March 6, 2024
44 MINS
Our perverse and wasteful economy is no longer serving the needs of humanity. We need to proactively and urgently rethink the foundations of our economic system so that it creates security and stability for all, not a privileged few.
January 11, 2024
44 MINS
Renewed tensions between the global powers highlight the dangers of global war at a time when the international arms control architecture has unraveled. We must not lose hope; there is a path to end wars and unite the world.
December 27, 2023
47 MINS
Managing the transition to a renewable energy global economy is a complex undertaking that will require the sharing of knowledge, imaginative schemes to raise resources to finance it, and a new ethos of international cooperation.
November 30, 2023
45 MINS
We face a future fraught with existential risks. Future generations deserve a rekindling of the enthusiasm for institutional innovations that we last saw at the end of World War II. From climate change to disarmament, the agenda is urgent, and we cannot fail to act.
October 11, 2023
37 MINS
Democratic legitimacy is a core pillar of good governance. Moving toward the establishment of a global parliament, even if initially with largely advisory powers, would be a powerful innovation to our flawed international governance architecture.
July 18, 2023
45 MINS
There are multiple sources of risk to our future, from accelerating climate change, to renewed arms races and an unsteady nuclear order, to unresolved poverty and inequality problems. But we must not despair: these challenges are amenable to creative solutions.
July 1, 2023
53 MINS
How can an enhanced recognition of the interconnectedness of science and religion contribute to helping us understand how to better govern our increasingly interdependent global community of nations?
June 28, 2023
34 MINS
Latin America is by far the most violent continent in the world. Transnational organized crime, weak rule of law and the highest levels of inequality on the planet are the culprits. A Criminal Court against Transnational Organized Crime could be part of the solution.
April 30, 2023
39 MINS
We need to fill an accountability vacuum with respect to kleptocratic regimes that are engaged in grand corruption. Grand corruption has huge economic costs and undermines efforts aimed at sustainable development.
April 4, 2023
48 MINS
How can human rights become a catalyst for the transformation of latent capacities into capabilities that will create the conditions for the development of the human family? Why is this question vital for the future of humanity?
March 30, 2023
49 MINS
International criminal law has evolved in impressive ways over the past half a century. What are some of the key questions that emerge as we seek to empower our courts to constrain states to act within the bounds of the rule of law?
March 15, 2023
56 MINS
We have had “nuclear peace” since 1945, following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At a time when arms control agreements are quickly unraveling, how to reinforce the guardrails that will deliver a world free of the scourge of nuclear weapons?
March 2, 2023
49 MINS
A conversation held in Madrid at the Instituto de Empresa—one of Spain's leading universities—focused on some of our most critical global catastrophic risks.
February 6, 2023
56 MINS
Johns Hopkins University Professor Daniel Deudney compellingly argues that our current nuclear weapons stalemate is neither viable nor stable, putting at great risk our one and only home: spaceship Earth. Why is nuclear arms control and disarmament our only way out?
January 6, 2023
42 MINS
Climate change will interact in toxic ways with food security and precipitate more frequent episodes of civil unrest and political instability. How can we strengthen the resilience of our food systems to an acceleration of climate change?