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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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.

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?

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?

There is an urgent need to think imaginatively about changing incentives and channeling financial resources to fund the transition to a renewable energy economy. We are falling short although we have the instruments to do it. Much is at stake if we fail.

We need to evolve from our long tradition of sovereign tribes focused on our narrow interests to the stage when our first loyalty will be to the common global good and to the building of supporting institutions to make this possible.

The European Union is the most important experiment in international economic and political integration. Its experiences highlight key lessons for the rest of the world, at a time of increasing factionalism and multiple threats to democracy.

Russia’s war on Ukraine has intensified the debate about the future of warfare in an age of rapid technological change. Our guest argues that we need to rethink the concept of national security away from unduly militaristic and outdated conceptions.

Our guest argues that there is more at stake in the war than Ukraine's future as an independent nation. The entire architecture of our rules-based global order is in danger of collapse.