The Role of Access to Trusted and Reliable Information Background The COVID-19 pandemic presents heightened risks for societies with low levels of social cohesion and a lack of trust between citizens and the state. The accompanying ‘infodemic’ makes matters worse by spreading harmful information that not only undermines health responses but also tears at the […]

The increasing use of disruptive technologies as IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and other IT-related disciplines is changing the way we understand business. This change is part of new digital culture in which the barriers between physical and virtual worlds are becoming narrower. We´re looking for entrepreneurs that have identified new opportunities thanks to the […]

Paramilitaries and irregular armed forces are, and have been, ubiquitous in conflicts world-wide: from Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, to the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda in the past few decades and, more recently, in Iraq, Syria and Ukraine. Many of them have perpetrated brutal attacks […]

The Covid-19 crisis is posing a challenge to the world in unprecedented ways and it is influencing our daily lives. It will most definitely also change our work in the humanitarian sector. This needs to be discussed: with humanitarian professionals, with policymakers, academics, and certainly also with a broader audience: citizens that are firmly interested […]