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Brazil and the Amazon: 50 Years of Shifting Policy and Global Consequence

For the past 50 years, Brazil’s management of the Amazon rainforest has been on a rollercoaster between development and preservation, with impact on not just Brazil’s environmental health, but also the global climate.

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Ecological Threat Report 2025 Briefing - COP30 Edition

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Election plans amid Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis and ongoing conflict

The country's first election in nearly five years is scheduled for December 2025 amidst ongoing violence and humanitarian distress.

Collaborative Flourishing: How Positive Peace Principles Drive Business Success

New research demonstrates that the Institute for Economics & Peace's eight pillars of Positive Peace can transform how businesses operate, creating...

Rising Ecological Threats in Northwestern Africa: Tunisia’s Worsening Water Crisis

The rapid escalation of water risk in Tunisia, exacerbated by ageing infrastructure and prolonged climatic shocks, has heightened the human costs.

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Brazil and the Amazon: 50 Years of Shifting Policy and Global Consequence

For the past 50 years, Brazil’s management of the Amazon rainforest has been on a rollercoaster...

Rising Ecological Threats in Northwestern Africa: Tunisia’s Worsening Water Crisis

The rapid escalation of water risk in Tunisia, exacerbated by ageing infrastructure and prolonged...

How India and Pakistan’s co-operation over water has avoided conflict 

India and Pakistan’s shared dependence on the Indus River has, for six decades, been governed by...

Amazon Risks Rising from Ecological Threats

The wider Amazon basin has become increasingly vulnerable to prolonged droughts and large-scale...

The world’s dependency on Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is increasing 

Despite its relatively small footprint in global trade, Taiwan holds an outsized role in the...

Russia’s War Economy: Growth Built on Unsustainable Foundations 

Russia’s recent economic performance appears deceptively strong, however core indicators point to...

Shifting Priorities: Europe’s Military Awakening and the Real Challenge of Defence Integration

Focusing disproportionately on military expenditure could undermine the very stability that defence...

China v United States battle for influence expanding

New hotspots are emerging in the battle for influence between super powers China and the US,...

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Brazil and the Amazon: 50 Years of Shifting Policy and Global Consequence

For the past 50 years, Brazil’s management of the Amazon rainforest has been on a rollercoaster...

Rising Ecological Threats in Northwestern Africa: Tunisia’s Worsening Water Crisis

The rapid escalation of water risk in Tunisia, exacerbated by ageing infrastructure and prolonged...

How India and Pakistan’s co-operation over water has avoided conflict 

India and Pakistan’s shared dependence on the Indus River has, for six decades, been governed by...

Amazon Risks Rising from Ecological Threats

The wider Amazon basin has become increasingly vulnerable to prolonged droughts and large-scale...

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Collaborative Flourishing: How Positive Peace Principles Drive Business Success

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Modelling the Economic Opportunity of Peace

The Institute for Economics & Peace’s Business and Peace Report 2024 models how nations could...

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Growing without prosperity: how Africa can turn a youth boom into wealth

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