This event addresses social vulnerability in the face of disasters and climate change, emphasising the role of women and indigenous...
Topic: Sustainable development
Water security: a critical analysis
As the idea of (global) water scarcity in the context of climate change gains prominence, the term "water security" is...
Multidimensional wellbeing beyond GDP
Sabina Alkire will discuss the existence of alternative and comprehensive ways to understand development not limited to income. She will...
Living in a complex world: can planetary health offer a way forward?
Join us for a thought-provoking lecture titled “Living in a Complex World - Can Planetary Health Offer a Way Forward?”...
Role of the youth for a sustainable and resilient future
Today, there are 1.2 billion young people aged 15 to 24 years, accounting for 16 per cent of the global...
Will the private sector be the driver of green transition?
Green transition used to be contested but is now a mainstream concern and economic incentives, public policies, technologies, and societal...
Human security and the war in Ukraine
A new world order is in place where perpetual violence has become the norm. So-called new wars, or “forever wars”,...
Accelerating action on sustainable goals
Halfway through the 15-year Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda, the goals seem more out of reach than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic...
From polycrisis towards inclusive and sustainable development
Under the best of international circumstances, the policy challenges posed by cascading crises would be daunting. But we are far...
Globalisation after COVID: Business as Usual, or Not?
As the world comes out of the Covid-19 pandemic, what are the major forces that will shape globalization? Will the more...
Engines in new extractives
17th December 2021: "Planetary scale Systems: From the internet packet to the algorithmic factory" 23rd February 2022: "Planetary scale systems:...
Economic and political development: the importance of institutions
The Kapuscinski Development Lecture was opened by dr. Anna Wróbel from the Department of Regional and Global Studies (Faculty of...
Economic recovery in the post-pandemic world
How will the world economy look like after the pandemic? Will governments take initiative to reshape their economies to better...
The narrow corridor: states, societies and the fate of liberty
As part of the Kapuscinski Development Lecture Series, Daron Acemoğlu, Institute Professor at MIT, gave a talk on “The Narrow...
European Union statecraft for sustainable development
Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University and Director of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, focused on...
#KAPTalks interviews: sustainability of development results
Ryszard Kapuscinski’s works addressed leading development issues of the 1970s, 1980s, and (arguably to a lesser extent) the 1990s. Have...
Inequality, exclusion and democracy
Mr. Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom opened his speech with an open question on how inequality...
#KAPTalks interviews: multilateralism helping effective solutions
Kapuscinski challenged us in his writings to see the world as it is, and at the same time to see...
#KAPTalks interviews: Kapuscinski’s concern about voices of people
When Ryszard Kapuscinski was addressing development issues, the world was clearly divided into blocs: the First World of advanced capitalist...
#KAPTalks interviews: Planetary labour market
Ryszard Kapuscinski’s works addressed leading development issues of the 1970s, 1980s, and (arguably to a lesser extent) the 1990s. Have...
#KAPTalks interviews: leave no one behind
Ryszard Kapuscinski’s works addressed leading development issues of the 1970s, 1980s, and (arguably to a lesser extent) the 1990s. Have...
#KAPTalks interviews: bold leadership needed
Ryszard Kapuscinski’s works addressed leading development issues of the 1970s, 1980s, and (arguably to a lesser extent) the 1990s. Have...
#KAPTalks interviews: Global Goals need more work
When Ryszard Kapuscinski was putting pen to paper, the biggest global challenge was human poverty, including high mortality among children...
#KAPTalks interviews: democractic empowerment of majorities
Ryszard Kapuscinski’s works addressed leading development issues of the 1970s, 1980s, and (arguably to a lesser extent) the 1990s. Have...
Taking peace-building to the world
Mr. José Ramos-Horta delivered a keynote speech at the Hertie School of Governance as part of the Kapuscinski Development Lecture...
Governance, Capture and Corruption: Solutions for a Changed World
Daniel Kaufmann addressed the questions of “What is governance?, Can it be measured?, Power of data, of facts, Does governance...
#KAPTalks interviews: ‘Think Locally, Act Globally’: A New Framework for European Development Cooperation
Can development cooperation be defended at a time of economic austerity in Europe? The moral imperative remains strong, but contemporary...
Netflix for Agriculture? Digital Technology for Development
The rapid spread of mobile phones in developing countries, coupled with recent advances in our ability to analyze big data...
Human security in the age of geopolitics, terrorism and new wars
We are living through a period of transition, which is characterized by competing conceptions of power and competing ways of...
Agenda 2030: Two Years In
This lecture formed part of the 6th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development took place in Alfred Lerner Hall on...
Achieving the SDGs: Lessons from the Social Progress Index
Mr. Michael Green began his lecture with an emphasis on the importance of the work of Ryszard Kapuściński, the ways...
Youth in movement
Across the globe a growing number of young women and men, both educated and non-educated, find themselves unemployed or underemployed,...
Democracy, Truth and the Perils of Information Age
In today’s world, new digital tools and the global reach of social media platforms have brought along a transformation of...
Global challenges, global solutions
On January 1, 2016, the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came into force. Over the next fifteen years, with these...
Resilience in the Anthropocene
The rise of resilience is intimately connected to the perceived failings of traditional, liberal or modernist forms of politics, which...
Moroccan-EU connection. Migration
Morocco has always experienced all types of migration: immigration and emigration, voluntary and forced migration as well as legal and...