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If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad?  No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion....

https://www.globaldashboard.org/2021/09/29/lets-make-climate-a-culture-war/

Official development assistance (ODA) – or aid – is a small but conspicuous pillar of the international order, and its frailties are being exposed by COVID as surely as those of the other fou...

https://www.globaldashboard.org/2021/03/29/big-elephants-and-small-islands-getting-beyond-the-new-aid-orthodoxy/

Since its onset, one striking feature of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has been the narrative power of its novelty. This global narrative depicts COVID-19 pushing humanity towards a ‘hist...

https://www.globaldashboard.org/2021/01/13/uncertainty-and-humanitarian-action-what-donald-rumsfeld-can-teach-us/

The year 2020 will go down in history as the year when much changed. One thing seems to remain constant: the fact that the justice sector is slow to change. As a consequence, it seems to be missi...

https://www.globaldashboard.org/2021/01/04/justice-is-missing-the-boat/

Since April, we have been calling for justice leaders of the world to get out of their national cubby holes and come together to share fears, failures, successes, and strategies, just like public...

https://www.globaldashboard.org/2020/10/28/an-emerging-ministers-of-justice-movement/

Depuis le mois d'avril, nous appelons les leaders de la justice du monde entier à sortir de leur cagibi national et à se réunir afin de partager leurs craintes, leurs échecs, leurs succès ai...

https://www.globaldashboard.org/2020/10/28/un-mouvement-emergent-des-ministres-de-la-justice/

It is increasingly clear that the direct and indirect impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic are not borne equally, hitting the most marginalised and vulnerable the hardest. While the impact of ...

https://www.globaldashboard.org/2020/10/22/justice-for-children-in-detention-during-the-pandemic/

My new book, How to Fight Inequality, is published today. I look back at when inequality had been beaten before, and found that inequality was never beaten through the grace of saviour leaders, b...

https://www.globaldashboard.org/2020/09/18/we-cant-rely-on-any-leader-to-pull-us-out-of-the-inequality-crisis-its-up-to-us/