Terrorist attacks have fundamentally reshaped international heritage protection policy. However, global research remains fragmented. While scholars effectively track post-incident destruction and design physical defenses, they…

In order to emphasize the main developments of the current year besides our daily publications on LinkedIn, we hereby present selected material about radicalization and…

Edited by Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDipPolicyinstitute.net12 July 2026 Abstract Trust in AI agents and automation is increasing, but it remains conditional and tightly bounded by…

The Sahel faces overlapping challenges of insecurity, political instability, climate pressures, and geopolitical shifts, requiring adaptive and long-term responses that combine governance, development, resilience, and…

Around the date of the Council of Europe’s third annual No Hate Speech Week—held from 17 to 19 June 2026 — and the International Day…

The Sahel is currently facing a compounding crisis where a security escalation in Mali, but more generally political fragmentation, conflict, and climate shocks touching upon…

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The gist of this edition’s texts is that in Africa’s Sahel and broader dry belt, overlapping crises—water scarcity, climate change, conflict, and high nutritional costs—are…