Michigan State Murders: What We Know About Campus Shootings and the Gunmen Who Carry...
By David Riedman and James Densley
A gunman opened fire at Michigan State University on Feb. 13, 2023, killing three people and injuring five others before taking...
The Dark Plight of Immigrants in the Racist Era of Trump
By Alvaro Huerta
This essay argues that President Donald J. Trump represents an existential threat to immigrants in the United States. Trump’s immigration rhetoric and...
What Americans Can Learn from Other Cultures About the Language of Gratitude
By Jeremy David Engels and Elaine Hsieh
Families and friends traditionally gather to express gratitude during this time of year. Many also participate in acts...
Growing up in lockdown: young people give their perspectives
By Professor Barry Percy-Smith
Throughout the pandemic, decisions made by adults have had a significant impact on all aspects of young people’s lives, yet...
American Millennials and the World
By A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner
The 9/11 attacks have been the defining event of the American millennial generation. The article discusses how American...
Emphasizing Zakat and Waqf for Global Zero Hunger
By Randi Swandaru and Priyesta Rizkiningsih
The significant global temperature rise in the last decade has derailed the world zero hunger attainment. The increase in...
Adapting In An Ever-Changing Business World: When Culture Meets Biology To Survive
By David De Cremer
The world today is changing all the time. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were reminded that events and...
India’s pandemic exodus was a biological disaster and stranded migrant workers should be classified...
By Malavika Rao
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On March 24, 2020, the Indian government announced a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. In the past year, various state governments have...
Multinationals don’t approach investing in Africa the same way: the differences matter
By Colin David Reddy and Ralph Hamann
There are growing expectations across the world for companies to show their commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR). This is...
Reparations for slavery and colonial abuses: how behavioural science can help
By David Comerford
Germany has agreed to pay Namibia more than €1.1 billion (£940 million) in reparations for committing genocide during the colonial occupation of the country...
As Afghanistan falls, what does it mean for the Middle East?
By Tony Walker
In the 19th century, the phrase “The Great Game” was used to describe competition for power and influence in Afghanistan, and neighbouring...
Chile: The Capitalist Alternative to Venezuela in Latin America
By Rainer Zitelmann
Chile and Venezuela are the two counter-models in Latin America. Chile embodies the capitalist path, while Venezuela the socialist path. But Chile has...
Religious Leaders Without Religion: How Humanist, Atheist and Spiritual-But-Not-Religious Chaplains Tend to Patients’ Needs
By Amy Lawton
In times of loss, change or other challenges, chaplains can listen, provide comfort and discuss spiritual needs. These spiritual caregivers can be...
What Are We Doing Today to Prevent Our Company’s Next Ethical Disaster?
By David De Cremer
Imagine that you are walking past a restaurant where you clearly see that the condition of the electric wiring in the...
Work Addiction Can Be Harmful to Mental Health
By Professor Teena Clouston
As a culture, we’ve come to value growth and productivity, making paid work not only a necessity, but a central concern in peoples’ lives....
How Cryptocurrency Can Help Non-profits and Investors Thrive in the ‘New Normal’
By Thomas Cauley
A decade ago nonprofit leaders were talking about the ways donors could change the world through social media. Today we’re talking about cryptocurrency.
The...
Why Guanxi Matters in Business Relationships with China
By Bang Nguyen and David De Cremer
Business relationships between China and Europe have existed for quite some time and with the a renewed focus...
eColonialism Theory: How Trends are Changing the World
By Thomas L. McPhail
In this information age, new trends and ways of doing things have changed dramatically. From work, to school, to entertainment and...
The Corona Crisis: The Rothschilds? Bill Gates? The Search for a Scapegoat Has Begun
By Rainer Zitelmann
It is almost a law of human nature: In any crisis, natural disaster or epidemic, sooner or later people will begin to search...
COVID Vaccines Rollout are Starting to Arrive – Here’s How Everyone will Get Them
By Sarah Schiffling and Dr Liz Breen
The first batch of COVID vaccine has arrived in the UK, and the NHS has embarked on the largest...
The Craziest Superstitions & Why They Exist
Superstitions are a crazy thing. Some of us swear by them, others will purposely step on the cracks, walk under ladders and generally just...
Black Lives Matter in Jamaica: Debates about Colourism Follow Anger at Police Brutality
By Henrice Altink
Across the world, Black Lives Matter protests are continuing in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. In the...
The Russian Federation, President Putin and the Russian Military are Financially Liable to Ukraine...
By Charles H. Camp, Kiran Nasir Gore and Lilia Chu
The ongoing crisis prevents the Ukrainian public from accessing judicial remedies in Ukraine or Russia...
Nobel peace prize: hunger is a weapon of war but the World Food Programme...
By Susanne Jaspars
By awarding the 2020 Nobel peace prize to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the Nobel committee said that it wanted to “turn the...
Popular Music as an Avenue for Coping and Mental Health Awareness
Popular music is a collective term for music that has a huge appeal to a large-scale audience from around the world. It has a...
How Organisational Culture Affects Business Performance in Nigeria
By Anthony Abiodun Eniola, PhD
The small and medium scale enterprise (SME) sector plays a critical economic role in both developed and developing countries. It...
How to Express Yourself if you Want Others to Cooperate with You – New...
By Magda Osman, Agata Ludwiczak, Devyani Sharma and Zoe Adams
Collective action is often the key to creating dramatic social or environmental changes, be it...
Hong Kong and the Audacity of the United States
By Peter Koenig
People often ask and hint at the similarities between the Hong Kong protests and the French Yellow Vests. The former started on...
The Despair of American Youths under an Overly ‘Critical Society’
By Chan Kung
A recent tragic incident in the United States has stunned the world. This incident, is not merely “domestic terrorism”, but its root...
Plus Size Fashion: Capitalistic Feminism or Empowerment?
Imagine you’re a woman trying on clothes in the dressing room. Suddenly the zipper won’t close. The jeans won’t fit. You feel yourself squeezing...
Four-day week: How Workplaces can Successfully Establish It
By Rita Fontinha and James Walker
Many workplaces have been experimenting with different types of flexible working arrangements for years now, but the pandemic has...
Jeff Bezos is Looking to Defy Death – This is What We Know About...
By Daniel M. Davis
Jeff Bezos is on a mission to conquer ageing. He has just recruited Hal Barron from GlaxoSmithKline to help lead Altos Labs, the...
New Year’s Resolutions – if the Future is Preordained Can We Really Change?
By Matyáš Moravec
Many of us set ourselves New Year’s resolutions hoping to form better habits. Some of us might want to be more environmentally friendly....
Climate Crisis: What to Consider if You’re Questioning Whether to Have Children
By Jasmine Fledderjohann and Laura Sochas
The warnings about the disastrous impact we are having on our planet are becoming more dire. The UN Environment...
Open Letter to the Covid-Corrupted Media
By Peter Koenig
We, The People, are concerned about worldwide media reporting about covid.
Are you, Western Media Moguls, realizing that there is hardly anything else...
Be a Fool! It’s What Crisis Leadership Really Needs
By David De Cremer
It’s hard to see a crisis coming. Crisis situations usually arrive at moments we do not expect it and as a...
Duterte’s Global Impact
From the Editors
On 1st July 2016, Rodrigo Duterte will begin his term as the President of the Republic of the Philippines.
Mr Duterte has formidable...
‘The Anniversary Effect’: What one full year in lockdown has done to our psyche
In every corner of the world, you are confronted with various media recapping the past year and dissecting exactly how the pandemic has radically...
China’s Product Safety Problem: How Should Marketing Managers Make Ethical Decisions in China?
By Bang Nguyen and David De Cremer
China has been known to be the world’s largest manufacturer, but its growth has reduced and thus is...
Lessons from Around the World on Fighting COVID’s Second Wave
By Jimmy Whitworth
As the northern hemisphere moves into winter, coronavirus rates are rising in parts of Europe and the USA. Experts are warning of...
Corporate Scandals – Cauldrons of Spilt Trust
By Douglas Bryson & Glyn Atwal
Trust is a big word. In this article, the authors elaborate on the elements and issues around corporate scandals,...
Collaborative Water Management Can Be a Building Block for Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians
By Clive Lipchin and Richard Friend
Water is a central element of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israel controls several water...
Corporate Philanthropy’s COVID-19 Test
By Kalyah Ford and Renée Karibi-Whyte
As the COVID-19 pandemic impacts hundreds of thousands of lives and the very fabric of society globally, corporate philanthropy is playing a...
What Do We Know About Mass Shootings?
By Frederic Lemieux
In this article, the author examines key elements defining mass shootings and the evolution of definitions over time. The article also scrutinises...
The 3 Myths of Employee Autonomy
By Carsten Lund Pedersen
Employee autonomy is becoming one of the latest trends in business management with many industries failing to implement and benefit from...
Race and Caste: Worlds Apart But Closer Than You Think
By Rajesh Sampath
Combining historical knowledge and awareness of the present situation in America and India, one can deduce that racial and caste-based discrimination are...
Cyber Racism and What Can Be Learnt from Australia
By Andrew Jakubowicz
Cyber racism has become a widely recognised scourge of the Internet, interacting with violent radicalisation and cyber bullying to make the worldwide...
“The COVID-19 Crisis” as an Opportunity for Introspection: A Multi-level Reflection on Values, Needs,...
By Simon L. Dolan, Mario Raich, Anat Garti and Avishai Landau
The current period of misery and even despair surround us. It is perhaps an opportune moment to reflect on...
Why Everyday Decisions Feel So Stressful – And What to Do About It
By Dr. Yaniv Hanoch
Almost every morning I face the same dilemmas. Whether I should wake up my wife with a kiss or let her...
Sex Work is Real Work: Global COVID-19 Recovery Needs to Include Sex Workers
By Deeplina Banerjee and Andrea Burke
During the pandemic, business shifted from in person to work-from-home, which quickly became the new normal. However, it left many...
COVID-19 has shown that following the same road will lead the world over a...
By Ian Goldin
Despite the tragic deaths, suffering and sadness that it has caused, the pandemic could go down in history as the event that rescued...
Ukraine: War Has An Impact On People’s Health Beyond Bullets And Bombs
By Andrew Lee
According to the UN human rights office, 136 civilians have died in the war on Ukraine so far. But it acknowledges that the figure...
Confucian Culture and the International Trend of Legalising Same-Sex Marriage
By Karen Lee
Steeped in centuries-old Confucian family order, China appears to be an unlikely place for same-sex marriage. A growing sense of activism, however,...
COVID-19: We Must Use Behavioral Science to Communicate Better during the Delicate Reopening Period
By Carlos Scartascini, Déborah Martínez, and Ana María Rojas
The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus has surpassed 5 million worldwide. However,...
Sri Lanka – Candidate for a New NATO Base?
By Peter Koenig
Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019: More than half a dozen bomb blasts shook the country killing from 250 to...
Are Rich People More Intelligent? Here’s What the Science Says
By Giovanni Sala and Fernand Gobet
From White Lotus to Succession, there’s high demand for television dramas about the super rich. The characters on these shows are typically...
The Evolutionary Reasons Humans Love Pets – And Nine Benefits of Having One
By Daniel Mills
We’ve all read stories about owners’ love for their pets, but you might be taken aback to hear how some people are...
Hindu Nationalism and the Consolidation of Hate Politics in India
By Kalim Siddiqui
When we look back, since the demolition of the Babri Masjid a quarter of century ago, it seems a well-planned and well-thought...
Anarchy in the USA: Five Years On, the Legacy of Occupy Wall Street and...
By Ruth Kinna, Alex Prichard and Thomas Swann
It was a turning point in the story of a new kind of democracy – and how...
2016 Elections: The Political Process as a Mechanism of Control
By Vince Montes
This article examines the US political process and the duopoly party system within a vast array of state strategies and elite manipulation....
Food and Fuel Excess: The Dark Side of America’s Exceptionalism
By Robert Paarlberg
By a wide margin, the United States leads the rich countries of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) both in...
Deconstructing And Dismantling The Rape Culture In India
By Parul Verma
Since the post-colonial era, India has witnessed a history of sexual assault, molestation, rape and violence against its women. On the rise...
Communities, Not Countries, are Best Equipped to Fix the World’s Economic Woes
By Peter Block
As anxieties about an economically unstable future grow globally, there is an alternative mindset much closer to home–literally just around the corner,...
Why Another Lockdown Might be Needed in February 2021
By Dr Peter Sivey and Dr James Gaughan
England recently emerged from a four-week lockdown into a series of tiered restrictions, and there is good...
Superforcasters: What Pandemic Planners Can Learn From The World’s Best Predictors
Experts got it catastrophically wrong, according to Dominic Cummings, UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser. Cummings has argued that the UK government’s official scientific...
More Innovation Can Creatively Destroy Firearm Violence
By Dan Prud'homme
We need more investment in two types of technologies that could dramatically reduce gun violence in America: better non-lethal arms and a...
Iran Executes First Protester as Human Rights Abuses Come Under International Scrutiny
By Sahar Maranlou
Iran’s execution of protester Mohsen Shekari is the first after a huge wave of unrest swept around the country in the autumn of 2022.
Shekari...
South Africa Needs to up its Game When it Comes to Financial Inclusion for...
By Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo
The financial gap between men and women is a global problem. It’s a problem because excluding women financially prevents them from participating...
How Digital Innovation Is Changing Life Sciences and the Way We Treat Dementia
By Jessica Wong
Every year, dementia kills more Americans1 than prostate cancer and breast cancer combined. Advances in life sciences are moving researchers, patients, and...
Coronavirus new variant – genomics researcher answers key questions
By Lucy van Dorp
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the disease in...
Our Research Shows Home Working Didn’t Harm Mental Health at the Start of the...
By Jacques Wels
One of the key changes to our daily lives brought about by the COVID pandemic was, for those able to do so,...
The Legal Implications of Humanitarian Aid Blockades
By Eugène Bakama Bope
It’s been over three months since the start of the conflict between the Tigrayan regional government and the Ethiopian government, yet...
Gender Confessions and Postmodern Auto Da-Fé
By Julian Vigo
Transgender politics today function very similarly to auto da-fé where the subject must not only have something to confess, she is obligated...
Filming Genocide
By William Guynn
Film, with its tangible relationship to the world it “captures”, can offer us, in flashes of insight, an immediate and unexpected access...
We Will Not Stop Talking about Racism
By Lawrence Ware and Rebecca Martinez
Many white people want to stop talking about racism. Consciousness implies action, and that kind of talking about race,...
Say Hello to Japan’s New Generation Workers
By Alecsandra Tubiera
The new generation – or mostly known as the millennial generation – is the current age of workers in Japan, innovating ideas...
The Challenges and Importance of Institutions Building in the Developing Countries
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
There has been on-going debate about the utility of the ‘free market’ system versus ‘government intervention’ in promoting development policies and...
How the Brexit Referendum was Trumped: Personality, Protest and Patriotism
By Glyn Atwal and Douglas Bryson
In this article, the authors contend the electioneering style of what they label “Trumpism” was distinctly manifested and a...
A Time for European Diplomacy to Come of Age: Responding to the Refugee Crisis
By Susi Dennison
“People will always want to migrate for a better life: this is a constant reality.” But the harrowing images on the news...
Delta variant Makes it Even More Important to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine, even if...
By Jennifer T. Grier
As someone who studies immune responses to respiratory infections, I’ve watched news of the emerging coronavirus variants with concern. I wondered whether...
9 reasons you can be optimistic that a vaccine for COVID-19 will be widely...
By William Petri
As fall approaches rapidly, many are wondering if the race for a vaccine will bear fruit as early as January 2021.
I...
Harvesting The Biosphere
By Vaclav Smil
Humanity has been harvesting an increasing share of the Earth’s photosynthetic productivity. This has already resulted in a new world where the...
On Economic Inequality
By Harry G. Frankfurt
Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. In this article, Harry Frankfurt, one of the most...
Myanmar: memes and mantras of a new generation of democracy protesters
By Richard Dolan
What do the internet memes Doge and Cheems, the Hollywood film franchise The Hunger Games, and a sachet of instant tea have in common? They...
How Sport Became the New Religion – a 200-Year Story of Society’s ‘Great Conversion’
By Hugh MacLeod
“Jesus Christ was a sportsman.” Or so claimed a preacher at one of the regular sporting services that were held throughout the...
Global Destruction, The COVID-19 Lockdown: Economic and Social Impacts
By Peter Koenig
Planned Destruction of World-wide Economy
What we have to realize is that the global, country-by-country destruction – happening simultaneously – is not a...
The Climate Crisis Dilemma
By Graham Vanbergen
The climate crisis is now changing global finance – Graham Vanbergen asks the question do we want to pay for it now...
How the pandemic may damage children’s social intelligence
By Professor Barbara J Sahakian, Dr Christelle Langley, Professor Fei Li and Jianfeng Feng
Do you remember the excitement and anticipation of your first...
Ten Reasons Why Majority Of Millennial Wants To Be Social Influencers
By Stella Lincoln
Social media influencers have become significantly famous today. Here you become a blogger/influencer and have unique content; there, you gain thousands of...
Culture, Power and Applied Anthropology in a Corporate Setting
By Amitai Touval
Businesses rely on experts to intervene in situations in which organisational culture intersects with problems of power and control. While anthropologists are...
Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation: The Consequences and Implications over the Last 25 Years
By Oliver P. Richmond
Recent years have seen an abundance of foreign intervention to achieve peace and statebuilding. Below, Oliver Richmond discusses how statebuilding...
Pandemic Babies Behind on Communication at Age Two – But Other Developmental Areas Remain...
By Susan Byrne and Jonathan Hourihane
The world changed for all of us when we were suddenly plunged into a pandemic in 2020. COVID sent...
With Male Imperial Descendants Dwindling, Will Japan’s Leaders Finally Accept a Female Emperor?
By Masafumi Monden
Princess Aiko, the only child of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, came of age last month as she turned 20. Despite her...
Why the Media is a Key Dimension of Global Inequality
By Nick Couldry and Clemencia Rodriguez
This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network....
Children – Civilization’s Future, Victims of Western Brutality
By Peter Koenig
The United Nations Universal Children's Day – 20 November – has come and gone – and nothing has changed. No action that...
Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation: The Consequences and Implications over the Last 25 Years
By Oliver P. Richmond
Recent years have seen an abundance of foreign intervention to achieve peace and statebuilding. Below, Oliver Richmond discusses how statebuilding...
Emoji: New Language or Trend?
By Marcel Danesi
As societies change and grow, language too, evolves. In this article, the author analyses the rise of the emoji as a means...
United Airlines, Artificial Intelligence, and Donald Trump: Reawakening Values in the Era of Fake...
By Avi Liran and Simon L. Dolan
Society has evolved and not all aspects of our lives were able to cope up with the changes...
Children’s Views Should be Taken into Account When Designing Urban Space
By Jenny Wood
Children see the world in a different way to adults, but urban planning policies rarely take this into account. By focusing on...
Financial Oligarchy vs. Feudal Aristocracy
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh and Anthony A. Gabb
In this article the authors explore how modern capitalism mirrors the feudal system of centuries ago where today,...