Entries by paula@hcss-site

Exploring Demographic Shifts: Ageing and Migration in a Deeply Uncertain Dynamically Complex World

Exploring Demographic Shifts: Ageing and Migration in a Deeply Uncertain Dynamically Complex World, a paper produced by Erik Pruyt, Thomas Logtens, Govert Gijsbers, Tim Sweijs and Stephan de Spiegeleire in the context of the TNO Strategy and Change program, won the price for the Best Poster Presentation at the Poster Symposium of the System Dynamics […]

Time for the international community to act in Syria

For almost four months now the Assad regime have been carrying out horrendous violations of human rights and crimes against the Syrian people: houses bulldozed, tanks in the streets, snipers on roof tops, rape, torture, and indiscriminate killing. The death toll is 2000 and rising. Beyond condemnation of the violence the response of the international […]

Recent international policies on Syria continue to lack power

For the past five months Syrian President al-Assad has succeeded in withstanding the largest uprising against his regime in eleven years. Now, in the first days of Ramadan, he has embarked on a military campaign, both of a punitive and pre-emptive nature, leading to approximately two hundred deaths in the last three days alone. This […]

Syria’s Catch-22: a prolongation of the current situation will only increase the Big Uncertainties

Al-Assads’s aggressive maneuvers over the past three days, coinciding with the beginning of Ramadan, the month of spiritual self-reflection, has led to a flurry of policy initiatives in the West, ranging from a power lacking presidential statement by the UN Security Council condemning the violence in Syria, to new sanctions by the EU. Such symbolic […]

Enhancing Ukraine’s Foresight Capacity

The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and the Institute for World Policy in Kyiv, Ukraine have for the past year been engaged in a project on ‘Enhancing Ukraine’s Foresight Capacity’. A number of IWP analysts were trained in the HCSS Metafore-method, participated in some HCSS foresight projects, provided summaries of these projects in Ukrainian […]