ISS: Best student essays in 'An Exercise in Worldmaking' 2024/2025

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riday 19 Dec 2025, 09:00 General An Exercise in Worldmaking is a collection of best MA student essays written, selected and edited by the students themselves.

OXFORD Blavatnik School of Government: The Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture: Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

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Delivered by journalist and historian Anne Applebaum Breadcrumb All events The Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture: Autocracy,... 17:30 - 19:00, 27 January 2026

Three things ICAN is looking forward to in 2026

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The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN): As 2026 begins, nuclear risks and the false myths about nuclear deterrence on the rise. ICAN, working with countries and partners across continents, are challenging nuclear weapons and taking our work to the next level. Here are three things we’re looking forward to this year:

Davos 2026: The World Economic Forum's 56th Annual Meeting takes place under the theme ‘A Spirit of Dialogue’

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The World Economic Forum's 56th Annual Meeting (19–23 January 2026) in Davos, Switzerland, gathers leaders across geographies, industries and generations under the theme A Spirit of Dialogue.

Schwab Foundation Awards 2026

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Each year, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship recognizes and supports the world's leading social innovators for their collective efforts in creating a just, equitable and sustainable world for all.

Rethinking security in an interconnected age: Achim Steiner on national security in a world of shared international risks

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As geopolitical tensions rise alongside climate shocks, AI disruption and pandemic risk, former UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner has returned to the Oxford Martin School to rethink what national security really means in the 21st century.

UN chief warns of a world in chaos as impunity and unpredictability spreads

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By Vibhu Mishra 15 January 2026 UN Affairs In his final annual address outlining his priorities, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world is “brimming with conflict, impunity, inequality and unpredictability” – even as international cooperation is fraying at the moment it is most needed.

ICRC: Gaza: Severe winter conditions compound humanitarian crisis for displaced Palestinians

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Severe winter weather in the Gaza Strip has brought new challenges to communities where more than two years of conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead, injured or displaced, and shattered essential infrastructure.

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