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The Painful, Seismic Shift in Humanitarian Aid - and What’s Next

Posted Dec 19, 2025| by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Once the largest funder of international humanitarian aid, the United States under the second Trump administration is pulling back. As part of the America First agenda, President Trump slashed aid across the board, with the effects hitting some of the world’s most vulnerable peoples the... Read More

The Post-Cultural State

Posted on Dec 19, 2025 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by Engelsberg Ideas

The bureaucracies that govern cultural life today are fundamentally uninterested in cultivating a proper sense of what art is, what it is ‘for’, and how new creations converse with the existing canon, notes Lola Salem in Engelsberg Ideas. A cultural malaise has quietly eroded the... Read More

Prioritising Care, Powering Economies: A G20 Agenda for Inclusive Growth and Women’s Empowerment

Posted on Dec 19, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Center for Global Development

The provision of care is currently distributed unequally along gender lines, with women providing the majority of paid and unpaid care work, globally. Across G20 nations, women do twice as much unpaid care work as men, reflecting harmful and systemic gender norms, as well as... Read More

Introducing the Young Person’s Guide to Storytelling

Posted on Dec 17, 2025 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by Club of Rome

Storytelling has shaped humanity since the dawn of time, and today it may matter more than ever. For centuries, humans have used stories to explain the world, unite communities and imagine futures that do not yet exist. This guide, published by the Club of Rome... Read More

The Anatomy of Displacement

Posted on Dec 19, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Danish Institute for International Studies

Displacement is a strategy, not a humanitarian side effect of a conflict, suggest Ahlam Chemlali and Lars Erslev Andersen in their report for the Danish Institute for International Studies. They examine the structural nature of displacement across Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon and argue... Read More

Green Skills in Africa: Comparative Insights from South Africa, Guinea and Ghana

Posted on Dec 17, 2025 | in category: Delivering sustainable economic growth | by European Centre for Development Policy Management

In this paper for the European Centre for Development Policy Management, Katja van der Meer and Pauline Veron examine how South Africa, Guinea and Ghana are developing green skills. They discuss how the three countries are developing the green skills needed for an equitable and... Read More

Rules, Discretion and Market Stabilisation in the Euro Area

Posted on Dec 17, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Think Tank of the European Parliament

Since its creation, the euro area has combined a centralised monetary policy with national fiscal frameworks and, initially, national banking supervision. In their report for the Think Tank of the European Parliament, Zsolt Darvas and Francesco Papadia assess the European Central Bank’s country-specific market-stabilisation instruments... Read More