Climate change is an urgent topic of discussion among politicians, journalists and celebrities...but what do scientists say about climate change? Does the da...

In this talk, Monisha Bajaj tells her own personal story about how her family has inspired her work in the field of international educational development, fo...

Noam Chomsky shared remarks on the pitfalls of humanitarian intervention with the Williams College community. A prominent American public intellectual and activist, Chomsky has written and lectured extensively on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, international affairs, and foreign policy.

Bruce Crowther talks about how he inspired by looking at the past to the slave trade as he works to promote the fairtrade. Bruce, included in the former UK P...

Joris Luyendijk is a journalist and a publicist with a banker’s blog on The Guardian. For this episode of VPRO backlight, he dives into the financial brain o...

The humanitarian system is simply not doing a good job in the eyes of the people it aims to help. Christina Bennett, Research Fellow with the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute, lays out a three-point proposal for radical change to create a humanitarian system that is fit to respond to the challenges of both today and tomorrow.