Why AI Readiness for West African Civil Society Cannot Be Leapfrogged
When mobile money transformed financial inclusion across West Africa in the 2000s and 2010s, it appeared to validate the idea…
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When Climate Lies Kill: Red-Tagging Indigenous Defenders in the Philippines
In an op-ed in The Diplomat, James Gomez from Asia Centre discusses how climate disinformation does not merely mislead public…
Orbán’s Defeat Marks Democratic Renewal in Hungary, Signalling New Possibilities for Europe and the U.S.
Viktor Orbán’s defeat marks a defining turning point not only for Hungary but for democracy around the world. After years…
How to Defeat the Authoritarian Message
When in 1929 Walter Lippmann assessed the likelihood of fascism spreading to Western countries, he categorically ruled out its reaching…
The Fog of AI War
An irreducible uncertainty haunts every battlefield: the fog of war. And for two centuries, military innovation has promised to lift…
The Problem With the Idea That Netanyahu Made Trump Attack Iran
There’s an argument flooding the media zone since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran that Israeli Prime Minister…
Securing the Vote Beyond Borders
IFES has released a new report on out-of-country voting (OCV), offering updated guidance for election authorities navigating an increasingly complex…
NIMD Honduras’s Democracy School Alumni step up for Honduras’s Elections
Amid a regional landscape marked by fragile democracies, internal tensions, and a citizenry increasingly disconnected from public institutions, Honduras held…
Who gets to lead, anyway? Transforming the systems that decide
The rollback of women’s rights is an integral feature of democratic decline. It is a recession indicator: where women’s rights contract, democracy is already…
The 764 Network: A Global Threat for Child Abuse and Radicalization
There is an urgent concern among researchers and law enforcement about a youth network engaged in the large-scale targeting, abuse,…