Can the Global Fragility Act Help Prevent Conflicts Before They Start? | Dr. Dafna Rand
In the midst of the impeachment drama unfolding in Washington, DC a rare thing happened: Republicans and Democrats came together and in an overwhelmingly bi-partisan move, supported a bill known as th...
27 Jan 202025min
Burkina Faso is Experiencing a Surge in Violence
Burkina Faso, the landlocked country in West Africa, is in the midst of an escalating humanitarian emergency. Over half a million people have been displaced in the last year -- a 500% increase from on...
23 Jan 202025min
What Happened With Haiti Earthquake Reconstruction?
On January 12 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives. Millions more were made homeless. Around the world, there was a huge outpouring of suppo...
20 Jan 202024min
Why The Crisis in Syria is About To Get Worse
The conflict in Syria is entering a new phase. Over the last several years Syrian government forces, backed by outside powers like Russia and Iran, have steadily regained control of territory held by ...
16 Jan 202030min
A Looming Crisis With North Korea, Again
We may be in for a very turbulent year of nuclear diplomacy with North Korea Since 2018, North Korea has had a self-imposed moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons and long range missiles, like...
13 Jan 202031min
Iran Crisis -- What Comes Next?
I spoke to my guest today, Ilan Goldenberg, just a couple hours after Donald Trump addressed the nation following an Iranian missile attack on bases in Iraq. The Iranian attack, of course, was in reta...
8 Jan 202027min
How to Promote Tolerance in Myanmar, a country that recently experienced a genocide
In 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya muslims were driven from their homes in Myanmar. At the time, a UN official called this a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing." And today, the government o...
6 Jan 202032min
Why Do We Lie About Foreign Aid?
Pablo Yanguas is a research fellow at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. He is the author of the new book "Why We Lie About Aid: Development and the Messy Politics of Ch...
2 Jan 202028min
