In this podcast series we take a closer look at how climate change adaptation is carried out at the local level in the Global South. In this episode we’ll talk about how adaptation funding for Kenya, ...

Loss and damage funding pledges have reached the ground. This DIIS Blog synthesises insights on programmatic and strategic learnings from early programming experiences. Humanitarian and development ...

As aid budgets shrink, donors and development banks are betting on mobilisation, using limited public money to attract private capital through catalytic funding and blended finance. Most often, ...

In 2015, multilateral development banks unveiled a new development finance formula: ‘billions to trillions’. Aid combined with concessional finance, the argument ran, would catalyse private trillions ...

In this podcast series we take a closer look at how climate change adaptation is carried out at the local level in the Global South. In this episode we discuss legal frameworks and the central ...

The first edition, held in June 2026, took the Global Peace Index as its starting point and examined a world in which conflicts are becoming more internationalised and traditional approaches to ...

Over several decades the priorities regarding military bases in Greenland have shifted back and forth: should they be kept ...

After recent events in Afghanistan and Ukraine, Central Asia has become a crucial region for energy and transport. China, helped by its earlier initiatives in the region, is quickly becoming the ...

The Congolese armed forces (FARDC) sustain a heavy regional deployment through dense, decentralised checkpoint networks. And ...

This decision reflects US and Israeli pressure to end a peacekeeping mission that they say failed to alter Hezbollah’s capabilities. European governments have, however, warned that a rapid UN ...

The geopolitical tensions in Europe have amplified hybrid warfare, with state and non-state actors increasingly targeting critical infrastructure (CI) through military and non-military tactics.

Ethiopia’s rural economy and livelihoods depend on seasonal rainfall. When rains fail or fall out of season, crops fail, ...