Une ville inondée génère des contrats. Un bassin versant sain, qui contribue à prévenir l’inondation, ne génère aucun revenu pour ceux qui l’entretiennent. Le malade rapporte, la santé pas. La réparation est visible dans l’économie. La prévention, elle, peine souvent à trouver un acheteur.
Laugh Your Way to Victory
“As Monty Python skits have always been up there right with Tolkien for me, I knew very well that humor doesn’t just make you chuckle—it makes you think.” (Srdja Popovic)
Systems Thinking: From narrow goals to stewardship
The predominant paradigm that has shaped contemporary economies, education and the narrative of progress is that of efficiency and optimization. How can we broaden our perspective and treat progress not as a linear optimization problem, but as a constant dynamic interaction with the systems around us?
The Civilized Ones
Seen many times against Hamas and Hezbollah over the years, disproportionate retaliation was notably formalized as the Dahiya doctrine. What is the rationale behind it?
“We Have No Choice”
“For everything that happened on October 7, for every person who was killed on October 7, 50 Palestinians must die.” (Aharon Haliva, former IDF intelligence chief) How can war crimes become an avowed strategy?
War on the Palestinian Soul
A colonial power cannot survive without owning the narrative about land and people. By the same token, ethnic cleansing would be impossible if colonial settlers did not convince themselves that a native culture is a subculture that barely exists.