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The Additional (and Even Bigger) Challenge of Societal Complexity
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Ideas for Addressing Scale and Complexity to Build Upon
The first step toward constructively managing scale and complexity is to recognize that this is a long-standing problem and societies have already developed many effective complexity-oriented techniques that we can build on.
BI Article
Ashok Panikkar, Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess Discuss: Whither Peacebuilding? Is There Life After USAID and USIP?
The peacebuilding field has been seriously shaken by the closure of USAID and USIP. What does this (and other real-world pressures) mean for the field? A conversation with three people who have been thinking about these challenges for a long time.
Colleague Activities
Democracy is good for the economy. Can business defend it?
Democracies thrive because they are better at ensuring the provision of public goods. Democratic decline is associated with a panoply of economic "bads," including instability, brain drain, stagnation, and kleptocracy.
News and Opinion
How Democracy Can Defeat Autocracy
News and Opinion
For all its faults, democracy is still better than autocracy