Cyber. It is the inescapable prefix defining our world today. From the privacy of individuals to relations between states, cyber dominates discussions and headlines – so much so that we risk being paralyzed by the magnitude of the problems we (...)
Conflict remains the world's greatest problem; conflict prevention our biggest hope, but if we do not face down crime and uphold justice, we simply risk swapping the challenges. Over the last century crime has been transformed. Mobsters are more (...)
Somali piracy off the Horn of Africa was once estimated by the World Bank to cost global trade billions of dollars, and to harm the fragile economies of countries in the region.
These disastrous financial costs, at a time of painful global downturn, (...)
Across the world tens of thousands of women and girls are being loved to death.
Take a wide angle snapshot of these deaths and violent assaults and they become a recitation of women attacked in desperate circumstances.
Strangulations, often with (...)
Conflict, terrorism, economic turmoil, natural calamities, disease: we are living in an era of unprecedented crises and troubles, as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned.
Record numbers of people are fleeing war and persecution, (...)
We live in a world that questions the value of everything, but we know science-based drug prevention works and is extremely cost effective. For every US$1 spent, we could save US$10 in terms of future health treatment and crime costs.
Drug use in (...)