Game theory applies to conflict and cooperation within competitive situations.
Lebanon’s political situation is already a delicate balance. Poverty, distress and increasing numbers of refugees could exacerbate existing tensions and lead to collapse.
Ali Hashisho/Reuters
For a military battle whose outcome is still hotly contested 30 years later, the impact was so remarkably clear – independence for Namibia, peace for Angola and the death knell for apartheid.
Police line up to defend Congress from protesters in the nation’s capital Brasilia, while the Temer government struggles.
Paulo Whitaker/Reuters
As we celebrate Africa Day and reflect on how far the continent has come since the Organisation of African Unity was founded in 1963, it’s a good time to assess whether democracy is working.
The impact of peace education or human rights courses ultimately depends on how teachers – who may not be neutral – implement them.
The Palm Sunday bombings of Coptic churches in Egypt last month once again put Islamic terrorism in the spotlight and left officials wondering what can be done to prevent it.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Religious state institutions wanting to address the rhetoric of violence in the name of religion must begin by reforming their relationship with the state.
A woman leaves a polling station after casting her vote during the 2013 Kenyan elections.
Reuters/Goran Tomasevic
Kenya’s progressive 2010 Constitution brought improved women’s representation in Parliament and public life. But historical prejudices remain, always more intensely apparent during elections.
We may think of current reactionary politics as radical and new, but unchecked mercantilism has always elicited a fierce backlash from both left and right. Here’s what history tells us about today.
Iranians want their country to remain open to economic and social opportunities, including by looking to the West.
Stella Morgana
The world’s media, which has in the past found Zambia uninteresting, are suddenly paying more attention to the impoverished nation, for all the wrong reasons.
UN member states are holding consultations as part of the development of a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
In a changing and unsettled world, migration can be a greater-than-ever contributor to development for communities of origin, destination areas, and for the migrants themselves.
Venezuela is among the countries in which popular resistance to repressive politics is on the rise.
Marco Bello/Reuters
There are groundswells of civic engagement in a handful of countries, but ensuring the survival of fundamental freedoms in these dangerous times will require a resistance that knows no borders.