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Navigating between Stasis and Chaos: Crafting a Course through Disruptive Storms

Posted Aug 25, 2025| by Sean Cleary - Founder and Executive Vice-Chair of FutureWorld Foundation

The world is at an historical inflection point, defined by a shift in the geo-economic centre of gravity from the Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific; a lesser capacity by the United States to project power across the globe to maintain the “rules-based international order” that it... Read More

AI in African Education: Between Profit and the Public Good

Posted on Oct 16, 2025 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by European Center for Development Policy

Policymakers and educators are increasingly exploring how AI in education (AIED) can strengthen access and quality of education, and the private sector is developing solutions that respond to local contexts and languages. In this discussion paper of the European Center for Development Policy, Katja van... Read More

Why the West Should Take BRICS+ Seriously (But Not Literally)

Posted on Oct 16, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by The Diplomat

Brian Wong and Kevin Zongzhe Li note in their article for ‘The Diplomat’ that the BRICS countries have received growing attention and visibility in international discourses over recent years – in part due to intensifying geopolitical fissures between some members of the grouping and the... Read More

Hope and the Life Course – Results from a Longitudinal Study of 25 000 Adults

Posted on Oct 20, 2025 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by Brookings Institution

Hope is associated with higher resilience, ability to adapt, and internal locus of control. Hope also serves as a psychological buffer during bad times. Carol Graham and Redzo Mujcic find in this Brookings Institution article that respondents with high levels of hope were less likely... Read More

Educational Pluralism in Europe: Where We Are and the Way Forward

Posted on Oct 16, 2025 | in category: Sharing core norms and values | by Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies

Freedom and the right to education are foundational principles of the European Union’s constitutional framework. Educational pluralism, a way to organise education in which the government funds a wide variety of schools but holds all of them accountable for academic results, is recognised as essential... Read More

Reflecting on 25 Years of Women, Peace, and Security

Posted on Oct 20, 2025 | in category: Addressing vulnerability and promoting security | by Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

In 2000, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1325, establishing a framework that underpins the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda. However, reports of violence against women in conflict zones are on the rise, while democracy and women’s rights face growing political backlash worldwide... Read More

When Your Ally Turns Narcissistic: A Self-Help Manual for Europe Navigating Transatlantic Relations

Posted on Oct 20, 2025 | in category: Improving global governance | by Global Public Policy Institute

Since the start of the second Trump administration, every day has brought a new foreign policy controversy. Europe is in a particularly vulnerable position. Russia’s threat to European security has reached its highest level in 30 years, and although European defense capabilities are expanding, Europe... Read More