Friday´s savage attack in Egypt is a reminder that the vast majority of terrorist-related killings occur in less well known cities far from the media glare. To be sure, the brutal murder ...
Coastal areas are exposed to various water-related hazards, including storm surges, flash floods and tsunamis. Nevertheless, these areas are highly attractive to human settlement, making ...
The short-lived reign of nation states is in decline. They are, after all, a late-comer to history. As recently as the mid-19th century, the world was divided into empires, city states an...
The dream of personal aerial transport appears tantalizingly within reach, as investors from Silicon Valley to Dubai vow to deliver the future of urban mobility. But rather than embracing...
The world is reeling from cascading threats. Climate change, pandemics, inequality, conflicts, terrorism and even the terrifying prospect of nuclear war are all on the rise. Yet exactly w...
The world has suffered an alarming increase in terrorism events over the past five years.
The world is facing unprecedented levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21.3 million refugees and 31 million internally displaced person...
Nation states are looking increasingly outdated and even dangerous. Some of them are outright belligerent, and threatening catastrophic war. While some nation states are exhibiting neo-im...
San Salvador is confronting a murder epidemic. The city is the world’s murder capital for the second year in a row. The homicide rate reached 136.7 per 100,000 residents in 2016 – at leas...
The global migration debate is sharpening. There is widespread alarm over the explosion of refugees – which reached 21.3 million people in 2016 – together with growing angst over economic...
What if you could predict where a crime will take place before it occurred, even determining the time of the incident and the identity of the culprit in advance? Sounds a bit like science...
We are an urban species. Homo urbanis is actively reshaping geopolitics, economics and climate action in the 21st century. And with good reason. While the world’s cities cover just 2% of ...
Watch the Politics of Fear or Rebellion of the Forgotten? from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017 here.
Each year roughly half a million people are murdered in and outside war zones around the world. Tens of millions more are psychologically and physically injured as a result of crime. Anot...
Cities are home to more than half the world's population, and that number continues to grow. How should they adapt to cope with demand? This is a question that will increasingly be answer...
