Last month I participated in a meeting of a dozen or so foundation leaders and think tankers. We spent two days grappling with, as the invitation put it, the “functions and dysfunctions of the present ...

In Eastern Europe, shifting global orders have been a lived experience for decades. Just over thirty years ago, the end of ...

Narratives matter more than we often admit. They shape how we imagine civil society, what we expect from it, how much ...

Since President Trump released executive order 14169, “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” on inauguration day and the Department of State released guidance putting a freeze on ...

This briefing will highlight the role and contribution of civil society in various sectors that are impacted during a humanitarian crisis. Speakers will shed light on how civil society affects and ...

Civil society is facing unprecedented challenges globally due to escalating conflicts and crises. In 2023, groups that were pivotal in advocating for human rights, offering humanitarian aid and giving ...

Thousands of delegates gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, last week for the UN Civil Society Conference. The gathering was dedicated to the upcoming Summit of the Future, a major UN conference in September ...

Autocrats desire a more autocratic world. A lack of transparency opens the door for greater corruption and kleptocracy and normalizes human rights violations. It also creates new international norms, ...

In 2034, the unified Republic of Indonesia splintered into independent states led by monarchs as the government collapsed under ecological, financial and political crises. Civil society was crushed, ...