by Chiara Rusconi | Oct 16, 2025 | Opinion
Opinion: The international development system we knew is gone, and there is no going back. What comes next depends on how we choose to respond. In European capitals of multilateralism — Geneva, Brussels, Vienna — a new season is dawning. The illusion that we could...
by Chiara Rusconi | Jan 27, 2025 | Opinion
The motto of this year’s World Economic Forum is “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age”. Who would disagree? But are we ready for such collaboration? Culturally, we are living in a pandemic of narcissism. Politically, polarisation, exclusion and apocalyptic...
by Pavithra | Jan 17, 2025 | Opinion
Our distinctive human ability to learn gives us a corresponding capacity to shape the future of life on Earth. That ability has demonstrated itself in extraordinary ways during the past 90 years. During this brief and distinctive period of accelerated learning, our...
by Pavithra | Oct 24, 2024 | Opinion
Since the 20th century, The Club of Rome, among others, has been raising the alarm about the harm that extractive and exploitative economic growth would cause to social and ecological systems. Looking at this year’s World Economic Forum’s global risk report, we can...
by Pavithra | Oct 7, 2024 | Opinion
The polycrisis is ubiquitous. We fight it but we fail to dissolve it. We exhaust ourselves in calls for action, activism, and even more research on what is already known. We fight and continue fighting for change. Yet, what if change was not a matter of fighting but...
