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Lebanese Citizenship In Crisis

Lebanese people have reached another peak of devastation as the economic crisis badly impacts all citizens from all social classes. Various means are being used to express the accumulated suffering and mistrust among Lebanese. Some people are protesting in the streets peacefully, and others protesting through violence. Some people are active online using all available [...] READ MORE

The United States of America: ‘Building Back Better’

The White House released the "Interim Strategic Directive for the National Security Strategy" as a written guidance, which provides the US administration's preliminary guidance for national security institutions in order to react quickly to foreign and local threats. The document, issued 45 days after US President Joe Biden assumed power, covers the fundamental elements of [...] READ MORE

UNDP’s ‘The Next Frontier’: rethinking development

For a decade or so, the global financial crisis, the climate crisis, the injustice crisis, and the COVID-19 crisis have all demonstrated that the system's stability and resilience are failing. This appears to restrict the future prospects to continuous disaster response rather than human development. Business as usual in education, economics, agriculture, industry, and health [...] READ MORE

Lebanon’s social explosion dilemma

Lebanon is undergoing an unprecedented financial and economic deterioration as the middle class is gradually disappearing, basic needs are becoming increasingly scarce, the unemployment rate is soaring, and brain drain is out of control. People are being pushed to extreme poverty lines. The grievances and sense of insecurity are surging to the peak where the [...] READ MORE

Lebanon’s social explosion dilemma

The future is difficult to foresee, which makes creating ideas like "future ready" and "skills for the future" difficult to apply. The drastic transition brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has given us a new perspective on how future generations should plan for the uncertain.   Growth of technology, digitalization, and the harnessing of data [...] READ MORE