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(Russia) Russia’s collective punishment of the Crimean Tatars is a war crime (Atlantic Council)

Wayne Jordash and Anna Mykytenko According to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), 26 February, 2014, is the date that marks the beginning of...

(USA/Iran) With Iran, nuclear diplomacy comes first (Atlantic Council)

Mehran Haghirian Since Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, the new administration’s top foreign policy and national security figures have said repeatedly that the United...

(USA/Russia/Europe) Biden must freeze Putin’s pipeline and prevent this “bad deal for Europe” (Atlantic Council)

Benjamin Schmitt In August 2016, then US Vice President Joe Biden stood in Stockholm and declared the Kremlin-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline project to be a “bad...

(Afghanistan/USA) Afghans’ views on the Doha peace process and the Biden administration’s review of the US-Taliban peace agreement

Makhfi Azizi After briefly resuming on January 5, the intra-Afghan peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban have been slow to progress, and the two sides have not met since the...

(Climate Change) This is how much different commodities contribute to deforestation (WEF)

Mikaela Weisse, Elizabeth Dow-Goldman Seven agricultural commodities accounted for 26% of global tree cover loss from 2001 to 2015. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/7-commodities-forests-deforestation-environment-cattle-palm-oil-soy-coffee-climate-change-trees/

(Work) How businesses can help solve society’s workforce problems (WEF)

Bhushan Sethi COVID-19 has presented major challenges for organizations: adapting workplaces, supporting remote workers, furlough schemes and redundancies. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/businesses-solve-society-workforce-problems/

(Education) How COVID-19 has changed the way we educate children (WEF)

Cathy Li, Farah Lalani The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in worldwide school closures – during the peak of lockdown nearly 1.6 billion children were out...

(Space) Why countries are desperate to defy the odds and access Mars (WEF)

John Letzing Three countries have reached the Red Planet with missions in the past few weeks. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/why-is-mars-getting-so-crowded/

(Ethical Tech) 4 lessons on designing responsible, ethical tech: Microsoft case study (WEF)

Brian Green, Daniel Lim Responsible innovation begins with culture change and the proper tools. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/4-lessons-from-microsoft-on-designing-responsible-ethical-tech/

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