic Forum is a well known target of criticism, being seen by many as a secretive annual confabulation of...
A Watershed in the Financing of Infrastructure for Water Security
By John Briscoe
Water is a basic necessity – crucial not only for sustaining life, but also for facilitating sustainable economic growth. Below, Professor John...
Wise up to Water Risks at the 2013 World Water Week in Stockholm
By Josh Weinberg & Maya Rebermark, Communications, SIWI
Hydrologists like to call water the ‘bloodstream of the planet’. But it is much more than that....
Affordable Housing in Emerging Economies and The Case for Steel
By Akbar Imran Butt
July the 16th, 2019 commemorates the 50th Anniversary of NASA spacecraft Apollo 11’s moon landing. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, accompanied by Buzz...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The NATO Alliance: Will It Have a Future?
By Joseph Mazur
Withdrawal and isolation could avoid foreign affairs and wars, but the costs will be far higher in the long run.
Since the end of the Second World War, NATO has been a cornerstone...
