Our Crisis Policy Forum is intended to explore both the pathologies that bring about and the best ways forward in dealing with major humanitarian crisis situations around the world.
Joseph Robertson started the forum topic The Oakland Crackdown: How to Reverse City's Aggression? in the group Crisis Policy Forum 6 months, 3 weeks ago
The city of Oakland is experiencing a deep crisis of conscience, amid what appears to be the moral confusion of its administration. The mayor, who had marched with the Occupy Oakland demonstrators, has now ordered […]
Joseph Robertson posted on the forum topic Psychic Numbing: Why Does Mass Suffering Induce Mass Indifference? in the group Crisis Policy Forum: 1 year, 9 months ago
From Radio Netherlands Worldwide: “Does Pakistan get the aid and attention it deserves? The flooding in the north of the country represents a disaster on an unprecedented scale. And yet it seems the international community has not yet woken up the fact and aid efforts are very slow to get off the ground. … On Wednesday [...]
Joseph Robertson started the forum topic Psychic Numbing: Why Does Mass Suffering Induce Mass Indifference? in the group Crisis Policy Forum: 1 year, 9 months ago
‘ Psychic numbing ‘ is a relatively new term, assigned to the phenomenon which shows people tend to feel less urgent compassion, and tend to give less, when the suffering in question is shown to be more systemic and more pervasive, or affecting larger numbers of people. Some psychologists believe it is linked to our intuitive sense [...]
Paul Melzer joined the group Crisis Policy Forum 1 year, 10 months ago
Joseph Robertson posted on the forum topic Sustainable Security: Protecting Against Chaos in the group Crisis Policy Forum: 1 year, 10 months ago
The first key component of sustainable security policy has to be an understanding of how authoritarian structures degrade human freedom, dignity and ingenuity, and to ensure that no security policy rests on aligning with authoritarian elements in order to secure a shortcut to “perpetual peace”. Sustainable security requires planning for a…[Read more]
Joseph Robertson started the forum topic Sustainable Security: Protecting Against Chaos in the group Crisis Policy Forum: 1 year, 10 months ago
Sustainable security is a paradigm shift in foreign policy, economic and defense planning: it entails considering that not only diplomatic relations and military preparedness or alliances, but the full spectrum of connections between our society and the world abroad, determine the degree to which our future security and prosperity can be…[Read more]
Joseph Robertson posted on the forum topic Clean Water Scarce for 3 Billion People Worldwide in the group Crisis Policy Forum: 1 year, 11 months ago
http://www.ecospheretech.com/corporate-info/overview Ecosphere Technologies is “developing eco-friendly technologies to solve major water remediation challenges on land and at sea”. According to their website, they are working to produce “technologies and services to ensure clean water availability in emergency disaster situations, and to enable…[Read more]
Evelyn Winston Perez joined the group Crisis Policy Forum 1 year, 11 months ago
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Joseph Robertson started the forum topic Clean Water Scarce for 3 Billion People Worldwide in the group Crisis Policy Forum: 2 years ago
Clean, safe drinking water is scarce for over 3 billion people across the world. At least 1 billion literally never have access to clean, safe drinking water, putting them at constant risk of severe thirst-related ill health effects, infectious diseases or toxic contamination. Over 100 countries face either sporadic or chronic crisis-level…[Read more]
Riga Listin joined the group Crisis Policy Forum 2 years ago
Joseph Robertson started the forum topic International Response to Congo War: How to Stop the Genocide in the group Crisis Policy Forum: 2 years ago
The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 6.9 million people in 12 years. No war has cost more innocent lives since World War II, and the level of extreme violence, brutality against women, and even the enslavement of families and villages, appears to be escalating. The world’s attention has yet to fully [...]