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Aviation and Global Sustainability, Pt II

by Claire Waghorn | Jun 19, 2020 | Board

Aviation is a force for good. It broadens the mind. It connects people with new cultures, experiences, places and opportunities; and it underpins the global economy. Yet, its dependency on fossil fuel is harmful. What, then, to do? Aviation currently...

Aviation and Global Sustainability, Pt I

by Claire Waghorn | Jun 18, 2020 | Board

International aviation has landed – abruptly. The global COVID-19 pandemic has seen closed borders, on-going travel restrictions, decreasing passenger demand, airline lay-offs and bankruptcy. It is undoubtedly the biggest challenge the aviation industry has faced, to...

How Should the Global Community Deal with Extremism?

by Abbas Nazari | May 28, 2020 | Young Global Scholars Group

Extremism, in all its forms – political, religious, ethnic, gender, generational – is, in short, an extreme version of a belief system. It can be promoted peacefully, and within the normal bounds of freedom of speech. And it can, of course, spill over into hate...

Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

by Ashutosh Misra | May 17, 2020 | Guests

The title-phrase derives from Hindu scripture. It is found in the Upanishads, and the full verse remains engraved on the entrance to the Parliament of India. Essentially, the world is one family. For centuries, the phrase has shaped India’s spiritual and egalitarian...

Systemic Global Change: Two Ingredients

by Sundeep Waslekar | May 8, 2020 | Guests

The international community of states, today, is so heavily engaged in deadly rivalry and competition that we have forgotten the idea of global unity and cooperation. The latter is, however, a precondition of human survival. The year 2020 began with Avangard finding...

Global Responses to the Pandemic, Pt II

by Tapio Kanninen and Georgios Kostakos | May 7, 2020 | International Advisory Panel

In Part I, we focused primarily on the effort of the UN and WHO, and its relationship with some of the major member states. In this part, we explore in more depth the internal dynamics of those powerful countries. National responses – ideological and political...

Global Responses to the Pandemic, Pt I

by Tapio Kanninen and Georgios Kostakos | May 6, 2020 | International Advisory Panel

How have the UN and other international organizations – and indeed the whole global governance system – responded to the COVID-19 outbreak? What are we learning from this response? Back in 2010 we examined (Journal of International Organizations Studies)...

The Future of University: Post-Covid

by Chris Gallavin and Tim Hatherley-Greene | May 5, 2020 | Board

The Covid-19 induced crisis presents all walks of society with an opportunity to re-evaluate. No more important is that, than in the university sector. It is no secret that the university sector globally has been in crisis for some years. Pre-Covid, there were no...

Systemic Global Change: Part III

by Dr Kennedy Graham | Apr 30, 2020 | Director

In Part II of this blog series, three conclusions were drawn: This decade is likely to be a seminal moment of systemic change to the contemporary international system, updating its 20th features to fit the 21st. The legitimate grouping for decision-making should...

Environmental Victims in the Global Community

by Chris Williams | Apr 27, 2020 | International Advisory Panel

My 1998 book, ‘Environmental Victims’, sought to relate the intensifying spread of environmental problems around the world to issues of natural justice, international law, public health, social policy and international security. The project looked at environmental...