Halifax International Security Forum uses video to introduce each plenary panel. These short visual essays use a combination of moving images, still images, and popular music to convey appropriate urgency. The videos, together with the written opinion essays and the panel titles themselves, enhance the topics and create an atmosphere that is conducive to constructive and honest conversations that embrace new ideas and inspire action.
In this @ProSyn opinion piece, @RichardHass contends that with shifts in the global and regional political climates democracy, peace, and prosperity in Europe have begun to become uncertain. bit.ly/2A1pWUL
2 days agoSri Lanka’s supreme court has unanimously ruled the president’s order to dissolve Parliament and hold new elections unconstitutional. Krishan Francis writes in @TIME that this is the first time in Sri Lankan history a presidential act has been challenged bit.ly/2S1l5d4
2 days agoJust 10 days ahead of the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of #Congo, a warehouse fire broke out in the capital destroying nearly 80 percent of the capital’s voting machines @NPR @Colintdywer n.pr/2QuLNhR
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