Examples from Ethiopia, Egypt, and Russia indicate that as civic space shrinks, traditional models of professionalized civil society work come under pressure.
Climate Action Network Director Wael Hmaidan discusses the prospects for a legally binding agreement coming from climate talks in Paris at the end of the month.
There will always be intractable cyber threat actors. The challenge is to generate adaptive and effective responses that are infused with the ingenuity and persistence to match, meet, and defeat similarly adaptive and committed…
It remains under-appreciated that the decision to escape, rather than participate in conflict or otherwise exploit weaknesses of governance, makes displacement a non-violent self-protection…
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